The Stream, Hubbard's Hill, Louth

9. The Stream, Hubbard’s Hills, Louth: I love black and white photography and perhaps need to produce more monochrome images. This is one of my favourite black and white images. It started life as a colour digital file, as all my photographs do since I abandoned film two years ago. It has been done thousands of time before, water flowing over stones in a river, but that did not matter to me. I came to Hubbard’s Hills on day trips as a child and have fond memories of the place. I know live nearby and make regular visits with my family. I look at this and it reminds me of my childhood, I also find it satisfying because it records the texture of the rocks and the flow of the water; these always fascinated me as a child. Looking back this is where my love of landscape photography began and because of this photograph will always be one of favourites. For those interested in technical details: Nikon D200 18-200mml lens, ISO 100 .9 (3 stop ND and .3 1stop ND filters) auto white balance. 3 seconds f18. The file was converted to black and white in Photoshop using the Channel Mixer and the shadows and mid tones adjusted with the Colour Balance command.