The Camera Never Lies.

or so they say.

Even without Photoshop or any other image changing app the way you take a photo makes a lot of difference to the overall effect of the final image. 

To begin with a camera cannot do what our brains are able to do when looking at the light levels of the whole picture. On the top photo I had to chose whether to have the sky or the foreground looking the way my brain perceived it. So in the photo the green grass of the cliff ended up in the dark. 

The first three photos were all taken within moments of each other. The more I zoomed in the more golden the photos got. That's to do with the way our brains will fill in the rest of the scene with the colours it can already see.

Whatever the technical reason I simply enjoy taking photos of the setting sun.

Today things were cooler still. I spent the day tidying up the rest of the hedges. I got out the extra long hedge trimmer which so heavy and hard to use but meant I didn't need to be balancing on the stepladder. The hedge between us and the neighbours is still a bit too pointy on the top. I'll trim it into a better shape when there aren't a million plants in the way.

The inside of the long hedge got cut and some of the herbaceous plants needed cutting back too. At least that's it for now.