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I am always on the look out for interesting patterns, colours and textures and during my time on Thursday photographing in and around the Breedon Priory Church Yard I was drawn to an ornate, but very rusty and broken, iron railing surrounding a grave on the edge of the church yard.  This provided a great photographic opportunity which I captured on the X-T1 and 56mm f1.2.  I set the camera to electronic shutter to enable me to use the 56mm at f1.2 to give a shallow depth of field and concentrated the focus on a small part of the frame. Here are some of the results from my short 10 minute photo shoot. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping support this blog - thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------------...

This is a bridle path that leads down the hill to the village of Branston in the Vale of Belvoir. Regular visitors to this will have noticed that I love images with strong lead in lines, which lead the viewing into the image.  This shot does this perfectly, pointing the way to the village of Branston on the hill in the distance. Nikon D800 - Nikon 105mm f2.8G VR micro, 1/100 @ f16, ISO800 - Lee 0.9 ND Grad ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE NEW GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - thank you for helping ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF MACLEAN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CANNOT BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMIS...

Foxton Locks are ten canal locks consisting of two "staircases" each of five locks, located on the Leicester line of the Grand Union Canal about 3 miles west of the Leicestershire town of Market Harborough and are named after the nearby village of Foxton. They form the northern terminus of a 20-mile summit level that passes Husbands Bosworth, Crick and ends with the Watford flight Staircase locks are used where a canal needs to climb a steep hill, and consist of a group of locks where each lock opens directly into the next, that is, where the bottom gates of one lock form the top gates of the next. Foxton Locks are the largest flight of such staircase locks on the English canal system. The Grade II listed locks are a popular tourist attraction and the county council has created a country park at the top. At the bottom, where the junction with the arm to Market Harborough is located, there are two public houses, a shop, trip boat and other facilities. ...