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 know I haven’t taken as many photographs as I usually have done, but I was surprised to see my output to this blog, to Flickr …
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 better images?” So what do you think? I think they might stand better as two images side-by-side rather than one. …
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 values – admittedly from distance – I wanted to play with using my 200mm lens at about 3-4m from the subject. Lockdown provided the opportunity …
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!
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 to put images up on Flickr, but have fallen behind with both the blog and Instagram posting. Hopefully, I’ll be back to the weekly post …
An opportunity to use the lens ball again, and that fisheye lens – both innovations that have woken up my photography this year.
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 image, so here’s the set of images I took on the theme of “Isolation”.
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 location you’re going to gives you the opportunity to do a bit of research on Google Maps to work out exactly the shots you want …
