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street
Digital Photography

In

It’s totally grim out there; cold, wet, dark. On the plus side this means I don’t have to feel guilty about being snuggled up indoors for most of the day watching (mostly bad) television and drinking lots of coffee.…

me
Digital Photography

Nice ‘n easy

Ha, take THAT grey hairs! Blatted you with Nice ‘n Easy #117D ‘Natural Medium Cool Brown’ which is actually almost black when I use it because my hair’s so curly and soaks up the dye like a sponge. Actually…

urban-tree
Digital Photography

Down my street

Well, not exactly my street but it’s walking distance and a bit more interesting… …you never know who you might meet or what you might find just lying around… …and after you’ve kicked through all the leaves and nosed…

gold-leaf
Digital Photography

Into the darkness

I have a feeling that from here on in any photos I take are going to much more wintry than autumnal, so here’s a last look at the golden tones that have been so wonderful these last few weeks.…

fern-1
Digital Photography

Ferns

I love ferns. They’re a bit spooky aren’t they? I think it’s the organised symmetery and curled-finger-like new growth. It’s mind blowing too how they’ve been around looking exactly the same for millions of years. I’ll brush past them…

beech-leaves
Digital Photography

Happy days

Every day for the last week I would check out of the window and study the weather forecast hoping that we wouldn’t suffer too much in the way of wind or rain so that we would make it to…

pola-berries
Instant Photography

Red

My opportunities for being outside in daylight hours, let alone taking any photos is minimal these days to say the least. Each day I pass these berries on the way to work and think how delicious they look, so…

bw-cow
Digital Photography

Mono

It’s one of the most colourful times of the year, the trees are amazing and every shade of yellow, red and bronze you can imagine. So what could be more fitting than a quick little collection of black and…

pola-autumn-1
Instant Photography

Instant autumn

When the leaves change their colour in the autumn you suddenly realise how many trees there are in the city… Both taken with Polaroid Spectra + Softone (edgecut) film…

lomo-lca-wires
Photography Tutorials

Vignetting

What is a vignette? Vignetting is the darkening effect on the corners of an image – once the bane of a photographers life, they are now positively encouraged, enhanced or even added afterwards in Photoshop! 1. .2684, 2. 05980006…