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Canon EOS 40D

food-hut
Digital Photography

A day in the country

There are at least 101 things that need doing at home, but when it’s a Sunday and the sun is shining then the only civilised thing to do is pack up a picnic and head out to the seaside/countryside……

russian-dolls-1
Digital Photography

BIG + small

All the little girls I was friends with at school seemed to have a set of matryoshka dolls in their home. Because I never did I’ve always hankered after them and now, at the tender age of 40 I…

dusk
Digital Photography

Dusk

It’s 10.30 at night and just about dark, although there’s still a glow in the west. I love midsummer and the long, long days and the dusk is so beautiful – I’m trying to remember each and every one…

faces
Digital Photography

Faces

Everybody responds to a face. You can’t not look at a face when it’s put before you in photographic form, they draw you in and make you look. Here are just a few amazing portraits I’ve found on flickr,…

calshot-beach
Digital Photography

Calshot

In Southampton, all the local seasidey places are quite urban and bleak in a 1980s USSR sort of way. Brutalist. Terminal. This is ok though, I like this. I like the juxtaposition. You won’t find many (or any) tourists…

green-leaves
Digital Photography

Leafiness abounds

Everything looks so different now that the trees are growing leaves again; colourful and inviting. I love looking up at the sky through the branches……

ponies
Digital Photography

Photo Friday – Brown

I was spoilt for choice with today’s Photo Friday, but I couldn’t resist this New Forest pony. I love nipping down the road and watching them wandering freely and happily, even when they’re soaked through from the rain, as…

bluebells
Digital Photography

Blue, blue, electric blue

The weekend was gorgeous. The leaves are almost fully out now so it must be time for bluebells! They are so wonderful and grow in huge swathes beneath the beech trees, just before the canopy of leaves completely obscures…

lensbaby1
Photography Tutorials

How to use a Lensbaby 3G

I’m the sort of person who does things first then reads instructions when things catch fire/blow up/fall to bits. All too often I find out that it was actually ME who was doing things wrong and the misbehaving item…