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Spring in the Japanese Gardens
Back in the Water Gardens in time for the Spring Blossom – one very fine reason to be back in England. The Japanese gardens where we live are at their best at this time of year, but they have been a photographic challenge for me ever since we arrived. At the…
Gironde Carrelet at dusk
” Today’s photo:Gironde Carrelet at dusk. An evening long exposure shot around sunset, of one of the iconic fishing jetties, or ‘Carrelets’ on the banks of the Gironde. This lovely river flows into Bordeaux, and flanks some of the most famous locations in French wine. It is also home to little fish, rather like Whitebait,…
London Street Photographs – building a style
Some more London street shots – now working on closer shots with wider lenses There are of course vastly more than enough street photographs of London, so there ought to be some rationale for my taking and publishing even more. The usual justification is that they are taken from one’s own unique point of…
Ducatos – better than a vacation
“A vacation is an occasional pleasure but a Ducatos is always a smoke”. A rough smoke, agreed, but at least it’s handy. Taken outside CentroCentro, Madrid, with credit to Rudyard Kipling for his (no longer PC) original line. ←PreviousThe nightmare of the FBTsNextThe Madrid path to perfection→
Cape Town Photos Spring 2011 – the Argus bike race
I had so much fun with my Sony Nex-5 plus old Nikkor lenses that I started to look for old Nikkors on eBay. To check which were the best ones for image quality and bokeh etc, I looked for sources of advice and reviews on the web. The self-styled ‘most widely read photo site on…
Riders from the sea
I have wanted to take this shot for a while after having noticed the effect a year or two ago. The viewpoint is from Kommetjie looking across the bay to Long Beach where the horses are exercised in the morning. I liked the idea of appearing to see the riders as though from a boat…