Tag Archives: Blue Sky

Creating Content in the Sunshine…

Posted on April 9, 2025 by Guthlac

What is a man to do?   He needs a large number of digital images to test something.  He has already used a number of low-quality Jpegs.  Now he needs full fat 61 MP images.  He could just run the shutter … Continue reading →

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Something Strange in the Neighbourhood….

Posted on June 1, 2021 by Guthlac

So there I was sitting in the garden on this glorious first day of summer waiting to see what birds might come along when I looked up and noticed something strange – a jet aircraft on a very unusual flight … Continue reading →

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Walk in the Sunshine….

Posted on May 3, 2020 by Guthlac

So this weekend should have been the May Day bank holiday (Public Holiday) however this year it has been moved to Friday so we can celebrate (?) the 75th anniversary of the end of the second World War of the … Continue reading →

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An English Country Garden….

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Guthlac

How many sweat flowers grow In an English country garden? Phillip Guyler / Johnny Griggs / Traditional   So the song goes…however, it doesn’t say anything about hay fever aggravating asthma!   Just to add to joy it would seem … Continue reading →

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Contrails….

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Guthlac

  I was having a conversation with my son the other day and I explained just how clear the skies are now that Heathrow is all but closed.   He couldn’t quite believe that the megahub would have such an impact … Continue reading →

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Making hay….

Posted on December 6, 2019 by Guthlac

We are now back to indeterminant grey again – the clouds break for a shot while and a bright blue yonder appears only to be quickly enveloped once more by the grey of winter.   Because of this it is nice … Continue reading →

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Mr Blue Sky…

Posted on April 26, 2019 by Guthlac

  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.

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A very long time ago…

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Guthlac

  A long time ago I read the Arthur C Clarke short story The Sentinel.   It was the inspiration for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey and formed the first act.  In the story a structure of incalculable age was … Continue reading →

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All in a morning’s….

Posted on August 5, 2018 by Guthlac

I never really understood just how much Ernst Haas has influenced my photography until really quite recently.

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Some flowers in your hair

Posted on April 8, 2017 by Guthlac

Another unseasonably warm spring day – perhaps this is going to be the way of things to come?   If this is the case then I don’t like to think what the temperatures much further south are going to get. … Continue reading →

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