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Post COVID…

That was two weeks I’ll never get back but I have come out the otherside with few apparent long term issues (this may be tempting providence…I hope not but…). During this time of isolation I have sat about a lot … Continue reading

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A Bit of This and That….

I continue my quests to make my iPhone capture better images and I am afraid the jury has returned its verdict and surprise surprise I am now having add two seconds to my capturing experience by opening the phone and … Continue reading

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Catching Up #2 – New Lens

I like to start a fresh each month but I haven’t had chances to publish these last two posts from June. This one is a selection of photographs I made as a result of testing me new 18mm lens. Not … Continue reading

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Catching Up # 01…Compton Verney…

Another day another art exhibition. This time it was a return to Compton Verney and their summer exhibitions of David Batchelor’s work, a selection of portraits which were both photographs and a couple of paintings from the National Portrait Gallery … Continue reading

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Bird Song

As I prepare this for publications my world is surrounded by birdsong. There are far worse background noises in the world at the moment.

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Round, Round Round…

There was a time many years ago that I could set my watch by the RAF. 14:55 hrs every weekday, the RAF at Cottesmore* didn’t fly on weekends nor bank holidays, three tornadoes would come shouting up the Mease valley … Continue reading

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France has Sunflowers….

With the Tour de France only a few weeks away I thought this images was almost appropriate. Ok so the cyclists were hardly from the Tour de France (One day perhaps?) and the yellow flowers were buttercups rather than sunflowers … Continue reading

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Erratum….

In my previous post I claimed that I was hand holding a 600 mm lenses and it was crazy that I could do that. Well it turns out things just got a whole more crazy as I had set the … Continue reading

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Strange Old Day….

Most of the day I’ve been trying to capture the resident Wren singing and failing spectacularly! I know this sounds paranoid but I could swear they little bugger is doing it on purpose…in fact I write this I can hear … Continue reading

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There Goes the Neighbourhood….

Perhaps they’re a happy family – it’s just that they’re so loud! Or perhaps they’re a right pain in the neck with the kids tuning on the adults. Either way you know it when a family of Starlings descend on … Continue reading

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