[Click on an image to scroll through them in full screen and see the EXIF data as well.] It was a lovely clear evening and I thought it was about time I shot the Esplanade (the sea front) at Penarth, with it’s wonderfully restored pier. Unfortunately, just as I setup with the tripod to catch …
[Click on an image to scroll through them in full screen and see the EXIF data as well.] There are some who specialise in this sort of thing, and I admire them hugely. Some hurtle across the interior of the USA just to capture twisters and lightning strikes. In the UK this sort of thing …
[Click on an image to scroll through them in full screen and see the EXIF data as well.] Another week, another holiday! The relief of the end of lockdown and we made it to Llŷn for a week holiday at Nefyn. A few half-decent shots, but more important than that was having a break from …
I really like Sudbrook (where the pumping station for the Severn Rail Tunnel resides – and where there’s a splendid little museum that documents the story of it being constructed against all the odds) and Black Rock (where the original crossing for railways by ferry across the Severn was located) and where these shots were …
That was the challenge set to the u3a afternoon Photography Group. I wasn’t sure I was going to meet the deadline to submit some shots, but did manage a trip down The Bay – just-in-time. The featured image (above) has nothing to do with foregrounds, but everything to do with clever perspective and creativity. There’s …
I’ve dabbled with HDR over the years, but it’s never become as fundamental a part of my photography as perhaps it should. So … spurred on by a U3A project, I’m going to share with you three photos that got the High Dynamic Range treatment in Lightroom. But before we get there you need to …
A trip to Penarth to help our daughter with child-minding and a walk along the Esplanade and on to the pier. When we got down to the shore a sea fret filled the channel, and the sun was trying to break through. You could just see Cardiff through breaks in the mist. However, the conditions …
We did manage to get away for a few days in Cornwall. The weather wasn’t marvellous, but it was just nice to get away and try and do something that resembled normality. That was when we walked along the coast from Pendeen to St Just – a coastal walk I love, as you may recall …
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 saw them twice. The first time was the evening after we’d visited Trondheim and the lights were probably more spectacular on that occasion. It has …
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 by the Soviet army in 1945, and just marvelled in the resilience of the people in this most beautiful part of the world. Of course …