photographs: people, places & things
More macro photography with the Sigma 105mm 2.8 DG Macro HSM There are various macro related posts on this blog, my most recent post is at this link. Soft box Since that last post I have fabricated a ‘soft box’ to use directly on my Speedlight 430 EXii. Macro photography is undoubtedly tricky and getting […]
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Garden birds – photographed through the window It’s not ideal but sometimes you have to just make the best of what you have got. Just recently that has meant grabbing some shots of birds (particularly Goldfinches) from behind glass, the glass in this case being our kitchen window and a window that looks out onto […]
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Walking the Tame Valley and Peak Forest canal – early summer picture post The series of images in the picture gallery below are a selection that were taken on a couple of walks between the last week in May and the third week in June. The pictures were taken alongside the river Tame in the […]
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New life – plenty of new life on the canal If you asked me what month or what time of year was my favourite for wandering along the towpath and checking out what’s going on – I really would struggle to pick one singe month or a particular time of year in preference over another […]
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Picture post – canal walking on the Peak Forest canal I have posted many times in the past and featured some of our canal walks. Many of those walks have taken in stretches of a canal that we really enjoy walking along – the Peak Forest canal. This blog post is a picture post that […]
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Picture post – a visit to Lymm Dam Another decent day and another visit to Lymm Dam in Cheshire. I have written and posted about a couple of previous visits, so this post is simply a ‘picture post‘ There is plenty of information about Lymm Dam online and a decent starting point is the Lymm […]
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Visiting City Airport & Heliport – Manchester (formerly Barton Aerodrome) We have visited City Airport a number of times. It’s formal title is actually City Airport & Heliport, although I understand that the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) know it as Manchester/Barton. Prior to last weeks visit our most recent visit was in May – you […]
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Sparrowhawk – a surprise visitor to our garden After having been out for a few hours enjoying the glorious weather and wandering around Lymm Dam I hadn’t expected to see what I did when I glanced out of the kitchen window and into the garden when we got home. We get a reasonable selection of […]
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Good to be back – Etihad days with Manchester City and farewell to Aguero A couple of weeks ago the Manchester City mens team played out their last game of the 2020/21 football season at the Etihad against Everton. In some respects it was a nothing sort of game as the league title had already […]
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A visit to the RSPB site at Burton Mere wetlands Last week we made the relatively short journey from home (less than an hour in the car) to the RSPB Burton Mere wetlands site over in Neston. The site itself is on land that has been reclaimed from the Dee estuary and the wetlands are […]
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