My Ecuadorian Friend
I realised tonight that I’ve never actually IDd this little guy, but have always thought of him as a grasshopper. This was taken in May 2006 in Ecuador, and is one of my first DSLR shots – we bought the…
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Design changes
Just a quick note to say there have been some recent design changes to Taraji Blue, which doubtless have introduced some quirky “features” that we will work to eradicate. Some of the known issues include: large image click areas at…
The Wide-Angle Macro
I’ve seen many better macro photos than this, but I’m not sure any have been taken at 22mm. Ever since I bought it, my wife has hogged our macro lens, leaving me with a Canon EF-S 10-22mm (unless the big…
How To Find Wildlife While Trekking
At the end of June we had a fantastic time in Costa Rica, trekking through cloud and rainforest in Arenal and Monteverde, and kayaking through narrow rivers in Torteguero. While wandering through a trail in Arenal near the volcano, one…
Astrophotography – #1
This is not a great photograph, but it is the beginning of a journey. In 2009, I started to fixate on space again. It was the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, and the space shuttle programme was sadly…
New gallery: Arctic – Greenland, Spitsbergen and Iceland
Our photo gallery containing shots from Greenland, Spitsbergen and Iceland in September 2010 is now online. This is one of two shots of a beautiful iceberg melting in Scoresbysund, Greenland (a landscape orientation also available). It’s hard to show the…
Photo of the week: Confident Steps
This tiny little chap was wandering near Central Hall in the lakeside campus at the University of York, just down the road from where we live. He’s a great example of just how good cameras and lenses can be, and…
Fun exploring EXIF data with Tableau!
Woke up this morning to a tweet from Vanya Tucherov about extracting the EXIF data from photographs and plugging into the information visualisation software Tableau. Worth a try! An hour later, we had the following charts up on the web,…
From All Colours, Black
On a recent trip to Berlin, we walked through the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, commonly known as the Holocaust Memorial. It’s a large square of space just south of Brandenberg Gate, next to the Tiergarten. The space…
Comparison of 300mm L vs 100-400mm L
I hired a Canon 300mm f/4 L IS USM prime lens from Lenses For Hire a few weeks ago, and took it to Chester Zoo to put it through its paces. I was also interested to see how it performed…