I’ve mentioned before that I love the seaside and I love photographing the seaside. It doesn’t matter if it’s in season or out, good weather or bad, there’s something there to photograph, or a mood to be captured. Continue reading “Grim”
Grim
Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside
I’ve posted before about the great British seaside (and I’m sure I’ll do so again). Continue reading “Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside”
Changes
One of the benefits of having a dog (and not having to go to the office every day) is that you are forced to become a pedestrian. I spent too much of my life outside of the house in the confines of a car—because of the need to commute, or get the shopping in quickly and so on.
Walking and being exposed to the elements makes you much more aware of the natural world. Because you’re not insulated from cold and rain, and because your attention is free to wander, rather than watch the road, you see things at more visceral level than before.
I’ve mentioned before that there is a particular spot on my regular walks with the dog that has a special attraction to me. I can’t really explain why those particular trees from that particular position is something that I look forward to seeing whenever I go that way, but the fact is that I always take time to slow down and just watch those silver birch framing the willow.
And, of course, over the course of the last six months or so, I’ve watched (and photographed) the trees wake from their winter dormancy to full spring exuberance.
Here, then, are some pictures of the seasonal change in one particular stand of trees.
December
January
February
February
February
March
April
May
May
A Photographic Dilemma
I was out with the dog this morning, on one of our regular routes up the canal towpath. It was a misty day, so I wanted to make some black and white photos to try to capture the quiet, enclosed feel of a misty morning. Continue reading “A Photographic Dilemma”
A new toy – Tonality Pro
There are some photographers who think that post-processing is, if not cheating, then something to be minimised. I tend to think that way myself, in that I try to restrict digital manipulation to the equivalent of darkroom techniques; things like dodging and burning, contrast adjustment and so on. Continue reading “A new toy – Tonality Pro”
…Go out in the midday sun
A gallery this time; we went out exploring the hinterlands of Andalucía, so these are just some images of the areas we visited.