photographs: people, places & things
Home work & home improvements – time for new doors The fairly random approach to this blog sees a bit of a change from the last couple of posts. Recent posts have featured our decent trip to Yarrow Valley County Park before that our trip to Wembley for the Manchester City FA Cup semi final […]
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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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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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Pink pigeon – it’s not everyday you see one of these I was sat at home chatting to my wife and nephew when I thought I saw a pink bird fly past the window. Now depending where in the world you live, the sight of a brightly coloured, slightly exotic looking bird flapping its way […]
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Anglesey people This post follows on from a three part series of earlier blog posts featuring a visit to Anglesey and it’s stunning coastline. You can find the link to the first in that series here Part 1 About this post It’s not much more than a set of random black and white images of […]
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Cut, crops and collages For some time I have been creating a small collage of pictures to set as the featured image on blog posts. These have typically been split in three vertical sections. This post and the previous two posts (Part 1 and Part 2) are a replay/look back of collages that have been […]
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Cut, crops and collages For some time I have been creating a small collage of pictures to set as the featured image on blog posts. These have typically been split in three vertical sections. This post and the previous and following post (Part 1 and Part 3) are a replay/look back of collages that have […]
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Cut, crops and collages For some time I have been creating a small collage of pictures to set as the featured image on blog posts. These have typically been split in three vertical sections. This post and following two posts (Part 2 and Part 3) are a replay/look back of collages that have been used […]
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It’s all about the light It seems to me photography is nothing else if not about the light. It also seems to me that light is the single and most fundamental ‘component’ when taking a photograph. No light and there’s no picture. The importance of light is brought home to me every day I walk […]
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