As we move into the darker and colder days of winter it’s easy to fall into bad habits and stop looking for images, or say, “It’s all a bit grey, so I’ll leave my camera at home”! Remember though, even if you don’t go out much, there are still loads of photographic subjects, some even […]
Category Archives: Macro

We’ve got the builders in, so I need to be around the house all day to answer questions and advise. This means my photographic radius is somewhat reduced. It’s like lockdown but much more expensive and noisier! I could still have a wander round the house and garden with my macro lens. It’s surprising what […]
A friend recently gave me a bellows attachment. Bellows allow you to get the lens away from the camera body, and this gives you more magnification. It was made for an M42 screw-thread mount camera system (think 1950/60’s Pentax or Praktica), so making it work with my Olympus MFT system needed an adapter. Having done […]
At last we are in the year where it will all be better. Well, I hope so anyway! Since my last post we have had the Christmas celebrations and New Year’s Day. I hope yours went well. One thing I did at Christmas was to go to the Worcester Cathedral Christmas Tree Festival. There were […]

It’s well and truly autumn now and the sun, when it’s out, is at a much lower angle to things than at the same time of day in summer. That lower light angle means that lots more photographic opportunities arise. There are very busy spiders living on and around our window frames. However often you […]