The Film Noir Experience

Occasionally, I do things that do not involve reading, learning, studying, or job seeking. One of those things I do is photography. I have not done it in awhile. My last big push to document Cardiff was to snap some shots of the lovely graffiti in the area. (I task that I will need to head out on again, as there is some new stuff that is interesting.) I headed over to the park today and got a few shots of the trees beginning to turn.  

None of them really turned out as I hoped, but they are at least something I can work with.  The Roath Park Rec is a gated area that has a small rose garden, tennis courts, and bowling greens.  This is where I headed in the early afternoon.  (It is right across from my flat, so that made it easier.)  I first hit the roses.

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And, then I moved on to more trees.  My favorite of all of these, cropped here for your enjoyment, contained a squirrel.

  The lighting at this point wasn't very good and my battery died right after the shot so I wasn't able to blind the poor guy with a strobe.  Also, as I got a little closer the squirrel clocked me and ran up the tree.  But, you can see the little guy in silohuette in the middle of the right bit of the V in the tree. 

After I got home, I had some fun in photoshop with some of the photos.  As it turns out, the colors are spectacular yet even though its autumn as things have just starting turning and leaves have just started falling.  To be fair, I don't remember a ton of spectacular autumn colors last year.  What I remember, mostly, is that it is cold and grey.  So, being me I'm impatient.  I wanted fall colours now.  So, here is my favourite of the ones with which I've been mucking about.

 Well, I tried, but it apparently doesn't want to show up.