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This honesty seed pod is looking a little worse for wear and I’m surprised it’s not split and scattered its seeds yet. Photographed in summer they are a lush green – backlighting still works now and creates an interesting glowing…
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I bought an old cupboard to paint black & white and use as a camera equipment storage unit, as I have stuff all over the place. I’m currently preparing the surface for the paint job. Taken with Hipstamatic on the…
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Tonight I’m introducing my new model (well I’ve had her a while but she’s new to viewers of this blog) I am using her to test flash set ups before using them in real life situations and for consistency when…
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My trip to Ikea on Sunday resulted in the purchase of one of their heavy duty stools which I assembled and decided to photograph a stage of the process using the iPHone and b&w Hipstamatic for my photo365 project.
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Here is the tenth of 12 sets of pictures from my photo365 project. This one covers the month of October 2011 Click on the photo to see a larger version See the individual pictures each day on my blog
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I was in Ikea’s cafe eating meatballs…yum…and spotted a curtain backdrop and instantly saw my picture of the day. Thanks to Alex for standing up in a crowded cafe and humouring me, much to her embarrassment. All in the name…
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I was taking photos of berries earlier this morning backlit against the morning sun using an old Pentax M series 80-200mm zoom on the K20D, and noticed the background tree shape, and decided to switch attention to the tree. Adjusting…
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Stanage Edge this evening. I went to shoot the sunset and then star trails, the sunset was a bit lack lustre but the stars were out. I spent about an hour in the dark on the edge – it was,…
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Trying out a new combination of an old Vivitar 3x converter I just acquired and Pentax 100mm macro to create a 300mm f/8 macro lens. It lets you get really close (from a distance) Here’s one of the shots of…
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An interesting evening started out at this post box on the road over to Thorpe Salvin. I’d been considering shooting this for a few weeks, and tonight the sky was right. The only thing I hadn’t taken into consideration was…

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