photographs: people, places & things
It is what it is – pictures from being out and about
August visit to City Airport and Heliport Manchester I always enjoy my visits to City Airport in Manchester. From leaving home I can be there in 20 minutes or so and if the weather is good it really is a decent place to pass an hour or two. Last week with time to spare and […]
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Macro photography at Lyme park During our recent trip to Lyme Park we took some time out to spend half an hour or so with the macro lenses on. I had my Sigma 105mm lens and for the images in the picture gallery used one of my home made soft boxes, which for the most […]
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Visiting Lyme Park Cheshire – National Trust The National Trust site at Lyme Park is always a wonderful place to visit and we made a pretty much spur of the moment decision last week to head over that way for a wander around. We were there relatively early and whilst it was still pretty quiet. […]
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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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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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A year with a camera – from snapper to accomplished photographer What a difference a day makes … and what a difference a year or so makes! Up until around May last year, when it came to taking photographs my wife could probably be fairly described as being ‘quite handy’ with a point and shoot […]
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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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