I used the trip to try editing with the new iPhoto on iPad.

Finishing touches (the frame) were done on the computer at home.

The crowds were out in the city centre.

But the promenade was also popular, people mostly just sitting and enjoying the sun, busy, but not noisy.

The presets in iPhoto work quite well for retro style photos.

The default settings for the watercolour effect work quite well, especially with bold, saturated colours.

These three photos were taken on the stretch between Clapham and Thornton-in-Lonsdale.

The weather was a bit cloudy, though quite bright and the colours were quite bold, particularly the grass.

In this final photograph I took some post processing liberties, adjusting the colours (the grass was really green).

I didn’t have time to venture into the Dales proper. That will have to wait for another ride (and I will take my tripod for that).

As in many emerging economies, the a lot of production chain was on display. Workers could be seen through doorways sewing together garments and shoes. Shops displays presented the full range of commodities needed for manufacture, cloth, buttons, zips, soles of shoes, insoles, etc. Manufacture and retail does leave a lot of rubbish though.

Collecting the rubbish is an important job, ask anyone who has lived through a strike by rubbish collectors. I suspect the job is much less unpleasant in the garment industry than in, say, the food and entertainment area, if only because these fabric scraps didn’t smell.

On this team there were three workmen, and one other person either leaving rubbish or sorting through rubbish others had left.

Fabric scraps filled the skip as well as the huge bags on the other side of the street.

I recently had a summer vacation and spent a lot of it taking photographs. I discovered that as it is true for learning any subject, with photography some concentrated time, with a purpose, the right balance of reading, thinking, writing and practice are essential to improving techniques.

Given that sharing ideas is an important incentive to develop them properly, I’m testing how this theme works with photos.

The theme is from The Theme Foundry (thethemefoundry.com) and I’m currently testing the free vesion and if it works nicely will pay the upgrade fee for some extra features (such as better links to flickr).

The photo above was taken in Puglia at the resort where two good friends held some of their wedding festivities. The result was out in the countryside generally about 15 to 30 minutes from anything (a longer stay without a car would have been tricky).