photographs: people, places & things
Spring time and macro garden photography with the Sigma 105. And yet more macro pictures with the Canon EOS 90D and the Neewer ring flash. I’ve written previously about using the Canon EOS 90D and the pretty impressive Sigma 105mm lens, I really do think it’s a good combination. More information/other posts You can find […]
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Walking along the Shropshire Union canal & coffee in Bunbury We did some more decent walking last week. Our last canal walk had been along a stretch of the Peak Forest canal and the Bugsworth Basin this time starting off along a stretch of the Shropshire Union canal in Tarporley. The canal stretches for a […]
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More life in the garden and more garden bugs – a short post. Some more garden bug macro shots with the Canon 90D and the Neewer ring flash. There is more information about the Neewer ring flash in the previous post (use this link to view) All pictures are taken with a Canon EOS 90D […]
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There’s life in the garden – macro photos with Sigma 105mm. It’s a while since I posted macro pictures, that because it’s been a while since I did any macro photography. I suppose macro photography is like many things, if left for a while it can take a little time to ‘re-learn’. In fact I […]
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A visit to Bugsworth canal basin on the Peak Forest canal. The ‘basin’ at Bugsworth is always worth a visit and it’s a place we have been to many times in the past. It seems to have been quite a while since we were last there, so it was good to return there last week. […]
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Signs of spring weather a walk along the Macclesfield canal With just the hint of what feels like long overdue spring weather in the air we headed off towards High Lane which is a few miles from central Stockport. High Lane actually lies about five miles outside of Stockport with the busy A6 road cutting […]
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Wembley 2024 FA Cup semi final scenes Man City v Chelsea The weekend saw Manchester City make another trip to the national stadium at Wembley. This visit was for the FA Cup semi final game against Chelsea. I think this was maybe our 19th or 20th trip in the last dozen years or so which […]
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Visit to Lochalsh and the Isle of Skye. Part 4 – drone video This the final addition to the short series of posts following a recent trip to Scotland. This post has five short video clips filmed with the DJI Mini 4 Pro drone that I bought earlier this year. In the previous parts in […]
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Visit Lochalsh & the Isle of Skye. Scottish Highlands part 3 In Part 1 of this short series of blog post I wrote about heading off to Scotland to stay in Sallachy, a small hamlet just a few miles away from the Isle of Skye. Part 2 continues my account of our trip and then […]
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Visit Lochalsh & the Isle of Skye. Scottish Highlands part 2 In Part 1 of this short series of blog post I wrote about heading off to Scotland to stay in Sallachy, a small hamlet just a few miles away from the Isle of Skye. This second part of this Scottish Highlands blog post covers […]
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