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 …
Another shot taken whilst on a Photo Workshop. It took me ages to get this one anywhere near right. Getting the correct aperture for the river was reasonably straightforward, but getting some definition in the background and some light in the shadows of the foreground took much more work. No doubt some more work …
Sometimes, you can get a picture that you didn’t mean to take! This is one of those. I was leaning against a tree, to compensate for the lack of tripod, when I slipped and the shutter was released. I can’t say the intended picture would have been better – but this is the one I …
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 …
This picture didn’t need any post-processing. It’s just as I saw it. A lovely selection of autumn colours in the river valley below the reservoir dam.
Elan Valley Village Another picture taken on a Nick Jenkins workshop. It was the first location of the Workshop and as is usual for me, I find it slow to get going. Whilst others are capturing wonderful images – which I just don’t see – I’m scrabbling around for something to take; and at the …
I don’t do enough macro (close-up) photography. A visit to the RHS Garden at Harlow Carr, near Harrogate, provided the opportunity for me to try out (refresh) my skills. I quite like this image – makes me want to get my 50mm Sigma lens out a bit more frequently. Another recovered image and post from …
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 …
This picture is one of a few that I’ve shot, that I know sits on the wall of another house. Terry who knows the Edward River at Deniliquin, NSW as well as anyone, just loved this picture which caught light, and the high river, in a way that he’d never seen before. I was flattered …
I’ve not had much of an opportunity to “play” with filters, this image is therefore a bit of a rarity. I’ve used a combination of polarising and graduated filter here to produce an intensity of deep colours which I rather like. … and here’s a more “traditional view of Cradle Mountain Lake with the mountain …