Summer’s over
That was quite a shock! I looked at the last post on the blog and found it was June 29th. Now I know it's been a strange year, and I…
Cropping makes the image
Sometimes after carefully staging your photograph, and cropping it following some of the standard rules, you then look at the image ... ... and think ... "would that make two…
Thanks for changing the bath water
Playing with a long lens
Len, a U3A friend, has been imploring me to spend loads of cash on a new long lens. I've resisted! He's taken some remarkable photos of birds using high ISO…
Iris about to burst in B&W
Flowers in Black and White
A fair bit of controversy around this theme as some of the group felt that flowers were meant to be in colour, not black and white, well ... here's both!
Isolation
As Covid-19 Lockdown kicked in, the Cardiff U3A Photography Group started a weekly theme - posting a single image in our Flickr Group. I, of course couldn't stop at one…
A sparrow hawk in our garden
Out of sequence, but too exciting to wait. Jenny had seen this bird (or a relative) twice before in the garden, once when it actually flew in at high-speed and…
Garden pleasure
What a lovely day! The garden is beginning to looked cared-for again, so a break for a cup of tea and a couple of snaps. The Australian corner, and below…
Garden visits in The Marches
Now I'm not a "visiting gardens man" normally, but this spring I had the opportunity of visiting three excellent gardens near Leominster and Presteigne in The Marches. Here are some…
Infra-red experiments II
Infra-red experiments
I was given an infra-red filter for Christmas and I'm ashamed to admit I hadn't made the time to "play" with it until this afternoon. Here are three "random"…
Hosta heaven
They're a bit like Marmite - you either love 'em, or loath them. I've grown to like them which is about half-way, but there's no denying that Jenny's got a…
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