A wonderful show of orchids
One of the few joys this year, in spite of being in self-isolation, has been to enjoy the show that our orchids have put on for us. I seem to…
Summer’s over
That was quite a shock! I looked at the last post on the blog and found it was June 29th. Now I know it's been a strange year, and I…
Cropping makes the image
Sometimes after carefully staging your photograph, and cropping it following some of the standard rules, you then look at the image ... ... and think ... "would that make two…
Thanks for changing the bath water
Playing with a long lens
Len, a U3A friend, has been imploring me to spend loads of cash on a new long lens. I've resisted! He's taken some remarkable photos of birds using high ISO…
Iris about to burst in B&W
Flowers in Black and White
A fair bit of controversy around this theme as some of the group felt that flowers were meant to be in colour, not black and white, well ... here's both!
Framed
Apologies - I've been catching-up on my posting. It seems strange to say that I've not had the time in these strange times, but it's actually true. I've been able…
Lens ball magic and the return of the fisheye
An opportunity to use the lens ball again, and that fisheye lens - both innovations that have woken up my photography this year.
Isolation
As Covid-19 Lockdown kicked in, the Cardiff U3A Photography Group started a weekly theme - posting a single image in our Flickr Group. I, of course couldn't stop at one…