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Tag Archives: photography
Continuing a theme….
I know, I know, I getting to be a real bore but one last time. These images were captured on a camera that most of the talking heads on the Internet wouldn’t be seen dead with – I don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Corvid 19, Gardens, Photography, Summer
Tagged Bumble Bee, Butterfly, Flowers, garden, Honey Bee, hot summer days, photography, Pollination, Sony A6000, Summer
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A Town Called…Art in the new Normal…
My first real experience of art in the new normal – I know the other day I visited the Hepworth but that was really low key compared to the full blown sensory experience of being amongst a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Corvid 19, Photography, Street Photography, Summer
Tagged Covid, Joana Vasconcelos, Lunar, Moon, photography, Sculpture, South Yorkshire, Telephone, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, YSP
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Variations upon a theme….
As I was doing my best curmudgeon impression the other day about the sins of the hybrid camera I thought I would remaster these three images from a time when the word hybrid was hardly ever used in everyday … Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged Canon 5D Mk1, Dawn, Emley Moor, photography, South Yorkshire, Spring
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I’m not a hybrid shooter…
There was a time not too long ago when photographers & videographers inhabited different worlds. They used different cameras and spoke a different language. Then the mirrorless revolution started and the boundaries blurred. Today, it would appear that all … Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged 4:2:2, 8K, Aperture, camera, Canon R5, Codec, Covid, IBIS, Image Stabilization, ISO, Leica, Lutz, New Normal, Overheating, photography, Video
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Tales from the River Bank No. 2…..
Apparently it is going to be the hottest day of the year today and I would believe it as walking through the mist this morning was feeling a lot warmer than many days have recently at mid afternoon. Whilst … Continue reading
Posted in Jubilee Park, Photography, Summer
Tagged Dawn, Jubilee Park, Mist, photography, River Soar, Summer, sunrise
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Tales From the River Bank…
Sometimes even if the light is really not that good you just have to try your best to get something…as well as get a bit sunburnt!
Posted in Photography, Summer
Tagged Kegworth, photography, Ratcliffe on Soar power station, River Soar, Sunburn
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Ordinary Photos for Ordinary Lives…
Whilst many of us try to pretend it isn’t the case deep down we know it is true. We lead ordinary lives. Not for us the highs and lows of others but rather the mundane. Occasionally some extraordinary thing … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Summer
Tagged Agriculture, Canon R5, Cattle, Cows, Dawn, Farming, Mallard Ducks, photography, Post Box, Rural, sunrise, Wistow
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15 Minutes by the Climbing Rose….
I always find that I am fighting a losing battle trying to capture bees – especially with my antiquated equipment. Hoverflies on the other hand are far more obliging.
Posted in Gardens, Macro, Summer
Tagged Bees, garden, photography, Pollination, rose
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If you Build it, they will come…
There was a time when I was the only person whoever ventured into the damp paddocks and fields of Ratby Meadows. This was a self deceit of course but that is how it always felt as I explored the … Continue reading
Posted in Corvid 19, Photography, Summer
Tagged Corvid 19, Everards Pasture, Field of Dreams, photography, Ratby Meadows, Summer, Thistle
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How to Kill the Buzz…
So two weeks in and what little reserve of fun I had has totally evaporated. Every day around 4pm I hit the UK Covid dashboard for the latest figures on just how the infection in Leicester is doing and I … Continue reading
Posted in Apple Pencil, Corvid 19, Gardens, Photography, Procreate, Summer
Tagged Apple Pencil, Bee, Cate Blanchett, City of Leicester, Covid, Flower, garden, Lockdown, photography, Pollination, portrait, Procreate, sketch, woman
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