Recently, my wife and I spent a lovely day in two New Forest locations, Denny Wood and Blashford Lakes near Ringwood. I have mentioned Denny wood before having visited there to take pictures of the very tame birds. Today was no exception and I wanted to share this special place with my wife. It did […]
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Each year at my local camera club, we have an AV competition. The competition is basically the creation, presenting and scoring of a “show” in one of two categories. The traditional category is the basic AV format, a series of images set to a soundtrack, this must be the sole work of the entrant and
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We are now into March and I cannot remember such a damp start to a year for a long time. It seems like it has been raining pretty much every weekend since the new year, and when it is not raining its usually mid week, so I am stuck at work. Even when it does
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Its been too long since I lasted posted here, there are no real excuses apart from the usual pressures of modern day to day life. As I have stated many times I am trying to improve my woodland photography and Autumn should give me the best chances of some wonderful images. After all, nature is
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I recently had the opportunity to visit Scotland’s Temperate Rain Forest on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula. This beautiful part of the world is home to some of the last remaining Temperate Rain Forest. Two of our friends; PJ and JJ retired to the peninsula a few years ago and invited us to stay for a holiday,
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On Sunday I decided I had to break my period of inactivity and get out and take some photographic images of woodland. I had just read a magazine that listed some places to visit in the New Forest. I Had been to them all before but one, I had not visited for a very long
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Well it was two weeks ago. Every year there is always a few weeks in the spring when the woodland in the south of England bursts into a beautiful blue colour scheme. The Bluebells have arrived. Despite trying many times over the years, I have never yet got an image that I thing nails what
It’s Bluebell Season Again! What can you do? Read More »
Well this is one of those years where the weather conspires against you. Working full time means I can usually only get out to take photos at the weekends or in the evenings (unless I am on holiday). So far this year most weekends have been disappointing an uninspiring. This is the basic wisdom behind
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Today I wanted to get out and take some images as I have been “missing in action” for a few weeks. I decided to go to a nearby nature reserve called Kingley Vale. Kingley Vale is internationally renowned for its ancient Yew woodland. When I arrived, it was after dawn but the sun was only
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I have seen a few images lately, both at my local camera club, and also online, where people have added “artistry” to an images by blending in unrelated images as layers and then editing the results in Photoshop. I have been living with this image of Idsworth Church on my photo frame for a while;
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