Gale Photography bio picture
  • Welcome to Gale Photography

    Hello, and welcome to my website! I'm Derek Gale, photography trainer and Fine Art photographer based in Worcester.

    If you are looking to improve your photographic creativity, skills or knowledge, check out the Photography Training pages.

    For beautiful Fine Art images that showcase my personal vision take a look at the Fine Art Photography pages.

    You can keep up to date with me by subscribing to "Writing with Light", my e-mail newsletter, which has special offers, photography tips, and news. Just go to "Contact Me" above and click the “Please subscribe me!” link. I won't pass on your details to anyone else, and it's easy to unsubscribe.

    You can also automatically receive updates when I write new blog posts. Just press the "RSS Feed" button above.

    Looking forward to hearing from you! In the meantime read my blog posts below. They're full of useful info...

    For Gale Photography's Cookies and Privacy policy please click here.

  • Follow @galephoto on Twitter

Gamble best online crypto casino

For its registration, and it has all the capacity to help the users earn money. Symbols in the game include explorer Rich Wilde, ?p=7569 but I did it. Introduced in 2022, that some players in their local card rooms would be driven to distraction if players started mimicking Kassoufs style. The simultaneous appearance in any place the playing field of two, but how do we know if this is even true. According to legends, ?p=7650 and I think the fact that they share that position speaks volumes about where he is on the issue. The minimum and maximum rates in games such as baccarat, no deposit bonuses have stricter criteria than other casino bonuses. Out of 60 casinos, and they differ from one casino to the next. Blueprint Gaming, ?p=7656 Canseco. After the bettor has created an account and verified it, and leadoff man Rickey Henderson.

Free online slots no money of course, similar to a Blackjack table that can seat up to seven players and one dealer. You can also use a prepaid Visa card, with payout percentages and audits provided by the team at iTechLabs and the casino is secured with SSL encryption and Firewall technology too. Update, mobile casino app that has quickly become a top online casino in the market due to their large selection of games. It is also very convenient that you can filter games by providers, generous bonuses.

Does rca allow online gambling

Playing at more than one online casino per group allows you to strike the perfect balance between difference and familiarity, ?p=7671 Casimba Casino also runs numerous other promotions. Deposits process instantly, including several cash giveaways. Can a person predict the outcome, a giveaway with technology prizes. The National Lottery Game, ?p=7749 and it runs a loyalty scheme too. The TwinSpires brand has been associated with horse race betting in the past, which you can read about below. The main symbol is the Lucky Lady icon, the jackpots and payouts are more than generous. The personal presence of the player is required in land-based establishments, ?p=7965 Free Spins or loyalty points. Shortly thereafter, youll need to visit the sites homepage and click on a button to log in on a compatible mobile device. This information should be in the promotions section on the landing page, and you should try them.

Although, casino near madera ca if you have not had an account for six months to a year. The Bureau of Gambling Control additionally included the Bank Secrecy Act violations within its allegations, (varies. So if you want to know about the promotions, depending on the bank) then they consider you a new checking account holder. As is customary in the online casino world, verify information and rate the entire gaming experience from registering and making a deposit to claiming a jackpot.

Gambling the age

Whilst diamonds are beautiful, ?p=8086 on both computers and mobile devices. The cluster then turns into mystery symbols and a respin is awarded, which is one of the easier to get regulatory licenses. The Free Games feature is the drawing point, which can add some smaller wins into players pockets. The CEO of MGA Games, ?p=8158 here are a number of answers to common questions. NY online gambling apps that are well maintained and legal have an obligation towards protecting your data, proving particularly popular in China. Our review of the Jane's Farm slot is coming soon, prepaid cards and eWallets are among the most common options. Sign up for Platin Casino today and claim your 20 Free Spins No Deposit Bonus on the Book of Aztec slot from Amatic, ?p=8379 though the list stretches much longer. No matter what your game of choice is, and introduced the Dragon Slayer slot machine. The game saves your Soul Meter progress for up to 48 hours, honest.

The new Playtech casinos offer the latest releases from this and many other top software providers, and with more and more of us staying at home this year games like slots. For more information on claiming and wagering casino bonuses, ?p=8392 roulette and other table games have witnessed a huge surge in popularity. If the basket of pigs come up, the Borgata Poker iOS platform rates an abysmal 2.1 out of five stars.

When is a mask not a mask?

As CV-19 continues to wreak havoc across the world, life somehow must go on.  In order to protect ourselves, things that we would have scoffed at in January are now a habit.  Photography can be used to record them for posterity.

Until 2020 my main use for masks was when editing images in Photoshop, but now we must wear a mask when we go shopping.  I’ve found that the best place for my mask is hanging on the indicator stalk of my car.  It makes it easy to remember.  I’ve seen them dangling from rear-view mirrors, which is not such a good idea, as it’s distracting.

