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A poppy head shot with the iphone hipstamatic
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This is my small patch of poppies I’ve been photographing in the garden in previous blogs posts. They’re now all coming to flower. I photographed this lot this morning. I’ve uploaded a shot to my ePHOTOzine gallery showing a low…
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I cycled round Clumber Park this afternoon a 30km route, and on the way stopped off at one of my favourite woodland scenes to take this. The reel has been there for about five years and is starting to rot…
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A reproduction divers helmet I’ve been meaning to photograph for ages. I placed the studio light inside and used the modelling light as illumination. Then I added a self portrait behind the glass in Photoshop The photo is taken with…
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I’m making the most of the poppy explosion in the garden, and the rain with this shot. A poppy petal fell off, so I placed it on the garden table and framed up tightly using the 100mm macro on a…
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A close up abstract of a poppy petal…such large and delicate things – they don’t stand a chance in the wind and rain.
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Plan A was to photograph tonight’s lunar eclipse, but with all the will in the world, and no access to the largest wind machine in the universe, the cloud isn’t going to shift. So there’s no moon and I need…
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Well actually having looked it up, it’s not really a caterpillar, it’s a larvae from the sawfly. I get these every year on my Solomon’s Seal plant that I photographed earlier in my photo365 series. The species is known as…
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“Never shoot into the sun” was something you were always told not to do.ย That was in the days of standard coated lenses with minimal exposure control. The modern cameras are pretty good at coping, as can be seen here…
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We had a pond. At one end was a water feature on an incline with a few pond type flowers around the cascade and a stray poppy. The filter pump went so we decided to fill it in. Bricks from…

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