A walk in Burntstump Country Park

In a desperate attempt to solve Ruby's 'car sickness', we bought a car 'dog guard' and decided she should travel in the boot of the car with a comfy 'dog quilt / blanket' combo.

We've tried it out over the past few days and she seems to quite like travelling in the boot (I might add we have a 5 door hatchback, so when I say boot it just means she has a nice bit of the car to herself.

On Thursday morning, we drove to Arnold Burntstump Country Park and for a brisk mid morning walk and photo shoot opportunity.

This is Jane and Ruby, walking through the woods. It's quite a grainy monochrome conversion.....not much light made it into the woods, so the ISO level was bumped up. I tweaked the channel mixer in GIMP and seem to have stumbled upon an almost infra red conversion.

My two weeks 'post wedding home holiday / vacation' is now finished and it's back to work on Monday to shed loads of work !

[Meg]

fantastic shot....love the tone!

[Phil Howcroft]

@megmills thank you meg ...i think it may be a tad too grainy though :)

[Maggiemae]

Lovely tall trees here to walk under, my favourite sort of walk! We had a car sick dog and I found short distances, getting out for short walks, which he loved, seemed to help!

[Pat Knowles]

This could almost be a winter shot Phil....I like this in b/w & those trees trunks show up really well. Little Ruby is staying close at heal like a good girl too! So much better when you can take your dog with you for an outing!

[Meredith B]

What a lovely scene, captured well by you, despite the lack of light. I think that lack of light makes for some wonderful atmosphere. :)

[Judith Johnson]

Glad to hear you've sorted out Rub's preferred way to travel! Gosh this looks almost wintry! I guess it's the b&w

[Kerri]

Beautiful

[Sue Wilde]

This is quite lovely and sort of old wordly

[Sue]

Lovely scene, works beautifully in b&w Phil

[Jennifer C]

love this scene and processing, great that Ruby can go on outings with you

[Mike]

Like this and glad Ruby's better in the car...Car sickness is no fun, but at least if you're a human sufferer you can ask to stop and get out...

[Judith Greenwood]

The work doesn't disappear in your absence does it?! Ah well - good to know they need you. Good news for Ruby - I'm having terrible trouble getting Monty in the boot since we went to Northumberland and he had to go on the seat next to Rachel - now he thinks that's where he should always travel!

[Phil Howcroft]

@judithg thanks judith....well you cannot blame monty for preferring sitting next to rachel as opposed to the boot :)

@caddick thanks mike , we did another drive out again this morning

@jenrobcarr thanks jennifer :) ruby liked her outing :)

@redpants thanks sue, B&W is a great genre and i know you like B&W from your posts :)

@swilde i see your old worldly sue

@busylady judith you are right the scene does resemble winter

@doyouseewhatisee thanks meredith, the lack of light has made some nice grain in the shot

@happypat thanks pat, yes so much better when a whippet is beside you :)

@maggiemae thanks maggie :) , wooded walks are atmospheric

[Juliette Packham]

nice shot Phil - and glad Ruby likes her new travelling space. Bah to going back to work, still, it means you can look forward to the next time you have a holiday!