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Batteries Part 1 - Alkalines 2008-03-01 06:31:34 Green Frog Wastebin in Kent
Ok so starting a post on batteries with a photo may seem irrelevant but hey I promised to post some of my favourite pictures as we went along and the point of batteries is that they’re like computer backups - absolutely essential.
It’s when you need them and don’t have them that [...]
Stock Photos and Personal - Update 2008-02-14 02:33:21 This is really just a brief update on my last blog post.
As I said, there are some pictures, which I consider to be both personally satisfying and which have been good stock sellers. So I thought I’d better give an example.
I mentioned, the question of travel photography and of travelling in so-called exotic locations [...] Read more:Stock
, Personal
, Update
Stock Photos and Personal - continued 2008-01-31 16:00:59 Now I’m going to go straight into a couple of pictures and for one of them I’m going to continue my theme of mirror images because I think I can combine an example of personal photography and another take on mirror images.
The point here I think is that like many other photographers, I’m [...] Read more:Stock
, Personal
Stockphotos and Personal 2008-01-23 16:00:02 I started my photo website before I started blogging and understandably quite a few people contact me through my site and I’ve just realised there are a number of differences in the sorts of questions that people ask.
I suppose it might be because my site is clearly divided into photographs which are personal and for [...] Read more:Personal
Flash Trigger 2008-01-16 23:57:39 Among my resolutions for blogging this year was some discusion on working methods and equipment. Of course this could cover a lot of ground but the impetus for this post was when a friend of mine who’s not a photographer commented on my use of studio flash.
The problem for her seemed to be how the [...] Read more:Flash
MIRROR IMAGES - Introduction 2008-01-06 16:00:53 In my first blog of this year I started to look at mirror images.
Just in case it’s not clear what I mean it’s when I take an original image and then taking only half of that image flip it over to provide a symmetrical image by joining the two halves.
So why should we do this?
there [...] Read more:MIRROR
, Introduction
Happy New Year and some Resolutions for 2008 2007-12-31 16:45:46 I finished my first year of blogging just getting used to the idea and finding out there’s more to blogging about photography than loving it.
When you make resolutions I suppose it’s an admission that you need to do better.
So my main resolution is to blog more regularly.
Yes, this could be just too boring but [...] Read more:Happy
, Resolutions
, Happy New Year
Season’s Greetings 2007-12-18 02:20:03 I’ve become as bad at updating my blog as I am about replying to my emails.
The only reasons I’ve got don’t really cut the mustard and are too boring or whining.
Almost all photographers these days complain that they spend all their time editing, keywording, and post processing RAW files so I suppose I must [...] Read more:Season
, Greetings
Thinking Digitally 1 2007-09-06 23:33:29 Talking about lenses is a pretty dry business and of course testing and trying lenses is a time consuming process but there’s absolutely no point in any of this unless it leads to better or different pictures.
I suppose I’m like a lot of photographers who get fed up with people saying, ‘Ah [...] Read more:Digitally
More on Lenses - Canon EF 100mm f2.8 USM 2007-07-14 23:07:00 Since I last posted I’ve looked around a few other blogs. Looking at some old favourites and seeing if there are any tips to pick up. One thing that struck me was that there are quite a few bloggers who blog every day or every week. I don’t think I can do that. It might [...] Read more:Canon
Back to Batteries Part 2. A look at Sealed Nickel-Cadmium Cells 2008-03-19 06:54:16 Red flowers close up
Again I’m going to start with a photo and it’s clearly a macro shot. And the reason is that I’m getting ready to respond to a comment sent in by Tony.
I did give him a quick reply to answer his immediate queries but it seems to me that they are of [...] Read more:Nickel
, Sealed
Batteries Part 3 - a look at Nickel Metal Hydride Batteries 2008-03-26 03:13:55 A red and black striped Shield Bug
Kicking off with another macro shot - where’s the point of sharpest focus?
And so back to the batteries.
Nickel
metal hydride batteries - (Ni-MH)
Most of my rechargeable cells now are of this kind and they do a great job from the photographic point of view - but they’re not perfect.
Nickel [...] Read more:Metal
Ready To Go Batteries - The Best So Far 2008-04-08 04:20:18 I think this is going to be my last post on batteries for a while.
As I said, batteries are as boring as backup but batteries are equally essential.
Sometimes, of course, batteries hit the news:
I’ve just read that the United States Administration is banning Nickel Metal Hydride batteries and rechargeable cells on aeroplanes unless they are [...]
I’m Moving my Blog Address 2008-04-26 01:06:51 New Blog Address
, Click Here
This blog is dead. Long live this blog!
Thing is I never realised when I started blogging how addictive it was going to be and how much I would want to do more on my blog.
