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The beginning of August was busy! Rather strangely, though, I don’t appear to have a lot of photos to show for it.
The beginning of August was busy! Rather strangely, though, I don’t appear to have a lot of photos to show for it.
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There are times in your life when things get you down and, no matter how hard you try, you can’t hide it. I think the beginning of this year has been a good example of this for me. Despite the warming temperatures and the longer days, and everything I’ve yearned for over the last six … Read more QUIET
I’ve now officially been a DSLR photographer for 15 years! Although I got my first digital camera in 2000 – an Olympus Camedia 350 Zoom, then a Fuji S5500 in 2004 – it wasn’t until the 19th of May 2008 that I purchased my first DSLR. The camera I bought – the system I decided … Read more Digital In 15 – 19th May 2008
Despite my January optimism, February has been quite a disappointment. Mostly the issue is timing, with sometimes a decent amount of sunshine during the week but then densely overcast skies at the weekends. It’s infuriating. It didn’t help that my car had something of a fit while we were visiting friends in Lincolnshire – enough … Read more Not a Fab Feb
Gimme a Break of Dawn It’s happening at last! The days are getting noticeably longer. It’s no longer nighttime when we arrive at work, nor when we leave at the end of the day. Granted it’s barely light – dawn and dusk – but it’s a start! It’s cold, though, and that’s still an issue. … Read more Daylight At Last – January Update
After a relatively warm November, the winter temperatures definitely arrived. Over the last few weeks temperatures have dipped below freezing repeatedly overnight, sometimes to the tune of 3 or 4 degrees, and one or two days they’ve failed to get above freezing all day too. Although the temperatures climbed again before the end of the … Read more December Update: Fridays and Weekends
Today, Boxing Day, would have been Maisie’s 13th birthday. To commemorate the event, I planned a tour of some of the destinations that Maisie and I most frequented. One place in particular, the upper Wharfe valley between Hubberholme and Hawes, was a favourite haunt and I have hundreds of photos and videos of Maisie playing … Read more Happy Birthday Maisie
Silence in the courtyard, silence in the street… At work we have entered “the quiet period”. There is little to no new work in, or even on the horizon, and nothing is currently expected until well into the new year. During the busy period, we dreamed of this time. Now that it’s here, I think … Read more November Update: Colonies and Sanctuaries
The long story It’s now more than a year since I picked up my Nikon D5300 on Gumtree and once again it’s coming into its own. In July 2021, I posted about the advantage of having a 24 megapixel APS-C camera over a 36 megapixel full-frame camera for macro work. Once again I’m doing the … Read more D5300 Beats The Crop Out Of The D800