This part of Western Australia – the stretch north of Perth – is called The Sunset Coast, and for good reason. Jenny patiently waited whilst I set up my gear, using the small Gorilla Pod perched on a rock – just above water level and I experimented with getting shots of the sunset and the […]
What spectacular weather I had during my short trip to Helsinki and St Petersburg. The over-arching memories are of blues skies and autumn colours. I walked a lot, and we (DeeJay and I) walked a lot when we got to St Petersburg. Here’s an album of highlights, but there are far more images on Google
I’m not really very good at taking pictures of people, but a wet and miserable day waiting for the Thames River Boat Pageant had to be recorded in some way. Luckily my subjects rose to the occasion, and Lightroom did the rest! Here are a couple more shots taken from the trip …
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This is a heavily edited image that was taken with the Lumix the day before the Jubilee River Pageant as Jenny and I walked upstream from Canary Wharf to Temple Underground Station on the Embankment. I uploaded it into Lightroom for editing where the photo was enhanced (given the low light levels and general overcast
A picture from the Yorkshire Dales Photo Workshop. This is where I learnt to do silky waterfalls. The secret, if there is one, aperture priority and use a graduated filter to reduce the shutter speed. I actually like the composition of this image with the river exiting the picture to the right front. Below is
On a Photo Workshop with Nick Jenkins – Freespirit Images – we spent an hour in a hide at The Red Kite, a centre for feeding this iconic bird near Llandeussant. This was an opportunity to try out my new 70-300mm lens on the Sony Alpha 700. There are some more shots of the kites
I’d just got my iPhone 4S, so it would have been a crime not to have tried it out when I was on the Workshop. I think it’s amazing the detail such a simple lens can deliver. The picture is of an out-house behind a chapel which was at that time “For Sale”, underneath the
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On an absolutely clear day (which is rare for South Island) I was fortunate enough to be able to go up in a helicopter and take pictures of the Franz Josef glacier and of Mount Cook. Some more aerial shots can be seen below … … and one from the snout of the adjacent Fox
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This image marks the day I started taking RAW+JPEG images (I now just shoot using RAW). It also marks the occasion of a dastardly attempt on my life, when one rather clumsy fellow Workshop attendee stepped (or fell) off a rock and nearly pitched me, my tripod and all my gear into the river just
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