Spring

I think spring may have nearly arrived. Although that's what I thought yesterday. This week I finally got back out into the fields for work. After the winter this is a blessed relief.

Anyway on my trip back from Hampshire, I decided to stop off at The Devils punchbowl at Hindhead. Everyone talks about all the great wonders of the world, and they are all truly wonderful, but we have in Surrey one of our very own. The view from the top is amazing.

This doesn't do it true justice, but does give you an idea. Below are some more images shot there.

The week before last took me to Guildford and amazingly the sun came out again, allowing me to get these shots at Woodbridge meadow, which as far as I can see is in the throws of being renovated, however they have installed some interesting Sculptures.

Certainly an interesting place to visit and also right by the river

RedhillAlbion Vs Glebe Tigers

Redhill Albion 3- Glebe tigers 1

Now the weather has improved, wethe lads are backing playing again, last weekend saw them up against Glebe tigers.

Goals were scored by Ryan O'donovan, Ryan Stevens and Ben Senior each scoring one.

This puts Redhill in second place, trailing by 5 points, but with two games in hand, so there is still everything to play for.

Technical talk

Over the past few months I have been asked on numerous occasions to do some photography at social events, and the comment I alway getis , "Any chance you could take a few shots and then just bung them on a disk". The trouble is when it comes to processing it takes more than just bunging them on a disk. Below is an example of a shot that has been treated in two different ways.

The First image is produced by merely pressing auto exposure on the image proceesor. The Second has been adjusted using the various tools in the progra

mme. As you can see spending more time produces much better results.

First the Snow now the Rain

The last few weeks have really thrown up some interesting weather, great for pictures. This week it was the turn of the rain.

Swollen rivers producing flooding. These were the scenes on Wednesday on the river mole at Flanchford Bridge.

On Friday, I worked on an assignment direct related to the floods. A shoot for Mercedes Benz

In the past the Brookland site was prone to flooding, So when the complex was built in 2006, special flood defense measures were put in place to stop the River Wey, causing the flooding damage. This was achieved by creating channels and soak aways in three different locations . The first being the 4x4 track, the second the main centre skid pan and if required the land at the bottom of the site

As you can see these proved extremely successful, and only the places that were suppose to flood did

The skid pan full of water with the building intact, Along with the Brooklands museum and all the houses

The 4X4 track with a lot more water than usual

Snowy days

Life has been very cold after the last few days and rather quiet work wise. Anyway with all the snow it presented itself with lots of picture opportunities.



Here are some of them.


This is the brook that runs through Earlswood looking rather cold,



Emlyn road in the 09 snow

St Mary's Church in Reigate, nestling in the snow

This is what the snow is all about. Although some warmer weather would be good now especially for the Football.

Albion Vs Otford FC

The team managed to get out this week, just before the snow came down.

Anyway here is the report and pictures.

Otford 0 - Redhill Albion 3 - Under 9’s

3-2-1 back in the room! Redhill juniors conquered Otford for the second time this season and this was no mean feat.

The style and skill of Redhill shone through on a cold and dismal Sunday morning despite having two penalties being awarded against them.

Case-Green spectacularly saved both penalties along with a number of other key stops, merited his lad of the match nomination. The saved penalties were key moments and essentially laid the foundation for this particular win.

The interplay between Senior, Budgen and Stevens was something to behold with Stevens displaying excellent skill throughout the game – It has been a long time coming but worth the wait!!

There was a rake of shots on target with three of them finding the back of the net. The three goals were split between Senior (2) and Stevens (1).

Lad of the match this week was presented to Case-Green for his great hands.
Report Gary Stevens