Season’s Greetings
Posted in photos on Dec 24th, 2010
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This little cutie was begging for another piece of the muesli bar that I was eating.
Today we went to the Thatcham Nature Discovery Centre, for a wildlife photography course. I learnt far more on this course than I did at the Twilight Photography one. I think the course and the teacher were just better suited to the way I like to learn. I’m really pleased with today’s pictures (which are [...]
Twilight Photography
Posted in photos on Sep 19th, 2010
Yesterday Paul and I went to South Hill Park, for a workshop in twilight and low light photography. While it was still light, we went for a walk around the lake and staked out a good spot to take photos of the sunset. We then set the cameras to Manual (scary!) and started playing around [...]
Living History
Posted in culture, photos, re-enactment on Jul 18th, 2010
A couple of weekends ago we went to see the Fairfax Battalion putting on a Civil War re-enactment at Mapledurham. As always, I took a bunch of photos. We spent a long time chatting to the barber-surgeon, and I was surprised to find out about some of the more delicate operations that could be done [...]
Natural History Museum
Posted in culture, exhibitions, inspiration, nature, photos on Jul 16th, 2010
This is the Natural History Museum in London. Quite a typical view – looking over the central hall from the giant sequoia tree, over the top of the big dinosaur skeleton, to the statue of Darwin on the main staircase. Usually people are so busy looking at the dinosaur that it simply doesn’t occur to [...]
Portwrinkle
Posted in inspiration, nature, photos on Jul 14th, 2010
While we were in Devon, we thought it would be rude to go home without paying a little visit to a beach. We were told that Portwrinkle was the closest beach that didn’t require climbing down a million steps, so that’s where we went. As you can see, Portwrinkle beach is made from stones and [...]
Exeter Cathedral
Posted in inspiration, photos on Jul 13th, 2010
It’s a month now since we went to Devon, and we stopped at Exeter on the way down. We arrived at Exeter Cathedral at about four o’clock on a gloriously sunny afternoon, and it turned out to be the perfect time to take photographs of the stonework and stained glass. The higher up the outside [...]
Today we took a trip out to the Wolf Conservation Trust at Beenham for their open day. They’re not usually open to the general public, so the place was very busy. We took our cameras, and so did almost everybody else, but we were saddened to notice that the bigger the lens, the ruder the [...]
Yesterday we went to a Live Crafts food & craft fair at Mapledurham House. The highlights of the day for us turned out to be the food fair, and the birds of prey. Ben Potter had brought along owls, eagles, a kite and a vulture. Sadly we missed most of the actual displays, but Bramley the [...]