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Category Archives: Spring
A Bright New Morning…
Over the years our views and tastes change. We also acquire new skills and interests. We also start to forget some of the things that once made us us. An example from my own life is that I once … Continue reading
Posted in Gardens, Photography, Remastered, Spring, Winter
Tagged bulb, Coot, Daffodil, Farne Islands, Fishing Boats, Flowers, Fulmar, Harbour, Moorhen, North Sea, photography, Seahouses, winter
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20 things you never knew about the Sony A7 Mk 2
I really do apologise for the crap clickbait title to this blog…I must try better. Anyway the real point of this post is that it is just over one year since I bought my almost new A7 Mk 2 and … Continue reading
Posted in autumn, Gardens, Photography, Spring, Summer, Winter
Tagged autumn, Bees, Bradgate Park, Butterfly, Cattle, Cows, Dawn, Flooding, Flowers, garden, london, photography, portrait, Ratcliffe on Soar power station, Sony A7 Mk 2, Spring, Street Photography, Summer, The Photography Show, winter, woman, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, YSP
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Back to some decent weather…
As with most things decent weather is a relative statement. One person’s sunny day is another’s pollen hell. The past week has been marked by a significant amount of rain which is what we have really needed for some time … Continue reading
Posted in Gardens, Photography, Spring
Tagged Bee, Flowers, Gardens, hare, photography, Spring, weather
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Housebound….
For reasons that are too boring to go into I am in effect housebound for the next few days. Not to put too fine a point on it it is driving me and certainly my wife CRAZY. Perhaps the most … Continue reading
Posted in Gardens, Photography, Sculpture, Spring
Tagged Adobe, Archive, Back Up, DNG, Housebound, Kodak, New iMac, photography, RAW Files
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A bit Tom and Dick….
Well I’m a bit banged up at the moment – shouldn’t be nothing serious but you never can tell. Anyway, I have managed to have a walk around the garden and snap a few shots.
Posted in Gardens, Photography, Spring
Tagged Acer, garden, Leaf, photography, Spring, Wisteria
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Mr Blue Sky…
As we are just about to receive whatever storm Hannah has to deliver to us I suspect dramatic evening clouds will be gone for a day or so. As I write this the sky is cold and slate grey.
In an English country garden…
Perhaps not a ‘country’ garden but they are certainly from an English garden….
Posted in Gardens, Photography, Spring
Tagged Bluebells, bulbs, Flowers, garden, photography, Spring
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Infinite Cubing….
It is nice to learn one new thing each day. Today I learnt that cubing is in fact a recognised word (I know that is a very slippery slope in english compared say to french.) Cubing according to the Urban … Continue reading
Posted in Apple Pencil, Art, Digital Painting, Gardens, Macro, Photography, Procreate, Spring
Tagged Apple Pencil, bulbs, Digital Painting, garden, photography, portrait, Procreate, River Soar, Spring, woman
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A bit of a rough start….
April didn’t start too well – I was struck down with the a spring virus that whilst not particularly life threatening made me feel off it for almost two weeks. It wasn’t helped by the continued Brexit nonsense. Finally this … Continue reading
Posted in Gardens, iphone, Macro, Photography, Spring
Tagged Dawn, Flowers, garden, Garden Centres, Jubilee Park, Nostell Park, photography, River Soar, Sculptures, trees
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To see if he…
After a break it was back out on the Ironstone Benefice trail yesterday with the artist David Manley. It was a hard slog and at times I wasn’t sure were going to be able to finished the day – fortunately we … Continue reading
Posted in Ironstone Beniface, Photography, Spring
Tagged Bottesford, church, Grantham Canal, Graveyard, Ironstone Benefice, photography, Redmile, Stathen
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