The theme of the last month has definitely been the outdoors and since my last post I've managed to get outside a few more times, increasing my collection of landscapes, car lights and night shoot pictures.

I don't think I'm quite where I want to be with my Milky Way attempts yet, but I've had a chance to try out some of the things I've learnt and they're starting to show promise so I'll head out again in September and start refining what I've learnt so far.  I was pleasantly surprised to find I wasn't the only madman out at 2 in the morning as I passed a couple of photographers shooting in the vicinity! 

Always on the look out for new ways to work I purchased a copy of Skylum's Luminar editing software this week. First impressions are that it is quite powerful and could prove to be a worthy tool to add into my workflow. Of the pictures below I used Luminar to edit the blue dramatic sky and water shot.

I hope you enjoy the pictures. Now all I've got to do is invent a device that would allow more hours in the day as I seem to be struggling to keep up with all the things I want to do!