Just a quick message to my readers to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy and peaceful New Year. Our Christmas tree at home has white LEDs on it. Just for a change I tried a different Light Painting mode on my Huawei mobile phone; Traffic Trails. My usual Silky Water mode gave […]
Category Archives: Light Painting

Whilst on a countryside walk recently I came across this huge pile of discarded shotgun cartridges on the edge of a wood. There were thousands! I wondered why the people who had assiduously gathered them up could not have then disposed of them in a responsible way. Whilst the metal parts might rust away over […]
I’m doing my first remote talk to a camera club soon. I’m using GoToMeeting for that one, but I’m happy to work with other conference systems, such as Zoom. I charge my usual fee, but there’s no travel costs, so your club could be anywhere in the country, or even further afield. Current talks: “Movement […]

I recently updated my phone to Pie, the latest version of Android. It also updated my phone camera software, and the settings were all in different places! It took a while to find one of my favourites which is the “Silky Water” light painting mode. It’s designed to be used with the camera held still, […]

I’ve got a new mobile phone. It makes calls, texts and happily WhatApps, but the camera module and its software are worlds away from my previous mobile. It has a Leica-branded double camera setup and has, it seems, a 27mm f1.8 Summilux-H lens. The software is also powerful. It can do the fancy “fake-bokeh” thing, […]