Tag Archives: winter

Pump up the needle…

We are entering the dead time – deep winter – a time when really nothing seems to happen but in fact is some of the most productive of the whole year as few people want to take time off at … Continue reading

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Like a never ending…

Too cold and slippery under foot at the moment….still in the next few days it is forecast to go up to 11 degrees C – just in time for Christmas…who said there isn’t a god.

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When the snow brings the snow…

  The first snow of the season ( I hope it is the last but I suspect it is far too early for such wishes).   Bit of a head cold so the last thing I needed was to go wading … Continue reading

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Face in the Crowd

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One way ticket to a mad man

One of the joys (?) of photography is that you have to work with the available light.   Yes you can enhance things in post production but without really good light you start to struggle.  Yesterday at Stowe garden was … Continue reading

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Winter sun

In an attempt to purge my system of all the political nonsense floating around this at the moment we visited the most political landscape in Britain – Stowe in Buckinghamshire – short of a busman’s holiday.

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Making the most of dull

I knew a photographer who apparently liked the flat dull light of a grey day, I can’t say I do.   It makes things so much more difficult.  When I was young I used to devour articles about the wonder … Continue reading

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Winter is wearing

Another cold day in east Leicestershire, not cold as in the Russian Steppes cold (although the wind is blowing from that direction).   No this was cold that just seemed to seep slowly but surely through the layers of clothes … Continue reading

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Making the most of what is at hand

Yesterday saw the English winter at its most normal that is a bit of this and that but nothing too extreme.   I understand that recently it has been 20 plus degrees celsius below in eastern Germany, which by any … Continue reading

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Another day at the office…

  Many years ago when I followed a regular life style, given what I did regular was a stretching it a bit,  I used to have just another day at the office.    Not much happened and you got on … Continue reading

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