One of the images I took for the OU Digital Photography course. I took this subject from many different angles until I got this one, with the low-angle sun shining exactly where I wanted it. Maybe the background is a bit distracting, but I don’t think so. The statue recalls (at least for me) the …
This image, another one from the OU course, has become a favourite of mine. It shows a fishing boat leading the way out from the lock that controls the passage to the Severn Estuary and from Cardiff Bay. The early morning light, the light on the boat, the ribbons in the water and the views …
Jane came for the weekend. The sun shone. We went to Penarth. We went on the newly refurbished (but not yet open) pier. It was a lovely warm day. I saw Jane taking a picture a bit like this one – into the sun, and had to have a go myself getting the shelter in …
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 …
This image was an exercise in getting the whole picture in focus – a depth-of-field challenge. In post-processing it was to be an exercise in bringing out detail from the mossy bridge in the foreground.
This picture was taken on another of Nick Jenkins’ (Freespirit Images) Photo Workshops – this time in the Yorkshire Dales. The combination of the dark, stormy clouds, the sunlight breaking through them to highlight a field of wheat and the derelict farm building makes for a moody composition. One I particularly like. Re-publishing earlier work …
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 …
Near Malham TarnNot far from High Trenhouse, and Malham Tarn, this classic “solitary tree” picture was a bit of a challenge – given the rather dull and overcast day. Getting the right alignment of the clints (the cracks in the limestone pavement) with the tree and the camera was the first task, then it was …
I took this with a 300mm zoom, and then enlarged it further. Delighted to have got such a tack-sharp image which shows the cheeky chap looking straight at me and waiting for me to take seed out for him/her.