Vesna Armstrong Photography

Last month, when we stayed at Ponden Hall, I couldn't but spend some time in Haworth as well. On the second day, after a walk on Stanbury Moor to Ponden Kirk, we went down to the village where the famous Brontë Sisters lived and wrote, and where we shall live too before very long hopefully. We parked as usually in one of the small lay by car parks on Cemetery road, and walked the short distance to the part-flagged path in the field leading to the Brontë Parsonage. We passed Rabbit Hill, as the locals popularly call this mound which belongs to the remains of Dimples quarry. With its lone tree to one side it makes for a lovely scene, and every time I am there I have to reach for my camera. View of West Lane and Worth Valley beyond from the path to the Parsonage. The field behind the Parsonage. Once in the village we did a quick tour of some of the shops; had a couple of drinks at the Fleece; dinner at the Old White Lion, and then before going back to Ponden H

Yesterday, after some shopping on Main Street and a lovely lunch with a friend in The Old White Lion, one of my favourite pubs in Haworth, I headed for Penistone Hill Country Park to do a bit of moorland photography and just enjoy the wonderful and inspiring landscape I love so much. It was nearly 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was still shining and getting lower in the sky, and there were also big white clouds in the blue skies. The lighting was beautiful and varied with the sun often slipping behind the huge clouds and then showing its face again. I love being out with my camera on a day like that when you get a whole gamut of different light within as little as an hour or two. I edited the photos with just basic and gentle tweaks in Lightroom, intending to just enhance the scenes as I found them rather than changing anything about them. The main purpose of my visit to the moor was to take photos of the heather, which is at its best at this time of y

Time for a new still life post. This image was intended as a summer still life, but I shot it back in May when the weather was much more summery than it is now. My lavender, which I used in this image, was in its first and best bloom; the warm and sunny days made me dream of walking in long grass wearing a hat similar to the one in the photo and of lazy afternoons spent reading a good book in the garden. The writing quill from the Brontë Parsonage shop adds balance to the composition as well as allusion to the literary sisters who are my constant muses in everything creative I do. I processed the image with just a quick and subtle texture layer from Jessica Drossin 's "Wuthering Heights" texture pack. I am particularly pleased with how the colour of the background came out: the grey-green shade seems to work well with the red, pink and purple in the rest of the image.