Optimising travel with music
Whenever we hire a car for our adventures we take a host of CDs for the journey. This has meant that several holiday memories can be recalled simply by playing a CD on our return home. I love the evocative memories…
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It’s World Animal Day Today
It’s World Animal Day today, and to celebrate all things wildlife I have chosen to highlight a selection of my favourite animal photographs from the last few years. Featured above is a close up of a female lioness and a…
Colours can make such a difference
I’m always striving for the best colours and exposures from my images – ideally so I need to do as little post processing as possible. Not only because this makes my life a lot easier, but it also gives me…
Think global, act local
I’m forever dreaming of exotic shores, enticing overseas cities and sundowners in the African bush – but this year I have made a constant effort to try and make the most of the photographic opportunities locally. From insects in the local park,…
Observations from our first trip to Russia
I have recently stumbled across some hand written notes from a trip log taken during our first visit to Russia in the winter of 2005. I wanted to share these observations with you; Their rules are a little odd –…
Scary Detail
There comes a point with macro photography where you can genuinely scare yourself silly with the proximity you get to insects and the detail you end up revealing. For me, this is very much the case with anything large and ‘buzzy’. It used to…
The night I lost my foot in a field of sunflowers
I’m afraid this is not an epic world war tale of heroism and bravery. More a cautionary tale about the dangers of mixing two very keen, over-worked and overenthusiastic amateur photographers with a new landscape and too much sunshine 🙂 Allow me to explain… We have just returned from a glorious week in the Loire…
The Sunnier Side of Life
OK, I admit a mixture of blood sucking spiders and bucktoothed grasshoppers have made my recent posts and photos a little ‘niche’, so here are some ‘normal’ shots to suit all tastes 🙂 These (above and below) were taken during our…
Incy Wincy Spider
Never had I fallen more in love with macro photography than when I stumbled upon the opportunity to photograph spiders. It opened up a whole new world. It was like wearing my glasses for the first time; tiny detail that my eyes…
en France..new photo gallery now available
We have recently taken a trip to France and I managed to drag myself away from macro photography long enough to really appreciate some of the amazing architecture of the Loire Valley’s cities and towns. Whilst on holiday there, we did ponder and discuss how it is…