Monthly Archives: July 2011

Calling all Trekkies; Buscot impresses again!

Last Saturday I tutored another Photo Trek at Buscot Park near Faringdon.  Once again Buscot impressed with its mixture of open parkland and more formal gardens, giving a superb variety of locations for photography and, of course, photography training. Thank you to Lord Faringdon for allowing us to run Photo Treks there. The Trek delegates […]

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The Red Arrows – almost live…

My photography studio is near the Defence Academy, and every year at their graduation ceremony they have a big display by the RAF’s famous formation aerobatics team “The Red Arrows”.  This year’s display was today so I thought I would try and blog it “almost live”. First thing to do was to get my equipment […]

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Testing a new Travel Zoom camera; by travelling!

After several years of using Panasonic’s Lumix range of compact digital cameras, I’ve bought myself another brand (shock!).  I have kept true to one of my principles, taken advantage of the very short production cycles that cameras have these days, and bought a model that’s been replaced by a “better” one.  The new camera is […]

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