A Dark Day

Not so much to do with the weather - after all there were some blue skies, which made for some interesting high contrast shots.

It was more to do the mood. 
Not brought on by the ghosts and the ghouls in the woods.
Much more to do with the Council and  their websites which are designed to make it very hard to contact them and put in complaints and objections.
All finished off with a camera club judge who did nothing but explain how every shot needed to be completely different from the one he was meant to be critiquing.
For the first time in quite a while we had new members and beginners putting in quite a few images and this man did nothing but rip their hearts out by telling how virtually everything was wrong (did you know that if you are taking a picture of a flower in the wild you should take a pair of scissors and cut away everything else round about it? and if there is water in a picture you should be in it or at least just about have the camera in it?).
I was always told that when giving a critique, start and finish with a positive comment.

I gave up and left early.