The second post in the series focusses on doors. Italian doors are quite often simply magnificent and here are a selection of them taken in Trevi, Assisi, Bevagna, Montefalco and Spelo – a place which features in the next posts as well because of its wonderful show of flowers. Here they are as a gallery […]
A series of posts based on our stay in Trevi in Umbria, the first one being on the subject of churches. I took many pictures inside and outside churches, but these three are representative. Below is the Duomo di Spoleto. I rather like the whispy cloud which almost seems to be coming out of the
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A gallery of images from our trip to Rome in June this year. We stayed in Trastevere and walked out from there to the Coliseum on our first day, and then Vatican City on our second day. Too many tourists of course, but a great “taster” trip which will entice us to go back, out-of-season
What an amazing sky greeted us at Sudbrook – where the Severn Tunnel Pumping Station works constantly to allow the trains to run under the river. An obvious candidate for a Black & White shot; but the colour one’s not bad as well. The perched stone atop the ruined Holy Trinity Church attracts the eye
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The May photo shoot for the U3A Photo Group took us to the Cardiff Bay Barrage, with a theme of “lines”. I tried my best to comply using leading lines where possible, going from left to right (where possible), and incorporating the quirky wherever possible as well – beds of sedimentary rock pointing towards Penarth
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I do like to get away for a few days to spend time in the company of other people who have photography as their hobby (even passion). With them you don’t feel nerdy when you’re walking about with a big bag and a tripod – it’s just what they (you) do; it’s natural; you feel
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“This week’s photo shoot is Cathays Park”. Now what was I going to take a picture of that I didn’t know everything about already. The theme is “architecture” or “architectural detail”. Well that helps a little to focus the mind, I suppose. Anyway, as always, once I got my head in the right space, I
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A short visit to my sister and a quick visit to Nymans House and Gardens in Sussex. Not much to say about the photos, I suppose the last one has a sort of interesting twist to it (literally), otherwise in the short time we were there (which was mainly spent in the tea rooms anyway)
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A full-day Shoot with the Cardiff U3A Photo Group with Nick Jenkins in attendance. Nick is not only known to me by my attendance on several of his Photo Workshops, he’s also a close neighbour of one of our group members, so he was invited to come down to Llantwit Beach to help us with
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Here are a selection of the shots I took during our visit. My favourites? The close-ups of the fritillary and the buds, and the garden shed where I exposed for the shadows knowing I could get the highlights (outside the door of the shed) back in post-processing, which I did. These little things I’m beginning
Enjoying the sun at Harlow Carr Read More »