Unbelievably I’m in the last week of my 365 project. While I haven’t reached a final conclusion, it’s hard to imagine stopping taking a photo every day – I certainly haven’t run out of inspiration. The opposite really; there are still masses of types of photos I want to take, and there is significant room […]

One of my pictures has made it into the Harrogate Advertiser again this week. There was a particularly amazing sunset, and they invited readers to send in pictures. So I did. And there it was on page 6! I’ve decided I’m going to start a photographic scrapbook, where I can put bits and pieces like […]

Continuing the spirit of my previous post, I’ve got 123 photos to go in my 365 project, and here are some of the photos I want to take.. (links are to tag searches, so the results will change as I upload/tag more photos). Danbo! Portraits The Red Kites Water drops Selfies Street Shots Light trails […]

Well, that’s 2011 nearly over. While perhaps a little early for a comprehensive review, it’s certainly been an event filled year. In fact, I’ve struggled to fit the whole year into just 200 photos for the album, although that may me more a reflection of the fact I’m generally taking more photos these days (thanks […]

Wow – I’m halfway through my 365/6 project. Yesterday was my 183rd photo, dedicated to Space Dog in his capsule: I have to say it has been an absolute pleasure. None of these photos have been a chore. There have been varying degrees of effort put in for sure, and large variation in quality, but […]

As the regular reader will know (Hi Steve – how are you, by the way?), I recently-ish acquired some cheap extension tubes for me camera. These are basically cylinders of metal that move the lens away from the sensor, thereby reducing minimum focussing distance (at the cost of light and depth-of-field). This enables them to […]

One of my ambitions for the year was to submit a photograph for publication to a magazine. Haven’t quite got around to that yet, but one of my photos was published in this week’s Harrogate Advertiser. The text is sort of 80% based on what I sent to. Sadly the paper don’t pay anything for […]

Pays to do your research. Turns out flickr only hosts 200 photos for free, which is clearly a limitation if you’re doing a 365 project! While I’m only on No. 138, I wanted to sort something out before I got near 200 and started not being able to see the pics, so I’ve moved all […]

Can’t resist. I want to do a proper write up of the extension tubes – showing what they look like, how they fit together, and the impact they have on expsoure, focal distance, and depth-of-field. Until that point, here’s some of the photos I’ve taken with them thus far!

I just found out that I won a photo competition! It was a local church who were running it, and I entered the photo below into the water category. It won the category, and was also voted best in show!! Chuffed, to be honest. I think it’s probably the best photo I’ve ever taken (best […]