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Around with Dave

            Just occasionally, in fact much less often than is healthy for me, I'm invited to step out of the landscape and seascape views that I've come to regard as my comfort zone, and try something different. On Wednesday, this involved wandering around the edge of a local reservoir in the company of my brother Dave. I hadn't seen him for nine weeks of course, and because of various factors that make it easier for me to get about than him, I reasoned our reunion might be on the patch near his home that he'd been contentedly wearing out on foot since the world was forced to slow down quite a lot. 

It meant that I'd be entering "Dave World," the land where you look for pattern and form, texture and colour, light and shadow along the ground in front of you as you attempt to unravel its mysteries. It's an unfamiliar world for those of us who live for the majesty and drama of the grand vista. 

I need to explain what happens in normal times. We'll arrive at a local beauty spot with an engaging focal point at which to level our cameras as the sun gradually sinks and colours the sky. Lee and I will usually gravitate onto more or less the same spot, elbows clashing and whoever found it last complaining with "I see you've bagged the best spot as usual." Quite how we got around Iceland last summer without either of us ending us at the bottom of a cliff or swan diving from the top of a world renowned waterfall complete with camera and tripod I'm not certain. While all of this jocularity persists, Dave has usually vanished, pointing his camera in the opposite direction with happy abandon because he's found a puddle with some leaves in it. Lee and I will look at each other, scratch our heads and one of us will mutter "what's he seen now?" and a day later Dave will have produced a masterpiece to wide acclaim, while we're doing our best to eliminate lens flare and lift shadows from our nondescript efforts before we give up on them. It's happened quite a lot you know.

The good thing about Dave World is that you can enter it almost anywhere. You just need to seek out patterns in the small details around you and you've arrived. Here is a collection of leaves, catkins (possibly - don't quote me) and a lone feather, surrounded by dark water at the edge of the reservoir. Dave would process it very differently I fancy, but apart from the fact that this is my interpretation of the scene I found before me, I can't work out exactly how he does it anyway. Dave World is a fun if often confusing place. Give it a try for yourself, and see how you like it.

Happy Friday everyone.

Taken in: UK / England / Mabe (show map)

Taken on: May 27, 2020

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, f/11.0, 0.3 sec, 57mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

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Exposure Time:	0.3
Focal Length:	57mm
ISO:	200
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Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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White Balance:	Auto
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