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Posted on September 28, 2019

Being Busy

I notice that I haven't posted anything since July, have I lost interest in running my own website after all these years ?

Posted on June 7, 2019

Wild Flowers

The weather has been rather changeable of late as these pictures show from yesterday when it started out well, a bright sunny morning for my regular morning bike ride but with a fairly stiff breeze.

Posted on June 3, 2019June 3, 2019

By this I do mean, “Being fair to oneself”. In my earlier post “Going Back” when writing about my original DSLR the Canon D30 that I bought at Christmas 2000, I said that I didn't know much about what I was doing with it and any good pictures I got were by chance. Now whilst this was broadly speaking true, I may have been a bit too harsh on myself.

Posted on May 28, 2019May 28, 2019

Because

I am not a great fan of writing or talking about photographic gear and what is the “latest, greatest” or current “king of the hill” because all that stuff gets in the way of creating pictures and I have just had proof of that in the oddest way. I have just been going through the digital pictures I have taken in the first 5 months of this year and frankly I am appalled by my lack of “keepers” from the whole collection, how did this come about ?

Posted on May 10, 2019

Making a Start

It is I suppose the habit of a lifetime in that I always have several projects on the go at any one time and an insatiable thirst to explore others. Coming back to my 35mm black & white project which started towards the end of last year, I realised I hadn't posted any pictures from that here and ought to so here some with some observations to go with them on wetfilm generally.

Posted on April 23, 2019

New Cameras

I will not rehash what is a very good piece of work but instead give a personal reflection on an article published at the end of March which basically posed the question “Does Anybody Really Want a New Camera ?” It is well worth a read: https://dslrbodies.com/newsviews/nikon-2019-news/april-2019-nikon-canon/does-anyone-really-want-a.html

Posted on April 3, 2019

This Morning

Every morning except when there are gales or very high winds, rain I don't mind, I go for a ride on one of my mountain bikes along a regular circuit. I have combined bike rides with photography for many years and because of my habit of having each camera and its spare lenses etc in individual bags, the bag I take on any given morning, rather decides the kind of photography I will be doing.

Posted on March 30, 2019March 30, 2019

Going Back in Time

I have found shooting 35mm wet film again, a uniquely engaging experience though this first stage of getting familiar again with the whole process from start to finish and resetting my mindset means that it may well be some months yet before I start producing the quality of images that are obviously “B&W” in terms of the results and quality I'm after.

Posted on February 15, 2019February 15, 2019

Keeping Busy

Although I haven't posted anything just lately, it hasn't been through a lack of interest on my part, simply that I am busy on other things which in their own way, are related to what this site is about. The Winter is always a relatively fallow period for me photographically with the shorter days and it is only around now as the daylight hours noticeably lengthen that I start to get excited again !

Posted on January 5, 2019January 5, 2019

New Year Projects

In a sense the above title is rather misleading at it seems to allude to “New Year's Resolutions” which I don't believe in too much. However, the period between Christmas and the New Year 'Twixmas' as I amusingly heard it referred to, is a time for reflection and a 'gathering of strength for the year ahead plus a time to get your existing goals into sharp focus.

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