Amelia's photos

Last year the Marches School Year 10 GCSE Art students had a brilliant morning at the Welsh Walls helping commemorate the centenary of World War 1 by putting together this amazing silhouette painting of soldiers ready for the Wilfred Owen Festival.

Today's challenge: Take a photo through a glass pane. For example, into or out of a room. That can be a window of its own or a shop window... or another choice. Let's keep post-processing to a minimum this week. No post processing at all. The PiP shows another idea.

Flanagan and Allen - The Umbrella Man

Today's Sunday Challenge: Rework a photograph from your archives that has not previously been posted to TSC, NTSC or The Scavenger Hunt. Things that cross was a challenge, I can't remember when, but I posted a canal bridge. I had taken photos of steel struts which were being used to stabilise a canal bank during restoration, which weren't good enough for that week's challenge. The original is a very boring photo. I used Photoshop to remove the colour. I then used Pic Monkey to make a 'reflection' which is automatically a square format. Back to Photoshop I chose the 'distort and spherize' function, then the 'bi-colou'r filter. The doctored photo bears absolutely no resemblance to the original, apart from 'things that cross'.

I had just lined this shot up nicely, no traffic and no people, when suddenly this road worker stepped right in front of me. Well - I couldn't wait all day.

The Sunday Challenge this week is to shoot anything you like but from a low angle.

This week in SSC: Let's use a "Shallow Depth of Field". Along a narrow pathway separated by a barbed wire fence from a country road, this was an ideal place to use a shallow depth of field photo. The road and fence almost disappear.

Gannets seemed to be the most abundant species on the cliffs, but they are comparatively large and easy to see. other species included razor bills, kiitiwakes, guillemots and fulmars + rock doves etc. I didn't spot and choughs.

These puffin 'burrows' were about a third of the way down the cliffs, and just within the zoom distance of my lens. The cliffs are chalky and seem to be held together by guano.

As far as i could see these 2 crevices were interlinked on the cliff face. There seemed to be 2 puffins going in and out of here. The Bempton cliffs are steep and there was plenty of puffin activity at sea level according to a guy with an adjusted telescope. He let me have a look and sure enough the little birds were quite plentiful there, but I couldn't recoginise them without the telescope. These puffin 'burrows' were about a third of the way down the cliffs, and just withing the zoom distance of my lens. The cliffs are chalky and seem to be held together by guano.

Having reached the age of 77 and never having seen a puffin, I was delighted to see these nesting in crevices on the cliffs at Bempton.