We have an amaryllis growing in the kitchen; it was a Christmas gift from a friend. It’s coming along nicely, and a few days ago it was lit by the early morning sun. I loved the rim lighting, and thought I would try and capture it. The plant is growing near the window, hence the […]
Category Archives: Composition
At last I can wish my reader a “Happy New Year”! Testing positive for Covid on Jan 1st was not a great start to the year, and it’s taken a while to get back to feeling anything like normal. Anyway, I’m back now, and keen to pass on my photographic ideas. Today’s post is all […]
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 […]
On a recent trip to Pembrokeshire one landscape feature really stood out. It was the Valero oil refinery at Pembroke. It was tempting, in a landscape that has fabulous coastal scenery, to ignore it as a photographic subject, but it’s such a prominent feature it’s worth a closer look. Looking at it from the Angle […]
I recently went to the athletics at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. They had some curious rules about the size of lenses that spectators could take in. No lenses longer than 12 inches were allowed. I’m guessing they were concerned about people using long telephoto lenses and taking close up images to sell to agencies. […]