City Walk - Photography Week 26 (2016)

Leaving the family shopping in Nottingham, I went searching for some urban landscapes along the city canal and the River Trent. With no particular objective in mind, I ended up with an eclectic panel of images selected for their colours, patterns, angles, and some stylised processing:

Buildings

The city incinerator (second image displayed) probably deserves a harsh black and white treatment whilst the tones and shapes of the other two buildings worked best with a grainy mono finish:

Canal Reflections

The city canal is more of a modern waterside these days with many new buildings. The reflections in the water are forever changing depending on the strength of the wind, the light, or perhaps a passing boat:

Metal & Rust

At one point on the canal there is stretch of metal wall with some great rust colours and patterns. Unfortunately, it started to rain as I lined up the camera so I headed for some shelter having only managed a couple of compositions: 

Meadow Lane Bridge

I particularly liked the patterns and colours of the brickwork under the Meadow Lane canal bridge.

Trent Bridge

There are some soft tones in the stone embankment near to Trent Bridge:

City Ground Angles:

Across Trent Bridge is the City Ground, home of Nottingham Forest football club:

River Walk

The river walk continues passed the football ground towards Trent Fields and the National Water Sport Centre at Holme Pierrepont:

HDR

High Dynamic Range software combines images with different exposures to obtain detail in the shadows as well as highlights. Occasionally a subject suits this type of processing: