Having not had the best of weather on Walna Scar we headed for Tarn Hows, a NT site which has a lovely walk around the lake. Lots of pictures taken, but none that really stood out. The one above I quite like because I think it’s nicely framed and there are some half-decent foreground […]
Four shots with no connection between them. Above, a different view of the Langdale Pikes taken from above Chapel Stile. [EXIF: 1/30 @f/16; ISO 200; Sony ILCE-7R; Sony FE 24-105 F4 G OSS @ 69mm] Above a farmhouse near Chapel Stile in Great Langdale. [EXIF: 1/320 @f/8; ISO 200; Sony ILCE-7R; Sony FE 24-105 F4 G OSS
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Waiting to catch the light! Something that marks you out as different from the tourist photographer who doesn’t have the time to stop and wait. On a cloudy day you have a number of options: 1) wait for the sunlight to break through in the places you want to accentuate and focus on; 2) avoid
I’ve been on quite a few photo workshops with Nick Jenkins – I think my photography is improving, but can I be sure it’s down to his tuition??? One of the regular problems I have when I start a workshop is “getting in the zone”. The leader takes you to a place and says, “there’s
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Last year I went to Stourhead with Cardiff U3A and we had another coach trip in September. The challenge for the Photographic Group was to capture the “essence of Oxford”. I went for the spires and the one I’m featuring in this post was taken from the top of the St Mary the Virgin spire –
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Straight after the trip to Sicily we travelled to Corsica to stay in a villa at Tarcu, just north of Porto Vecchio. The purpose of the trip was to celebrate Peter’s 40th birthday, and the presence of a swimming pool meant we didn’t stray too far from home. I did manage to get up
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I’ve been introduced to Salvo Montalbano, and when the chance came to go on an Adagio trip to Ragusa we jumped at the chance to go and see, in the flesh so-to-speak, some of the filming locations and savour the flavours of Sicily. Here’s a Flickr slideshow of some of the shots I took –
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What a miserable day of weather to travel to the lovely National Trust property – Stourhead, in Wiltshire. The mist was so bad at times, you wondered whether it was worth getting the camera out of the bag, but I did. Then in post-processing I decided to do a black and white image of
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El Questro, Western AustraliaThis may just be my last post from our Australian trip, for a while at least. Here are two more sunrise pictures. The sky really is this colour and the reflections from the clouds are truly amazing. Within a short period of time the sky and landscape changes quite dramatically as you
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It’s all about the light, it’s all about the light. That’s drummed into photographers and of course it’s true. Round about sundowner time (indeed we enjoyed a bottle of sparkling wine after this picture was taken as the sun went down), I took this picture from Brancos lookout, looking over the Pentecost River in El