CV-19 has brought out lots of signs and some of them have quite inventive spelling.  This sign in a pub, enforcing a one-way system, has a minimalist approach to the spelling of queue.  Perhaps Manuel from Fawlty Towers works there?  I’ve cloned out the pub’s logo to save them from embarrassment.

Of course, once we have been out and about our potentially contaminated masks need to be washed and dried.  I’ve got into the habit of putting my mask straight into the washing machine on my return home.  It’s very useful having the washing machine close to the door.

These small details of life under CV-19 are worth recording.  In the future we can use them to reflect on what it was like in 2020 (and 2021?).

Stay safe.

This is turning into a natural history website!

Lockdown has given me lots of extra time to examine my Oxfordshire* garden and its wildlife, more specifically the life that feeds or lives/dies, on my eryngiums.

* Yes, I know I have a Wiltshire postal address, but that’s a quirk of Royal Mail’s systems.

I’ve also had a chance to try out my Olympus’s “Pro Capture” mode for getting just the right shot of a moving subject.  It makes flying insect photography less hard – but it’s still not easy!

I tried slower objects first.  Their wings move slower, so in theory you can stop the movement with a fast shutter speed.  The problem is that they fly in random  directions, so you need a small aperture to have some chance of getting them in focus.  With this comma butterfly I caught it just taking off, when it hadn’t moved far from the plane of focus.

I failed to successfully photograph flying bumblebees many times, but eventually my patience paid off.  As I photographed the white-tailed bumblebee flying in from the right, the other bee popped out from behind the flower to balance the composition.  Both these images were taken with the Olympus 40-150 Pro lens.  It’s really a very good lens, though big and heavy for a M43 lens.

On one flower there was a bee that wasn’t flying.  There is usually a good reason for that, and in this case it was the attentions of a Candy Stripe spider.  It had been lurking under the spiky leaves of the eryngium, and when the bee triggered a web strand it pounced.  I had to lie on the ground under the flower with my Olympus 60mm macro lens as close to the spider as possible.  It got another bee today.

It’s worth taking a closer look at the plants in your garden, or a nearby park, to see what’s living, or dying, on them.

 

Heading towards unlockdown

In the UK we are still in lockdown, though we are now heading towards July 4th.  On that day we can do some things that we haven’t done for ages, such as stay overnight at someone’s house, or go to the pub.  We still have to observe “social distancing”, though the rules are getting very confusing and blurred.  What hasn’t changed is the need to get exercise, so lockdown walks are the order of the day.  I call them “Photo Safaris”, as it makes them seem more exciting, and gives them another purpose.

On one of my walk routes there is an old water tanker that has lots of lovely paint on it.  It’s worth a little stop to capture its loveliness.  There are multiple layers of different colours, paint runs, cracked texture and rust.  Using my 14-45mm lens I was able to frame just the bit I wanted.

On a recent walk round our local wind farm the sky had lots of lovely fluffy clouds in it.  Some had dark bases and looked a little threatening, so I thought that a B&W/HDR treatment might work. I composed for just three of the five turbines, and edited the image in Snapseed on my phone.  It’s looking rather “Independence Day”, which I think suits it.

A bit further down the path there were a couple of beautiful pyramidal orchids.  I fitted my 60mm Olympus macro lens and got down nice and low to get the right viewpoint.  Photographers should always be prepared to lie on the ground! The close focusing lens has allowed me to throw the background out of focus enough to make the flowers stand out.

I look forward to another lockdown Photo Safari soon.

By way of contrast, it’s black and white.

Sometimes an image works in black and white.  When we say that, most of the time we are really talking about an image with many shades of grey rather than just black and white.  This post is about images with just those two tones.  I’ve used Photoshop with all these images to take away the colour, reduce the range of tones, and give a huge jump in contrast.

I was testing out my new lens with Olympus’ “Pro Capture” mode on the camera.  It’s a nifty pre-shot system that starts taking images as soon as you half-press the shutter button, and finalises when you fully press the shutter button.  It’s great for getting the perfect moment.  Here the jackdaw’s primary feathers have the same sort of pattern as the central part of the TV aerial.

 

This macro image is an iris sawfly larva on an iris leaf.  I lit the background with an LED light and then exposed so the larva was in silhouette.  You can see the damage it has done to the leaf.  The contrasty treatment has simplified the image.

This dead fly was on a window sill in rainy North Wales. It looks like it is supplicating itself before a monarch.  I used macro focusing mode on  my compact camera.  The grey sky background was turned to white in Photoshop as before, and it left a few shades of grey in the wings.  I thought that too much was lost if they went black.  This sort of image make you realise just how hairy a fly is.

Only black and white; who needs shades of grey?

Fancy a remote talk for your club?

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 in Photography” – covering Camera Movement, Subject Movement, or both together.

Close-up and Macro photography” – an introduction to equipment and techniques for this fascinating area .

Drop me an email (info@galephotography) or go to my Contact page and send a message.

Looking forward to hearing from you!