photographs: people, places & things
Macro photography in the garden with the Sigma 105mm I have continued to spend a bit of time practising my macro photography with the aim of improving my understanding of the intricacies and techniques with a view to taking decent pictures. It’s not at all easy, in the picture gallery below are my most recent […]
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Birds in frantic feeding frenzy on the feeders During the week we moved some of our bird feeders and added a ‘home made’ log bird feeder. The log bird feeder was pretty much a straight copy from an idea that my wife had found somewhere online. It’s simply a reasonably sturdy log that hasn’t dried […]
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Sound and vision Who is speaking and who is in control? It’s just black and white.
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Macro photography in the garden More in the macro photography series. The images in the picture gallery below were taken in the garden this week. Instagram You can check out more pictures from the rainycity on my Instagram page at this link Picture gallery Clicking on any of the images below will open a […]
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Is there anyone who doesn’t like a cute yellow duckling? I doubt I will see many more yellow ducklings like this during the rest of the year, and I simply couldn’t resist a few pictures earlier this week as we walked along a local stretch of the Peak Forest canal. Instagram You can check out […]
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The birds and the bees … I was away last week on one of the bikes (you can read about that trip here), and it was only yesterday that I took some of my more ‘regular’ pictures in the garden. It’s only this year that we have been able to attract goldfinches into the garden. […]
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Wandering along the River Weaver and a visit to Vale Royal locks We took a terrific walk this week along a stretch of the River Weaver in Vale Royal (Cheshire). The River Weaver has an interesting history and is inextricably linked to the salt mining of Cheshire and it’s most certainly somewhere we will visit […]
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Macro photography – developing my skills with Canon 90D and Sigma 105mm This post features a selection of pictures taken over the last week or so, mostly in the garden. It certainly feels to me now that most times I set out to take macro pictures I am reasonably confident that I will get a […]
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Macro photography – Canon EOS 90D and Sigma 105mm f2.8 HSM More macro photographs with the Canon EOS 90D and the Sigma 105 f2.8 HSM macro lens. All of these pictures have been taken with one or other of two home made light modifier/softboxes. It’s taken me a number of ‘shots’ to get a sense […]
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Macro in the garden with the Sigma 105mm lens This blog post features some more Macro pictures taken in the garden using the Canon EOS 90D coupled with the Sigma 105 f2.8 macro lens. In the last couple of days I have been experimenting with home made light modifiers and it’s fair to say that […]
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