A few days ago, whilst walking across Greenham Common, I came across a very strange object. It’s a steel “replica” of a B-52 bomber (if you look at it sideways, with one eye closed, on a very dark day), that was used for fire fighting practice when the airfield was operational. It’s abandoned now, and […]
During these short winter days, the lighting can sometimes be wonderful, but it can sometimes hinder photography. It’s the overcast days where it can hinder. The reason is the much higher level of brightness that an overcast sky has compared to the brightness of the foreground. Your camera tries hard to average out the scene’s […]
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 […]
The autumn/winter weather is really upon us now. On Sunday I had the “pleasure” of driving through a very heavy snowfall indeed on my way to the Royal Photographic Society in Bath, where I was tutoring a creative photography course. The course was great fun, and well worth the effort of getting there. The bad […]
I recently got, from someone on Freegle, an old Pentax S1 film camera. With the camera came a box containing various old enlarger lenses, but there was also a 10cm diameter simple glass lens. It’s flat on one side and convex on the other. Having played with it a bit I realised it would make […]
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