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tudor house - southampton
Digital Life Photography

Tudor House

Back as a kid in the 80s I remember going on school trips to the Tudor House museum in Southampton (much of the city was flattened by enemy bombs during WWII so this was one of the few ‘old’…

bee visiting artichoke
Digital Photography

Artichokes

These artichokes aren’t in my own garden but aren’t they awesome! I’m very tempted to grow some next year; not so much for eating, more for looking at and photographing (and attracting the bees)……

thistle
Digital Photography

Thistle

I don’t want to get all camera-geeky on you but I just wanted to say how much I am loving my latest lens [admin: if you’re reading this, don’t panic, it’s not another new lens, it’s the one I…

pony and tower blocks
Digital Photography

Urban pony

Here’s another photo from Friday when I went to Weston Shore. If you’re wondering why you’ve never heard of this south coast beach ‘resort’ before, it’s probably because it’s sandwiched between an oil-refinery and a relatively intimidating, brutalist sink…

dill
Digital Photography

Heat

Oh dear, I’m really not accustomed to heat, and today it is hot! I’m English, I am designed to thrive when there’s a fine drizzle, heavy cloud and/or mist so it’s a bit of a shock to the system…

calshot castle, hampshire
Digital Photography

Tinkering

I’ve been tinkering with Adobe Lightroom recently and I am loving it! Whereas Photoshop can turn its hand to many, many tasks (and very well, too) Lightroom is geared just towards photography. I took these at the seaside over…

agapanthus - pentax k1000
Digital Film Photography

Both

It is innate in us all to want to record the wold around us; to paint a picture, to take a photograph. Don’t you think? film – Pentax K1000 and some Fuji 200 Superia film For some it is…

treasure
Digital Life Photography

Weekend

This weekend there was hidden treasure in the garden… Cafe’s (not this one, this one was more photogenic though)… Dunking… Berries (this is a rowan tree I think)… Purple (I grew this)… Listening (to Beyonce’s new album, which I…

sunny
Digital Life Photography

Sunny

Sunnyfields is our local organic farm on the edge of the New Forest. It’s a great place for Saturday brunch (organic bacon and free-range eggs in a bap – scrummers) and to pick up groceries. I almost ended up…