Cee’s Black & White Challenge – Take a New Photo
The other day, clearing out the loft, I came across an old case that had presumably been in my late husband’s family. Very little in it, except for a couple of old books in very poor condition. One a...
View ArticleUp Close
A few images to fit this week’s WordPress theme – Close up… Not the closest I have ever been, but I did feel these were in the spirit of the prompt: I loved the detail of the upper fronds of this
View ArticleThursday’s Special: Minuscule
Couldn’t think what to post, until I recalled an image of my magnolia with minuscule raindrops, the hanging ones even showing minuscule reflections: See more Minuscule over at Paula’s blog here.
View ArticleTravel Theme: Abstract
I have been rather preoccupied lately, and have hardly participated in any photographic blogging challenges… One I always tried to get involved in on a regular basis was Ailsa’s Travel Theme. Well,...
View ArticleQuest
This week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is Quest.… My recent Quest has been to create photographs that elicit emotion, tell stories, ask questions. Rather than just taking images that are just...
View Article2016 Retrospective
2016 had me travelling to some new places and revisiting one or two old haunts. Above all, I set myself the task of trying or building upon techniques to strengthen my photographic repertoire, and to...
View ArticleSix Word Saturday: A different look to that image
Does this one work better now? Monochrome gives a sense of age….. linked to Six Word Saturday here
View ArticleDon’t wanna fade away…..
Here goes for more daffs, despite my belief that I had done them to death, I still managed to create another image, another aspect….as the flowers were only just starting to give up the ghost. By...
View ArticleWide Aperture Photography
I do love limited Depth of Field – and on a recent visit to Wisley, had some fun with this. I have already shown a poppy, and shall show a cornflower, I think, and some others, but here is a
View ArticleSix Word Saturday: Yellow against a background blue haze
Playing with a wide aperture again…produces some rather arty, impressionistic effects: Linked to Six Word Saturday at Debs’ here
View ArticleAnother take on Blue and Yellow
I posted blue and yellow earlier for Six Word Saturday, but here’s another take on it, this time with more of the fetching shade of purple pink … still with a limited Depth of Field, to give a...
View ArticleConcentrate..!!
Taken through a train window…..The chap on the bench is concentrating on his newspaper, whilst I was not! Had the focus point selected for the wrong part, and the aperture very wide (limited DOF, to...
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