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Amazing Halnaker Windmill Sunset

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Saturday, 3rd, Sep, 2011

I know another sunset from Halnaker, I wasnt due to go back up the hill any time soon but a couple of fellow photographers from Hampshire wanted to hook up so i said i would take em up there. You can see there shots here both called Mark! Mark & Mark

What a great evening to have off and be able to share such and amazing sunset on the sussex downs.

Update to follow



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Snowy landscapes – Halnaker Windmill

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Thursday, 2nd, Dec, 2010

Halnaker has always been a favourite place of mine for quite some time now, peace and quiet and stunning views, Iwent out yesterday with Halnaker in mind but on arrival at the carpark a fellow photographer told me the snow wasnt deep, with this in mind and the forcast of more snow I penciled in sunrise this morning, I wanted to be the first person up there and no prior footprints, what follows is a picture i have wanted to take for years, it was hard work keeping the snow of the camera in the driving winds i took a few shots on the way up as well so I will start with them ….
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Where are those poppies????

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Wednesday, 9th, Jun, 2010

I went out for a walk today hoping to find some poppies up at Halnaker Windmill similar to this picture taken by Frank NaylorOnly a lot more dramatic maybe with a sunset or rising moon.

frank naylor, Waynes photos

From the bottom of the car park to the top of the hill is about 1 mile as well as including the area the size of about 10 football pitches at the top of the hill I could only find a total of 4 poppies!

There was no plan B, however on the way down the hill i came across a Chalk Hill Blue butterfly which kindly settled long enough for me to take a few pictures.

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Snowy Halnaker

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Wednesday, 23rd, Dec, 2009

I was hoping for more snow to return before Christmas and I hoped it would be deeper unfortunately it was not to be, so today i present to you a shot of the Halnaker windmill with light snow, to be honest I expected it to be deeper up on the hill but the high winds had blown all the snow onto the lower ground.

halnaker windmill in snow, Waynes photos

Enjoy

Wayne

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1000 Hits from 25 countries and counting…

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Wednesday, 14th, Oct, 2009

Well as you know my site has been up a while now and after some mathematics and removing every time i log in today i have had 1000 hits on my website from 25 different countries which is above average according to Google… not bad for a 3 month old site.

Thank you to all that have visited and had a look and please come back also feel free to leave your comments under each post you can remain anonymous if you wish just make up an email address.

Heres some interesting facts for you … or maybe not….
when searching Google World Wide for “waynes photos” Ranked 2nd of about 42 million results
when searching Google uk for “waynes photos” Ranked 1st from 400,000 results

The busiest single day was 2nd July with 55 hits
The single most popular post overall has been The London Architecture Poll with 46 visits but only 15 votes :(
The average page view is 2.71 pages per visit, spending 3 minutes 17 seconds viewing those pages.
In reality there are a high number of single page visits staying for 10 seconds or less, but here have been a number of visitors how have stayed and given the site a thorough read through thanks you to Mondays visitor who stayed for 29 minutes reading 12 pages from the Uk. :)

55% of people visiting the site return for another look… :)
33% of visitors arrived from google or other search engines.

Overall there were visits from 25 countries around the globe in order of most hits first here are the stats

  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Italy
  • Romania
  • Ireland
  • Canada
  • Netherlands
  • Portugal
  • Denmark
  • South Africa
  • Belgium
  • Poland
  • Slovenia
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Germany
  • Spain
  • France
  • Morocco
  • India
  • China
  • Argentina
  • Iran
  • Georgia

    • The 25th Country or region is … Unknown (ip region not set) so it could have come from anywhere

    There are hundreds more stats i could bore you with but i wont, but i will tell you that i can even tell the screen resolution of the pics or handheld devices the website is viewed on and i will be using this in future to maximise the size of the photos i put up.
    shame about the lens flare in this picture

    Sunset at East head, waynes photos

    hope i havent sent you to sleep, come back soon as i have some more images to post this week.

    Wayne

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    Halnaker Windmill Star Trails – Perseids Meteor Shower

    By Wayne Humphrey | Published Saturday, 15th, Aug, 2009

    Well the peak night to see the Perseids was Wednesday night alas cloud over the southern part of England made viewing impossible, after some research Jonathan found out that all though the peak viewing time was Wednesday you can still see them up until august 22nd, so we decided to go up to the windmill on Thursday night to try and catch some on the camera, semi inspired by a local Portsmouth based photographer Adam Currie i had in mind an image of Halnaker windmill with huge star trails and a few meteor streaks flying through.
    Unfortunately due to the temperature outside and the heat generated from the cameras sensor my lens fogged up during a 15 minute exposure. so my setting up/test shot was my only shot lucky for me my test shot came out ok with a little colour balance work in photoshop.

    Halnaker Windmill Star Trails,waynes photos

    More Star Trails.

    Enjoy
    Wayne

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    Halnaker Windmill Moon Lit

    By Wayne Humphrey | Published Tuesday, 11th, Aug, 2009

    I am So Excited about this post as I have been working towards this photograph for over a year now   Some of you may have seen the images I have taken during the last year while trying to achieve this photograph though none came close to this. I’m happy with my image and think we may finally be able to say we are finished at this location. As mentioned on my last post the weather changed for the better and im very glad we decided to go back up.

    Feel free to leave comments below.

    Halnaker Windmill Moon Lit, waynes photos

    Enjoy
    Wayne

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    Halnaker Windmill Sunset on Full Moon Night

    By Wayne Humphrey | Published Sunday, 9th, Aug, 2009

    Another month goes by and the full moon week was ruined by heavy cloud,  all bar Wednesday night where the cloud was light rain was forecast but we went out anyway, from the top of the hill at Halnaker we could see rain over Brighton and Worthing and in the other direction to Portsmouth Southampton and beyond, after setting up and taking a couple of sunset pictures and a look out to sea to see the clouds coming in.
    So we packed up and went for a drive noticing a short while later the cloud had cleared, so we picked up the bare essentials for what we needed to shoot the windmill by moon light and headed back up for what turned out to be almost perfect conditions with the cloud returning just as we were finishing up.
    Below is another sunset picture from Halnaker Windmill and the Moon lit picture will follow tomorrow.
    They say every one has a place where they feel at peace some people just feel comfortable being somewhere,
    I feel at Home when im up at the windmill shame there is no house there.

    Halnaker Windmill, Sunset,waynes photos

    Halnaker Windmill.

    Enjoy
    Wayne

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    Halnaker Windmill

    By Wayne Humphrey | Published Saturday, 13th, Jun, 2009

    On a recent trip out which was “rained” off by bad cloud, i took this photo of a sunset at Halnaker Windmill (its one of my favourite places for sunsets) while setting up the shot for later.
    Any how later never arrived.
    When I got home I merged several exposures together a technique known as HDR (High Dynamic Range), it basically takes all the best bits from 3 photos and puts them together, but you have to shoot on a tripod for this to be effective. Anyhow sometimes Hdr produces undesired effects or enhances things from the photos that you can see as well from one photo. The following image is one of those occasions, the rainbow effect has come from smears on the lens that couldn’t be seen with the eye, from when it was cleaned last.

    Halnaker windmill

    Halnaker Windmill, West Sussex.

    Enjoy

    Comments welcome

    Wayne

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