Trains, Mills and Horses...

So I discovered photomatix...

Having had a long standing hatred of the over saturated HDR images where clouds seem to look like trees, I never thought it would be my bag.

However...

I found out that you don't have to process the images to that extent and I quite liked experiementing with the different effects, but I am trying not to get too addicted.

So here are a few examples:

70013 Oliver Cromwell at Par

One for all you train spotters out there. Got up early and headed to Par station where I got a good spot on the bridge to see this steam through.

Forgot that standing on the bridge would mean that I would be in the steam cloud itself, so got a couple of interesting shots of... steam.

The engine was at the back as it was on it's way back upcountry and it didn't stop at the station, so I was pretty pleased that I managed a couple of half decent efforts.

Train spotter info:

70013 Oliver Cromwell is a British Railways standard class 7 (also known as the
Britannia class) preserved steam locomotive.

The locomotive is notable
as one of the four steam locomotives which worked the last steam railtour on
British Rail (BR) in 1968 before the introduction of a steam ban.

(Thanks wikipedia)

Luxulyan Water Mill

We headed to Luxulyan Valley to walk over the viaduct and explore the trail which is part of a World Heritage site because of the amount of old industrial buildings / works that are still there.

This mill used to have a huge water wheel which powered an incline to Joseph Treffry's railway to Pontsmill.

Dirty Horses



Just a couple of dirty old working horses. I experimented with textures on this too, probably a little overdone.

Larger sizes can be seen on my flickr