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I bought this old postcard from eBay and photographed it in situ. I also had a postcard of the Priory but the photo needed to be taken from inside the school playground and it’s been closed and fenced off. It’s…
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A marble resting on fingers, backlit using a soft box covered studio light. I desaturated to give an almost monchrome feel.
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View from the park this morning. I was just out a bit too late to catch the thicker mist, but then again I was up at 3:00am learning how to stack star trails that I’d just taken.
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Today was another remarkably warm day, and as the sun was low in the sky shadows were interesting. This is my rusty metal resting near a brick wall, and a garden chair causing the shadows. I split the elements in…
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A still-life shot taken using my current favourite combination…the Olympus EP2, Toy lens and +10 macro This is straight out of camera no editing – can you tell what it it?
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The fifth in a series documenting the erection of the new Worksop cinema using an iPhone in HDR mode.
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A garden fairy taken with the Olympus EP2, toy lens and +10 macro adaptor. Her head was positioned to one side of the frame and the background considered to give a nice softness.
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My Olympus EP2 and Toy lens fitted with 10x macro lens provide more fun as I played around in the kitchen. I was shooting surface top still-lifes of various kitchen things, and then poked the camera into the kitchen utensil…
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When I was young I took a job delivering Yellow Pages (telephone directory) in my spare time in the Wadsley area of Sheffield. I was paid something like 7p per book to deliver. and it helped fund my photography while…
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Another shot taken with my current favourite lens…the toy lens with a macro adaptor attached. The focusing and halation / aberrations is wonderful for macro work. I love just moving the camera around slowly to obtain focus point. In this…

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