And so I signed up for a free account with WordPress, but now I find [...] Read more:Moving
A Dog as a Travel Photograph 2008-06-25 00:40:01 A dog resting in Luxor
This is another shot from my recent Egyptian trip.
Perhaps this is the real travel photo,
Of course looking at this photo. It doesn’t really give you any idea of place so does it qualify as a travel photo?
Is this dog a particular type of dog? I don’t know. Is thre anything about [...] Read more:Travel
Some Thoughts on Travel Photography 2008-06-15 04:51:22 Great Sphinx at Giza in Egypt
I hadn’t planned to be away so long. Some delays are planned. I had planned, for example, to look again at the arrangements for my web presence.
This was actually suggested to me by a comment made earlier by Mary who was looking at such things as hosting and [...] Read more:Travel
Canon 100mm Macro Lens - It’s Manual for Macro 2008-05-23 00:55:10 Canon and Tamron Macro
lenses extended
In my last post, I said that appearances can be deceptive.
Perhaps that’s something of a mantra in photography.
In this case, I’m talking really about the length of the lens and the focussing systems. And you can now see that the Tamron lens when fully extended is really just as long [...] Read more:Canon
Canon 100mm Macro Lens Revisited 2008-05-13 01:43:27 Papyrus
Over the last few posts, I’ve put up a few images which are mostly of macro subjects.
By macro I mean, close-ups which are life size or one-to-one at the film plane.
Now there’s a reason for this. It’s because for sometime, I’ve been meaning to come back and have another look at the Canon
100 [...] Read more:Revisited
, Macro
Ready To Go Batteries - The Best So Far 2008-04-08 04:20:18 I think this is going to be my last post on batteries for a while.
As I said, batteries are as boring as backup but batteries are equally essential.
Sometimes, of course, batteries hit the news:
I’ve just read that the United States Administration is banning Nickel Metal Hydride batteries and rechargeable cells on aeroplanes unless they are [...]
Batteries Part 3 - a look at Nickel Metal Hydride Batteries 2008-03-26 03:13:55 A red and black striped Shield Bug
Kicking off with another macro shot - where’s the point of sharpest focus?
And so back to the batteries.
Nickel
metal hydride batteries - (Ni-MH)
Most of my rechargeable cells now are of this kind and they do a great job from the photographic point of view - but they’re not perfect.
Nickel [...] Read more:Metal
Back to Batteries Part 2. A look at Sealed Nickel-Cadmium Cells 2008-03-19 06:54:16 Red flowers close up
Again I’m going to start with a photo and it’s clearly a macro shot. And the reason is that I’m getting ready to respond to a comment sent in by Tony.
I did give him a quick reply to answer his immediate queries but it seems to me that they are of wider [...] Read more:Sealed
, Nickel
Batteries Part 1 - Alkalines 2008-03-01 06:31:34 Green Frog Wastebin in Kent
Ok so starting a post on batteries with a photo may seem irrelevant but hey I promised to post some of my favourite pictures as we went along and the point of batteries is that they’re like computer backups - absolutely essential.
It’s when you need them and don’t have them that [...]
Stock Photos and Personal - Update 2008-02-14 02:33:21 This is really just a brief update on my last blog post.
As I said, there are some pictures, which I consider to be both personally satisfying and which have been good stock sellers. So I thought I’d better give an example.
I mentioned, the question of travel photography and of travelling in so-called exotic locations [...] Read more:Update
, Personal
, Stock
Stock Photos and Personal - continued 2008-01-31 16:00:59 Now I’m going to go straight into a couple of pictures and for one of them I’m going to continue my theme of mirror images because I think I can combine an example of personal photography and another take on mirror images.
The point here I think is that like many other photographers, I’m fascinated by [...] Read more:Personal
, Stock
A Riddle of the Sphinx - The Bigger Picture 2008-07-01 04:10:39 Does digital imaging make photography too easy?
It’s certainly something to think about.
There are lots of photographers who have found making the switch from film to digital very difficult. And some of them just don’t like it.
And of course digital is still not the obvious choice for some types of photography.
There’s nothing new about this.
The influential [...] Read more:Riddle
, Picture
Rub Out the People You Don’t Like. Part 1 2008-07-15 05:05:13 Dragon Screen Wall in the Behai Park in Beijing, China
This is just to show how I managed to wait long enough to get a clear view of the wall. But I had to crop it fairly tightly still.
OK, let’s get down to eliminating people we don’t like.
Let’s get back to a Stroll in the Park.
two [...]
People in the Picture - A Stock Photographer’s View 2008-07-10 03:28:17 A Stroll in Boris Gardens, Sofia, Bulgaria
Is this a travel photograph?
I suppose it depends if you believe that a travel photograph can be taken, where you live, even more or less just across the road from where you live in your own backyard so to speak.
In other words, to take a travel photograph does the [...] Read more:Picture
, Stock
, Photographer
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