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…
Celtic Ring, Mermaid Quay and the Pierhead - Cardiff Bay
Panos at The Bay
A set of three images, chosen from a Cardiff U3A Photography Group shoot - the last one before Covid-19 lockdown. The theme was "Panoramas", the location Cardiff Bay. Knowing the…
The Northern Lights south of Rørvik
And last but not least – The Northern Lights
Hurtigruten commit to giving you another trip (half-a-trip actually) if you don't see the Northern Lights on the 12-day voyage. Well, they didn't need to worry on this trip. We…
A solitary cottage - Honningsvåg
Finnmark – as far north as you can go!
So this was it. The point where we got as close to the Russian border as we could, learnt the stories of the Atlantic Convoys, the liberation of this area…