New year’s eve wander
Well happy new year to you. My new year will be largely taken up with restocking after a bumper set of Christmas markets and starting to...
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- Dec 20, 2019
The last of Holme Fell
This is positively the last set of shots currently in my catalogue from Holme Fell. It was such a beautiful autumn afternoon that I...
- Dec 18, 2019
Torver grey
Finally deciding it was time to move on from my obsession with Holme Fell I tried a new area for the first time. Driving north alongside...
- Dec 11, 2019
First shots with my new lens
Langdale Pikes This was the first day’s shooting with my new Panasonic lens for my Olympus OMD-EM10 and I was excited by it. Also the...
- Nov 21, 2019
Using graduated ND filters on mirrorless cameras
my new lens a couple of posts ago. One very useful side-effect is that it has a 52mm filter thread which just happens to be one of the...
- Nov 13, 2019
A new old lens
My camera equipment is always on the leading edge of the technology curve – I’ve just bought a second hand Panasonic 14-45 mm zoom lens,...
- May 18, 2019
On Sharpness
I talked a few posts ago about our perceptions of image sharpness. I illustrated that post with an example of extreme sharpness – showing...
- May 17, 2019
Try something different
I did a walk on wednesday starting at Castlerigg Stone Circle, near Keswick in the Lake District. The weather was perfect for walking –...
- Apr 17, 2019
On Image Sharpness
It is my view that there are no magic secrets to getting a good photograph and that subject matter and composition always trump technical...
- Jan 30, 2019
A little bit of snow
By coincidence I exchanged comments a day or so ago with a reader from Helsinki who had posted a YouTube link showing his driving in...
- Nov 10, 2018
More Cheshire Autumn
This has been a great autumn and it isn’t over yet. I went back to the woods at Alderley Edge and found them full of colour and with the...
- Nov 9, 2018
Trefriw
I took a couple of shots earlier this year that have had a big influence on me. They were both shots of narrow, tree-lined lanes. Since...
- Nov 4, 2018
Lingmoor Fell
I did a lovely round of Lingmoor Fell and Little and Great Langdales last week. Lots of autumn colour. As you’ll see this small hill has...
- May 11, 2018
Don’t go into the woods – lessons you’d think I would have learned by now
Coed y Brenin Whenever a walk has a significant stretch in managed woodlands, like Forestry Commission woods, I always get lost. It isn’t...
- Apr 25, 2018
Duddon Valley
Duddon Valley The Duddon Valley is in the south-west of the Lake District, running north to south just to the left of Coniston. It isn’t...
- Feb 6, 2018
Easedale snow panoramas
St Sunday Crag seen through Grisedale Hause, Fairfield on the right, Dollywagon Pike on the left. Joy and I went to the Lake District for...
- Jan 26, 2018
The light of Provence
We travelled to Provence for the first time in 2016. A village called Malaucene, at the foot of Mont Ventoux, famous as a long-standing...
- Jan 25, 2018
Nant Gwynant
Here are some shots I took of Nant Gwynant yesterday. This is the valley in Snowdonia that runs from Beddgelert northwards, to the...
- Jan 4, 2018
Shining Tor
Shining Tor is the highest point in Cheshire. It has great views (on a clear day) across the Cheshire plain. This wasn’t such a clear day...
- Jan 2, 2018
In my back yard
When photographing I spend most of my time in Snowdonia, the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, etc. Hilly places of obvious scenic...
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