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A couple of weeks ago my girl friend and myself went to falmouth to move some of her stuff into her new house. While we were there we went to walk around the castle and i took this photograph. I left it un-edited for a while but i decided to make it black and white and sharpen the image up. I think it works pretty well as black and white.

I've learned something about black and white over the last couple of days. Not only from trying to use it in my own photos but i have been looking at lots of different photoblogs, that are far superior to my blog, and come to the conclusion that it doesn't always work well. The skill is to pick out the ones that do work.

Unlike on the last couple of posts, there wasn't much of a process in figuring out what worked well for this photo. Mainly becuase i was actually happy with what the end result of my fiddling was.

Falmouth Times

So after the lovely day we had in the car the day before, the weather was pretty miserable the next day. But it didn't spoil the day.

Even though the weather wasn't great, it did give me this great photo, so it's all good! Throughout the day we got soaked in that miserable type of drizzle that you get only in the UK. After venturing out of the harbour we walked along the scenic drive and hit the castle.

The castle was held as a base for combating smuggling. Then in more recent history, as a coastal defence in World War 1 and 2. From the top of the castle, you could see all of Falmouth and the surrounding countryside. I reckon the view from top would have been great if there wasn't so much mist enshrouding the view.

After walking around the castle and experiencing the daily sounding of the gun at midday, we headed back to the harbour. After a hard days walking around, we had a really hearty dinner of pie and chips. Just what we needed.

After a Long Drive...

...it's always great to jump on the beach and soak up the sun. It's always surprising that after a long-ish (3 and 1/2 hours or so) car drive, how cramped up you get. Ok my car is a little rust box and you can't swing a cat in it, but she does do the job excellently. I am going to sorely miss her when i have to sell her.

Anyways, we arrived at our destination safely and decided, while waiting for the key to arrive, to get on the beach and soak up some sun. Well i can't stay still for any extended period of time so we made and my girl friend named...

...Geoff. Isn't he smashing. When we left, we couldn't take him with us but we did keep his nose. It was the least we could do to keep Geoff alive. R.I.P Geoff. Before we left, we had time to make my girl friend some new feet, toesies included!