Phil's photos with the keyword: Textures

This was originally a daytime photo of the frozen Leeds-Liverpool canal which didn't turn out the way I intended, so I did a bit of "tweaking" with PicMonkey to add the night sky and turned it into an evening shot using the "opacity" tool in my Nikon NX2 software. The camera used was a Nikon D300s.

Rook (Corvus frugilegus) photographed in Brierfield, England, using a Nikon D90 with a 70-300mm Nikkor DX lens (105-450mm equivalent). Processed using Nikon Capture NX2 (sky effect from PicMonkey). Though resident in Great Britain, Ireland and much of north and central Europe, vagrant to Iceland and northern Scandinavia, it also occurs as an eastern race in Asia where it differs in being very slightly smaller and more efficient on average, having a somewhat more fully feathered face. In the north of its range the species has a tendency to move south during autumn though more southern populations are apt to range sporadically. The species has been introduced to New Zealand, with several hundred birds being released there from 1862 to 1874, though today their range is very localised. (Wikipedia).

Photographed outside Winfields (Outdoor Pursuits) store near Haslingden, UK. This old engine has been parked here for many years...it can be seen on the map in "Satellite View" if you zoom in close.