First Winter in the Lake District
I am slowly settling into my new home in the Lake District. I have not as yet got to go into the mountains to the extent that I had hoped – this will come as less time is focused on the house
Category: Landscape
Photographing the landscape in all its forms
Time for an update
Time for a bit of an update. There have been fewer posts recently but there have been reasons for that. A major one, which took up the first half of the year, was finishing my degree, which I started when I retired.
Direction of Travel
A different wander today. If your hobby is astronomy, as mine has been since I was ten years old, expect to wander in all sorts of directions. Why? Because astronomy touches many areas, and you can as a result acquire many other
Editing Images – Aesthetics
Above is a standard digital photo taken with a modern mirrorless digital camera using a 24-70mm lens. It has had some minor editing in Lightroom including some cropping to change aspect ratio, and to balance the exposure of the sky and foreground.
Landscape Photography 2
Posts are like buses, none for a while and then a flurry of activity. My last post covered the work I’d been doing for a university project. During the break, I had a short trip to the Lake District staying in Grasmere.
Medium Format Adventures 7
Time for a progress report on the project with the RB67. I realise I have been a bit remiss in not providing an update on the saga of Clee Hill. Eventually on the Saturday following the aborted attempt I did succeed in
Medium Format Adventures 6
I did think of branding this post as: “The Trials and Tribulations of Photography in the UK…”. For my university course, I need to take some landscape photographs. I have chosen a location, and I undertook at digital test shoot in January.
Shropshire Hills 1
I have a new project to work on over the next couple of months. The project will use B&W medium format film. Before getting to that stage, I needed to run a digital test shoot. For my genre I have chosen industrial
Lake District – Day 3
Starting in Ambleside, Day 3 was very grey with none of the local peaks such as Red Screes or Fairfield visible as they were covered in cloud and mist. Down in the town it was damp and misty. The first port of
Lake District – Day 2
The second day’s weather was never going to be as good as the first’s had been. As expected, it was a grey day, with low cloud and mist. The target for the day was a more leisurely visit to Keswick, to include