I got up this morning half expecting a blanket of snow, so was slightly disappointed when I opened the curtains and found nothing but grey and damp. I got on with whatever work I had to do and gave the […]
Read MoreThe snow has a wonderful way of making the familiar unfamiliar, and I took time out on all three days during the recent cold snap to get out and about. On the first day I didn’t get far, but the […]
Read MoreI’ve been looking back through my Lightroom catalogue for possible competition entries for a ‘The Glory of Trees’ challenge on my camera clubs website. A couple of these have been posted before, either on thefiddlersriddle, or on Facebook, but some […]
Read MoreI made my way up to Great Titchfield Street today to see an exhibition of work from the 50’s and 60’s by Franziska Themerson, the aunt of my friend Jasia Reichardt. I was caught in an absolute deluge of a […]
Read MoreI went out onto the Heath yesterday. It is a year on from my last dragonfly shots, and decided at the last minute to restrict myself to dragonflies as I don’t have as much free time to devote to this […]
Read MoreIt’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 MoreI 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 MoreThis 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 MoreI 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 MoreToday, 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 […]
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