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An earlier shot taken from the same tiny window in my attic room at the Acacia. This was a short time later.

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And now for something completely different!

What am I doing posting a kidnapper's number one potion of choice? Don't worry it is not mine! These bottles were in one of the labs at my employer. You wouldn't believe what goes into making photo inkjet paper!

Taken on a HTC Android and lacking any Hipstamatic / Instagram type apps I've edited and cropped to square in Lightroom 4 Beta!

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This is the view from the attic window in the lovely l'Acacia hotel in Marly, near Fribourg in Switzerland. The smoke stack is from the huge ILFORD site, formerly Ciba-Geigy.

This was a tricky one to compose as the attic room only has a very small, narrow skylight which meant balancing my tripod on a table and suffering the -20 C cold blowing in! The sky was a beautfiul red at the horizon and the street lights give a real yellow glow to the small town at night.

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I've just been (Jan 24th 2012) onto the Guardian 'Been There' competition website after remembering I had entered the November 2011 competition with the above picture. The theme was solitude so I thought it worked well. Unfortunately I didn't win but it was shortlisted.

A lone fisherman stands on his stilt facing out to sea as an early evening storm came in.

There appeared to be two types of stilt fishermen in Sri Lanka. The more common ones had stilts close to shore and fished facing the sand and without bait by moving their rods in the water. The guy in this picture was further out to sea and faced out towards the ocean. He also appeared to use a different technique. Rumour had it that he was after a different type of fish (bigger ones) than the guys closer to shore!

The afternoon winter sun in Delamere Forest, Cheshire.

Processed using the new LR4 beta.

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