Welford Park, near Newbury in Berkshire, is a country house with a real speciality this time of the year; snowdrops. The galanthus bit of this post’s title is the Latin name for snowdrops. It comes from the Greek for “milk flower”. For a few weeks in February and early March the gardens are open, so…
I recently stayed (for a very special birthday) at the wonderful Woodsford Castle in Dorset, UK. Parts of it go back to the middle of the 14th Century, and it is very atmospheric. It’s owned by the Landmark Trust, and you can rent it. It sleeps up to 8 people, and is, in effect, a…
I recently dusted off my soft-focus lens and tried it on my Panasonic GF1. It’s a simple plastic tube, with a plastic lens element at the end nearer the camera, inside another plastic tube. You focus by sliding the outer tube relative to the inner tube. The lens is made so that it produces a…
OK, so we’ve got our Christmas tree up, (in the unused fireplace as usual), and after admiring its beauty and the way the lights looked, I got to wondering, “Just how can I photograph the lights in a creative way?” Well, the first thing to do was to establish a reference point by photographing it…
OK, let me state at the start that this blog post is not about the Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton. No, it’s about the Royal Academy of Arts’ Summer Exhibition, in London from 7th June to 15th August 2011. Their website says, “The Royal Academy’s annual Summer Exhibition is the world’s largest open…
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