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Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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29 he/him Welsh living in Yorkshire Too many cameras, not enough photos Ask me about aerochrome Ask @natalyasmith.bsky.social about pickled goods

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Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · Dec 30

I took the infrared camera out into the fog and got some of my favourite #aerochrome shots I've taken so far

The combination of the otherworldly colours, the ominous fog and the beautiful Welsh forest was a match made in heaven

📍Lasgarn Forest, Abersychan

#infrared #photography #cymru #wales

A river with a small weir for trout and a lawn off the river bank. The photo is taken using colour infrared which renders the foliage in shades of pink and the water off the river a deep inky blue/black. Moss on the rocks sticking out of the river is also pink

A photo of branches of a conifer tree in front of a path leading into the distance. Water drops are on the ends of the branch due to the thick fog condensing on them.

There is a bank on either side of the path that is overgrown with vegetation and tree trunks at the top of the bank.

The photo is taken in colour infrared in an aerochrome emulation so the vegetation is all pink

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Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · 18h

People would literally rather burn down the ten trees and waste a swimming pool's worth of water for an answer rather than read a fucking web page and actually learn something.

The AI companies will have a lot to answer for

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Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · 9d

it's not the greggs ones, but a few years back the algorithm was relentlessly suggesting me giant human sized cushions in the shape of a bloomer loaf

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Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · 9d

We've been extremely busy at work for the past few months and so I haven't had time to look at random rightmove houses, so thanks for supplying the goods

Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · 11d

Feels strange to have an infrared photo without a pitch black sky

📍North Lees Hall, Peak District

#infrared #photography

An old stone hall behind an old stone wall.

Photo taken in infrared, so the leaves on the trees are bright white.

Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · 11d

It was great for photos, but maybe not the ideal when we'd gone hiking for the views 😅

A misty plateau with visibility around 20m. The photo is taken in infrared so penetrated the mist more than you could actually see in person.

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Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · 12d

We climbed up into the clouds. These rocks are usually only around 10m above the slope below, but in this weather the drop looked like it could have been endless.

#infrared #photography #fog

📍Robin Hood Cave, Stanage Edge, Peak District

a black and white infrared photo of a couple stood at a rock edge looking out and down into the fog

a black and white infrared photo of a cliff face enveloped in fog

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Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · 14d

WOW that's a take wtf

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Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · 17d

Love the boat, what a show off! Really makes the image that extra bit special 😁

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 17d

Anyway, have a photography timeline cleanse.

Mostar (2025)
Hopfen am See (2025)
Skye (2023)
Cornwall (2023)

#Photography #Travel #LandscapePhotography

a small boat swirling round in the river in Mostar taken from a height. Some of the town can be seen on the right and a mosque in the background

A small white, red-roofed chapel on very green grass. There's a stormy sky above and lightning is lighting up a patch of the sky over the mountains

An old stone bridge with three arches crossing a shallow river. In the background there are mountains and it's very cloudy, with the last of the light being seen just above them through the clouds

An inlet with cliffs that make the water look like a zigzag shape. There are two people on the left, nearest cliff watching the water, giving the scene perspective

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Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · 17d

What has better drainage, the garden or the cursed unconnected downstairs loo?

Your house stories always stress me right out, I seriously don't know how you manage.

I had a full on breakdown when our mains pipe developed a small weep 😭

Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · 18d

bsky.app/profile/olde...

Thankfully I got a very long thread in response!

This fell two weeks before we had the recent spate of heavy rain.

Local updates from council inspections also confirmed that it had been leaning for quite some time. This tragedy happened over many years.

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · Sep 7

Okay, here is my *speculative and not authoritative and do not quote me on this I am not speaking in my professional capacity* opinion on this, based on the very little information that I have

my guess is bad repairs

Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · Sep 6

@oldenoughtosay.com
I'm sorry to bother you like this, but sadly you are the Local Internet Building Knower and I must ask: do you have any clue or mild guesses for what could have happened here?

Apparently the front just fell off about half an hour ago. Thankfully nobody was nearby or hurt.

Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · 21d

I'll have to come back to shoot it again on film

Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · 21d

Checked one off the photography bucket list: Abandoned car in a remote location ✅

📍Hathersage, Hope Valley

#photography

A photo of a green abandoned car next to a prefab shed

The car is overgrown with brambles

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Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · 22d

I'm gonna operate on the assumption that yes it is 😭 truly scarring stuff

Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · 22d

There was One Very Specific Reddit Story that taught me the lesson that if someone says "don't Google this" they are not kidding.

You said don't Google and I listened 👍

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Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · 22d

Our local Tesco have had them since September 1st 💔

Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · 22d

Sometimes I think about all the stuff that just got thrown out and get incredibly sad.

I'm glad you gave all that stuff a home.

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Natalya Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @natalyasmith.bsky.social · 22d

Starting to accept that autumn may in fact be on the way, lads.

#Nature #Woodland #DigitalPhotography #NaturePhotography #Yorkshire

Photo of a green leaf, starting to turn brown, with sunlight shining through it.

Photo of a rosehip shining in the setting sunlight.

Photo of some wispy willowherb lit by the setting sun.

Photo of a tree mostly in darkness, partially lit by the setting sun.

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Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · 25d

Phone camera + R72 filter is certainly a Look™

#infrared #photography

A black and white image of Kenilworth Castle taken through an R72 infrared pass filter on a mobile phone

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Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · 28d

Every year when I was a child I would buy my German grandfather a box of coconut macaroons.

And then I would have to buy a second because I had inherited his love for them and opened the first box.

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Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · 29d

Something something no because you actually did work

In case of bluesky commenters: For the avoidance of all doubt, this is a joke

Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · Sep 10

Going to watch the space so hard I'll need a telescope! That would be fantastic!😱

Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · Sep 9

A couple more from my roll of Kentmere 100 that I shot for #wwhfd25 #halfframe

It was fun to take the Pen EE out for the first time in a while.
I've also got a mystery roll of Kentmere 400 that I found in it to develop and I have no idea what's on that one.

Sunlight reflecting off a window onto a pavement

A series of scaffolding stairs as seen from the top deck of a bus

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Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · Sep 9

That film has a LOT of base fog, I think that's probably as good as you're gonna get without something like benzotriazole to reduce the base fog.

Chris Barne 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @christotheb.bsky.social · Sep 8

Both people did survive uninjured, yes. The younger man with the headphones only stopped because the old lady turned around which probably saved his life. before the view is obscured you can see him start to run.