Looking 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 […]
Read MoreA new lens for Spring
I picked up a fast 25(50)mm Prime lens second hand and have been forcing myself to use my feet instead of zoom to compose my shots. It’s been an interesting experience using what was once the stock ‘kit lens’ focal […]
Read MoreSpring is coming
I was back on the Heath this week and, if the paths are well trodden, it’s a real pleasure to see the colour seeping back into the landscape – the bits those damn dam people haven’t dug up! Pryors Filed […]
Read MorePhotos for Suzan Swale
I spent a very satisfying and enjoyable morning taking some photographs for the website of Suzan Swale, the London Group artist. It was an opportunity to get out my tripod and a bit of lighting gear, and things worked out […]
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