A Lack of Subject
It’s been a long while since I lasted posted here, and this hasn’t been the easiest winter for me to get out and about. At the back end of last year I managed to get a very wide angle zoom […]
Read MoreFoggy photos
I was out early this morning to get breakfast; too early as it traspired, as they had not yet cooked the croissant. A quick assessment of the ethereal quality of the light quickly dispelled any lethargy on my part and […]
Read MoreTechnical deficiencies…
I was out earlier in the week at a wonderful private view of the 2016 exhibition of the London Group courtesy of the artist Suzan Swale, A fine in evening, in good company, but I didn’t feel comfortable whipping out […]
Read MoreLooking for dragonflies
This time I went looking for dragonflies. I found an electric blue one, that posed all the while I was getting my camera ready, and then disappeared, never to be seen again. This ‘Brown Hawker(?)’ kept returning to more or […]
Read MoreA photographic experience
I found myself out this morning in well worn territory, and the baking heat, giving a photography lesson to a friend who wanted to get more familiar with the Nikon DSLR that she’d had for a while, but hadn’t made […]
Read MoreAfter more rain….
Today, my morning work was cancelled, and I immediately headed out onto the Heath shortly after the rain. I became hung up largely on insects and flowers. I didn’t have my macro lens with me, but was shooting with a […]
Read MoreAfter the rain….
I was out late evening on Saturday after a stormy old day – metaphorically as well as literally – up onto Primrose Hill. There was plenty of drama, and I continued the experiments in HDR – though I think I’d […]
Read MoreExperiments in HDR
I went up to Hampstead yesterday with a pair of photographic projects in mind. The first was to take some High Dynamic Range (HDR) photographs – as Google have just made the Nik Software HDR Efex Pro free! And to […]
Read MorePrimrose Hill at night.
I’ve been out on Primrose Hill a couple of times recently trying to get a nighttime vista of London. It’s not as easy as I had imagined. Last week I took a lightweight tripod and a good deal of patience, […]
Read MoreWormwood Scrubs circular walk
I went for a good long walk early yesterday, starting in the Paddington Basin section of the Grand Union Canal and walking in a loop up to the Mitre Bridge, along Scrubbs Lane and Wormwood Scrubs and back through the […]
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