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Filey, Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge

Serenity Beach

January 20, 2015 Carl Milner 4 Comments

Serenity Photography by Carl Milner. Filey Beach

Serenity Beach

I was asked how do you embody Serenity in a photograph, we’ll this one was is easy for me, the beach at Filey on a cold winters day is a place of utmost tranquility, peacefulness and serenity, especially when it’s secluded, apart from the odd dog walker, which is exactly what I was doing on the day I took these photos while my nine year old Jack Russell ran around with the boundless joy of a puppy…I guess she was having a serenity moment as well.

The real beauty for me of this serene beach in the harshness of winter, it allows you to switch off completely from the outside world, and soak up the beach and become one with the sounds, smells and scenery stretched out in front of you… My pure heaven.

Serenity Photography by Carl Milner

The Winters Beach

Serenity Photography by Carl Milner

Serenity on Winters Beach

Serenity Photography by Carl Milner

The Winters Beach at Filey

Serenity Photography by Carl Milner

Filey, Photography

Lumia Landscapes

July 16, 2013 Carl Milner 20 Comments

Brimham Rocks

Firstly let me say a few weeks ago I was total Apple product ‘Fan-Boy’, but as a Photographer, the camera element of the iPhone never really lived up to my expectations, I wanted something I could really play with the settings, and although camera phone technology is moving on so fast at the moment, so much so I thought it’s not going to be long before this kind of phone hits the market and allows us photographers to really capture ‘DSLR’ quality images. but now it seems that time has already come with the Carl Zeiss lens and PureView technology Nokia are implementing with their Lumia range of phones, it’s a true camera-phone built with Photographers in mind, the great manual controls of up to ISO 3200, +2 and -2 exposure values and white balance adjustments. So with a little playing and tweaking of these settings, do they really enable you to get DSLR quality photographs?

North Yorkshire Wolds

I managed to get hold of one with a little help from the Team at Nokia Connects, they armed with the New 925 Lumia with its 8.7 MP camera to see what my photography skills could make of it. Once it arrived I started to do the usual random shots, but then I decided to set a ‘theme’ to capture over a period of weeks, my aim was to photograph the different spaces I travelled within the beautiful Yorkshire Landscape, which is at times so vast and unending, but at other times so microscopic, so I’ve also attempted to photo-document the space it sits in as well to convey an appreciation of this vast scenery.

Ilkley Moor Landscape

The results are mostly panoramic vistas (inspired by the work of Ansel Adams) using the in-built Panorama Software, and then taken into the Window Phone Creative Studio app which has tons of neat little features for the final adjustments.

Creative Studio Edit

Micro Landscape

The North Yorkshire Worlds

I hope you like the final images, as I had a total blast taking them with this Lumia 925 phone, so much so that I can hardly put it down, and its seems I’m ‘converted’ to this micro-camera technology and have now started leaving the DSLR at home when I’d normally take it with me on ‘any’ of our travels.

The Wolds

Eccup Reservoir

Filey Brigg Lumia Landscape

View from Ilkley Moor

Brimham Rocks

Roundhay Park Barrans Lake

Bar Tat

Ilkley Moor Vista

Ilkley Moor

Ilkley River Wharfe

River Wharfe

Brimham Rocks

North Yorkshire Wolds

Brimham Rocks

The Dancing Bear at Brimham Rocks

Brimham Rocks

Fields of Harrogate

Brimham Rocks

Fields of Harrogate

Humanby Flowers

Harrogate Cenotaph Lumia Landscape MilnersBlog @Carl Milner 2013

Barrans Lake at Roundhay

My Garden Vista

Roundhay Park

Humanby Church

Humanby Village

Humanby Church Colour Pop

City Life at Park Sq Leeds

Barrans Lake at Roundhay

Roundhay Park Woods

Filey Bay

Filey Brigg

Roundhay Park

Filey, Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections

December 1, 2012 Carl Milner 19 Comments

Night Reflections on Filey Beach

Reflections at night can create amazing photos under wet conditions and what better place than a beach just after the tide has gone out. So for this Weekly Photo Challenge Reflections, my subject is Filey beach with Moon Reflections. (one day-time beach reflection shot as well)

Filey is a place I go to reflect and unwind from the rat-race of city life in Leeds, it’s where I can totally ‘switch-off’ and just soak up the smells and sounds, these may only be for a fleeting moments, but they charge my soul batteries my months.

Filey Brigg at Night

Filey Bay at Night

Beach Storm Reflections

Filey Promenade

Bay from the Brigg

Night Reflections

Filey Promenade

Moon Reflection on Filey Bay | Dec 2012

Other Filey Blogs of mine | St Oswalds | Fisherman’s Friend | Scenic Route

Family, Filey, Landscapes, Nature, Photography

Good Morning Filey

April 12, 2012 Carl Milner 10 Comments

Filey’s People

You’ve probably guessed by now I have a special place in my heart for the unspoilt and un-commercialised seaside town of Filey on the East Yorkshire coast, for me one its most endearing qualities is its people, and how friendly they are, no more so than on a morning whilst they are preparing for the hustle and bustle of tourism to kick in. I’ve noticed this greater since getting my little ‘mans-best-friend’, she really loves its beach and getting up for an early morning walk for the papers, no matter where we stop, or how far away it is, we’ll wander of into town ‘rain or shine’ …recently we even did a 5.30am walk ‘excited doggie’, despite this, it’s on these walks that you get to meet the ‘real’ and friendly people of Filey, I don’t think I’ve actual met someone who’s not is willing to say hello back or even propose the hello first. This is such a delightful character for its population of nearly 7000, something which my suburb town of CrossGates (with its meagre population 2200) doesn’t seem to have.

Over the Easter break we encamped again in the beautifully refurbished Abbots Leigh Guest House for 3 days of R&R, under the friendly control of Stephanie and Chris, who like me share a great passion for the art and heritage of Filey. Over these days I managed to grasp a few special ‘me-times’ to wander again with ‘Trusty the Camera’, doing a 3 hour night shoot (which I’ll blog about later) and a wet and wild day on the beach which provided some profoundly atmospheric scenes to capture.