photographs: people, places & things
Wembley FA Cup Final 2024, it’s the people that make the day Win, lose or draw a day out at Wembley is almost always a decent thing to do. Getting to a cup final is almost certainly an event that most football fans would love to see their team involved in. Realistically for most football […]
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Another trip to Scotland – short break in Newton Stewart (2) In part 1 I mentioned that my wife and I have holidayed together many many times in Scotland as well as having travelled pretty extensively in Scotland on my own by motorbike (my most recent bike trip there was in August last year). There […]
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Another trip to Scotland – short break in Newton Stewart (1) We have holidayed together many many times in Scotland and I have travelled pretty extensively on my own by motorbike over the years (my most recent bike trip there was in August last year) I have said many times over the years that I […]
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Manchester City Champions again ole’ ole’ – days to remember It seems almost like yesterday when I was writing about Manchester City winning The Treble, in fact it was last June, less than a year ago, and it’s just a few weeks since I wrote about the most recent visit to Wembley and the FA […]
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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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Manchester Airport – it’s always worth a visit (and coffee). We don’t visit the viewing area at Manchester Airport often, but when we do we have always enjoyed our time there, and it’s a terrific place to take children. On this occasion we took our youngest grandson (he’s three years old) and for the price […]
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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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