I’m so fortunate to have good friends that I’ve known almost all of my adult life – since school in fact. Most of us meet every month for a drink with our wives, and then there are “specials” – like the BBQ at Rich and Francis’ place near Hereford. Great evening, great companionship, great food, […]
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What do you do with a reasonable composition opportunity but pretty awful light. Well … you apply Lightroom. In this case stopping down the exposure, increasing the contrast and then decreasing (massively) the Clarity. So, all the rather dreary sky just seems to fade away. Other pictures taken with my TZ10 the same weekend can
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This picture was taken on a grey day whilst walking with family. Jenny noticed the bridge and said – “I like that”. I hope I did the picture she saw justice.Taken with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10 using Intelligent Auto and then cropped and slightly re-touched (grey day filter) by importing into Lightbox (part of the
I was having a drink in this bar and saw a picture like this one on the wall, so I thought I’d try and reproduce it. The trick was to use a half-pint glass, it looks like a pint – but it isn’t. 🙂
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
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
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
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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
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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
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