So I'll start with a few I've taken earlier this year with my Fujifilm S1600 bridge camera on a ride out to the
Derbyshire town of
Belper in February 2017.
Please note, I've reduced the size of all these photographs to quicken the upload process.
The
River Derwent in Belper.
Belper is one of the birth towns of the industrial revolution, a mill town, or was a couple of centuries ago.
Also from
Belper, below, another of the
River Derwent, showing the old cotton mill building, taken downstream from the previous two.
Lastly from Belper (for this post at least) another showing the bridge in the left centre of the first image, but closer to it and from a different angle.
Next, a few from the spring with my , new to me, Canon EOS 1100D DSLR camera; I was still getting used to it at the time.
Before photographing the wedding in April 2017 I spent some time walking along sections of the rivers Trent in Nottinghamshire and
Derwent in Derbyshire playing with the new camera to get a feel for it.
The image of
Beeston Weir, on the
River Trent in
Nottinghamshire, above, was taken using a Cokin P ND filter on my Canon DSLR and converted to greyscale in post processing. Among my first attempts at long exposure shots with the new camera, and the best of a bad bunch.
The two below are from March 2017 taken with the Canon DSLR.
Trent Lock, where the
Erewash Canal meets the
River Trent near
Long Eaton in
Derbyshire.
Trent Lock itself is where the three counties of
Derbyshire,
Nottinghamshire, and
Leicestershire meet.
I particularly like the way the white building n the first image is reflected on the water of the canal.
From Trent Lock I walked upstream along the River Trent to
Sawley, Derbyshire.
The first Image below is of
Sawley Marina which, being on the south side of the River Trent, is actually in
Leicestershire.
Walking a bit further upstream from the
marina I managed to capture the next two images.
The first is looking over the River Trent towards
Sawley, taken in Leicestershire, but the river acts as the natural boundary between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire; Sawley is in Derbyshire. The water in the foreground of the first one is actually flooding in a field.
The second one is on the Leicestershire shore of the river a little downstream of the bridge in the previous image.
I think that's enough for this post, I'll show you a few from my walking along the River Derwent, and of the wedding photographs from April 2017 in the next post.
Thank you for looking.