Photo of the Day – 19 January 2017: Wind Turbines
This is not the shot I envisaged I would obtain when I went to Reculver in Kent. Landscape photography always has an element of fortune and this occasion was no different. It was circumstances rather than my initial intentions which ended up dictating the eventual image. This was my first visit there and I went […]
Photo of the Day – 2 January 2017: Nelson, Moon and Venus
Date wise, this image is going to appear out of order on my blog, but I wanted to publish it on the day I took it. Earlier this evening in the West End of London I saw Nelson’s Column below a waxing Moon and the planet Mars. It made for a remarkable sight. One of […]
Transition to Fuji – Part 2
The Candidates Assemble At times my quest to find a new camera system has felt something akin to a series of “The Apprentice”. I cannot take that analogy too far, though. At the start of each series of the TV programme there are always the no hopers and braggarts. The former get weeded out quite […]
Transition to Fuji – Part 1
For me, the least interesting thing about an image is the camera which was used to take it. Which is not to say that the camera’s role is unimportant. Clearly that is not the case. Nor that cameras are uninteresting. Our choice of camera does, though, have an effect on how we take photographs […]
Photo of the Day – 1 November 2016: Burton Bradstock Beach
Taken during a walk along the beach at Burton Bradstock. If the cliffs look familiar, it might be because they are one end of a sandstone formation which terminates at West Bay. That is the port town in Dorset which was the main location for the filming of the Broadchurch TV series. At West Bay, […]
On Photography
If my blog has seemed a little quiet of late, there is good reason. I regularly visit camera clubs to give talks on a variety of subjects related to photography and have just added a new presentation. It is called “On Photography” and to date it has been the most challenging of all my presentations […]
Photo of the Day – 13 October 2016: The Road to Loch Etive
Glen Etive runs off Glen Coe and a single track road leads down to the head of Loch Etive, with a number of locations along the way which are worth exploring with a camera. Shortly after joining the road, there is an attractive stand of silver birch trees. This shot was the last I took […]
Photo of the Day – 11 October 2016: Lone Tree
After a couple of fabulous sunny days, conditions became overcast. That can be challenging, although sunny weather when there are harsh shadows and extremes between the light and darkest parts of the scene can present its own issues. In fact the light was excellent at the end of the day and I have several pleasing shots taken […]
Photo of the Day – 9 October 2016: Glencoe Lochan
Someone with a good knowledge of the local area put me on to this location at Glencoe Lochan and, as luck would have it, I arrived at an optimal time during the middle of the afternoon. Not only was the sun shining, it was in the right position to make the best of the views […]
Photo of the Day 2016 – 3 September: Southwold Pier
Another shot from my recent photographic excursion to Suffolk, this time of Southwold Pier at dawn. This was taken just before the sun rose above the horizon, after which the colour in the sky rapidly disappeared. The exposure of the sky at top left was held back with a Lee 0.6 soft graduated filter. […]