We spent a lovely Christmas in Leeds this year with our daughter’s family and we got out in the lovely pre-Christmas sun to walk around Kirkstall Abbey. It’s an amazingly photogenic location and these four shots taken with my iPhone try to give an impression of just how imposing the building is and how beautiful …
Almost a political post this time, but perhaps timely this week. Looking for lights whilst down The Bay before Christmas, the only really good one was the sunset that kindly performed for me. Here are two shots taken looking towards Penarth. The first from beside where the Doctor Who Experience used to be, the second …
A fun start to the new year, with a few shots from the old one. We were on a mission … to find the Christmas lights in Cardiff Bay. The only problem, there weren’t any! So I looked around for a) something Christmassy, and b) something unusual. The first photo hits both categories as it …
Finally to finish off what (for me) was a rather satisfying shoot at the National Folk Museum in St Fagans, near Cardiff, a set of four images of “old friends” – some of the buildings that have been in the museum the longest. Apart from some cropping, none of these photographs has been altered in …
Some texture in nature this time. A shot of some grasses which caught my eye … [EXIF: 1/50sec @ f/8; ISO 400; Sony ILCE-7R;Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA] … and then the contrast between hard, straight trees and the leafy ground (with rather nice shadows too) … [EXIF: 1/100sec @ f/9; ISO 400; Sony ILCE-7R; …
Another shot from inside the weaving shed, this time just capturing the differences in textures in the roof beams, and the sacking screen. Something I love about photography is that I just couldn’t, and probably wouldn’t, have seen this detail without taking the picture. [EXIF: 1/8sec @ f/4; ISO 800; Sony ILCE-7R; Sony FE 90mm …
So the theme for the photo shoot at St Fagans with the U3A Photography group was textures. I’ve said before that having a theme actually makes you look at familiar objects in a different way as you try and tease out from the subject something that you possibly hadn’t seen before. In the set of …
This is a bit of an experimental shot – one for the Lightroom enthusiasts maybe. It was taken inside the Chapel at the Welsh Folk Museum at St Fagans, Cardiff. The shot above is after processing in Lightroom, the shot below how it came out of the camera. I had been reading about how …
A selection of classic views of Bruges, ones that we will always remember our trip by. Jen walking by a canal – we did a fair bit of walking. [EXIF: 1/200sec @ f/8; ISO 100; Sony ILCE-7R; Sony FE 16-35 F4 ZA OSS @ 35mm] The passageway that leads into De Burg square. [EXIF: 1/125sec …
Apart from the canals you have a choice – bikes or carriages. The locals use the former and they appear to have priority over everything, cars and pedestrians! The ones above I would guess have just been fished out of the canal and are waiting to be reclaimed. [EXIF: 1/250sec @ f/4; ISO 100; Sony …