Lee Orchard Photography

I'm a photographer who loves wildlife, landscape and travel photography. My images are available to buy as prints, and gifts items, like: Mousemats, Coasters, Keyrings and Rulers

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Another Instagram'd HDR

When I went to the War & Peace show, I took many images. A few weeks ago I thought I'd try an experiment with one of the photos.

Firstly I'd created my HDR image, then I thought I'd send it to my phone and run it through Instagram. Instagram has some great filters, and its so easy to use, but it does have one major draw back. Your resulting image ends back being a lot smaller in resolution size. The final image is then only really good for web or printing small.

However the result was really good and even with the resolution being less then the original it is still good enough for coaster. Of course Instagram images are square too!

Here was the result

I posted it to Flickr, and it seemed to be instantly like.

Last week a created a second. I think I'll create a set for use in my coasters.

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Posted with Blogsy

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EBay & Gifts

We have now started uploading our items to ebay, so you can now by our items via ebay.

As more items are added, I will start to add ebay links to the items on the gifts pages, as well as or instead of paypal links (depending on what exists already).

This should make it a lot easier for us to sell and maintain the items and so get more online to buy. Thats the theory anyway!

We have started with

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War and Peace Show 2012

I can't believe its the War and Peace Show again. The year seems to have gone so quick.

I got some great images last year, so it was a bit of a challenge to try and match it.  Although I didn't take as many photos, I think I managed it.  I seem to have lots to still work up.

Here's a few to start with

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"Low Flying" Lanc!

Another photo from 'The Hill' during the airshow.

It was great to see the aircraft take off below us, and gradually bank round and come up over our heads.

  The Lancaster and Spitfire pilot also obilged us with a direct over head pass when the finished there bit and where heading home.

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Airshow from the Hill

I gave it a lot of thought, but decided that this time I would skip going to the airshow. This was partially to do with the weather, but also the cost. The ticket prices had gone up again. So when a neighbour said they where walking to the otherside of the hill we live on, to watch if from there, I thought I'd join him.

It was great to see all the airfield below with some great cloud background. I thought I'd go for more scene and dramatic shots instead of the usual close aircraft images. This was mainly due to the fact the only aircraft that come low over the hill were the Red Arrows and Lancaster.

So here is hte first of the shots from Yesterday.

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Ahh, Venice...

Ahh, Venice How I miss you, Your crumbing walls, Your vivid colours, Canals so green, Buildings so bright, Bridges to islands, Islands to bridges, Alleyways to squares and doors to nowhere.*

* (C) Lee Orchard

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Another New Gallery

Another new Gallery goes live in the Transport Section

It contains images of Propeller Aircraft.

Here is a sample

I hope you like it.

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New Gallery

Yesterday I added a new gallery to the website.

It contains previously unseen images of mine. The gallery is of helicopters, under the Air heading of the Transport section < Click to view

Here is one of the image of the images from the gallery

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Website Updates Continue

The website update continues...

I have now implemented the new changes that allow mobile touch swipe navigation for the photos to the following site galleries:

Mammals Birds & Insects Transport Travel (half done) Creative

The HDR section has been moved to be inside the New Creative section, which includes Monotone, Textured and Selective coloured images aswell.

I now just need to finish the Architecture section and the Landscape section.

I have taken the opportunity to remove some of the older images and in some galleries add new different ones. I've done this to make the galleries more interesting and to make room for new images that will be added after the upgrade.

The main index page has also had an update in the form of a slideshow, so you get to see some images as soon as you hit the site! These contain links to the galleries, so do the menu option across the screen. Clicking on the Menu Title will also load something too.

There is also a Social Media menu with links to all my Social Media area, EG, Flickr, Facebook etc...

Also in progress is a dual function main index page, that will show a mobile formatted page as the existing page isnt very mobile friendly.

Wow, thats quite a bit.

Let me know what you think...

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The Flying Scotsman

A copy of previously unseen photos of The Flying Scotsman have been added to my Photos of #theflyingscotsman added to the trains gallery Trains Gallery

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Lee Orchard Photography on Facebook

Has everyone viewed my Facebook Page? if not, why not take a look now, www.facebook.com/LeeOrchardPhotography and if you like it, Like it!! Please.

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LeeOrchard.com | Photography ∞ Design

LeeOrchard.com goes live. I've finally created a top level website to promote all my services. It called LeeOrchard.com. It contains link and information on everything I do.

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From Blogsy on the iPad

Ok, so this is my first post via my new iPad! I've also bought the Blogsy app as it looked quite cool for blogging, with a great Rich Text Interface, with colours and boldness!!

It also makes it so easy to add photos from different sources.

This is a photo I took a while back on the Isle of Wight and recently converted to black and white. I've just dragged and dropped this from my Flickr feed all via the Blogsy interface.

Now for the moment of truth, save...

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Burnt Out Mini

Taken back in 2003 on a walk around fleet pond, I found this abandoned burnt out Mini. It was taken with my first digital camera, the Fujifilm 6800z.

I recently brought the colours back into the photo more using Topaz Adjust, as they were a bit washed out in the original. It has also brought out more detail in the foliage too.

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Venice Inspiration

After seeing some similar photos on Flickr, I was inspired to try something similar with mine. I had done a textured image of Ronda, but Venice is something totally different!

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0-6-0 Loco at Havenstreet

Haventstreet on the Isle of Wight.

Image was put through topaz adjust, then a few lightroom filters and thats it!

  I was really pleased with the result and have a few versions in different finishes too!

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Popular Image In 500px

It seem my latest photo on 500px is quite popular. At the time of posting this, its had 45 views, 12 votes and a rating of 92.4. It will be interesting to see what it gets to in 24hrs. Sunset over Freshwater Bay. IOW by Lee Orchard