After a winter break, I’m back! First with a series of images from Forest Farm in north Cardiff which I’ve visited many times and which has a vibrant wildlife and interesting habitats lodged between the River Taf and the remains of the Glamorganshire Canal. So the first one is a shot of one of the […]
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It’s become a bit of a favourite lens just recently. There’s not a shoot I go out on that I don’t just pop the lens in my pocket – just in case. I’m always looking for different applications of it. Shots which you just couldn’t have got any other way, and ones that in some
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A bit of fun really. The ducks were feeding from the spillway as the water left the lake, I wanted to get one with it’s beak in the “silky water”, but after I’d initially seen them doing just that, they steadfastly refused to take up position again. So I changed tack and as the post
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It would be a shame not to record autumn in Cardiff. Perhaps not the best for colours, but still a lovely sight. So here are a couple of shots taken in Roath Park in mid-November which I’m reasonably happy with. The one above is taken looking towards the rose garden, the one below (in
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Out of sequence, but too exciting to wait. Jenny had seen this bird (or a relative) twice before in the garden, once when it actually flew in at high-speed and tried to attack finches on the bird feeders, the other time just sitting like this one in the apple tree having missed it’s prey and
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The city I’ve lived in, or been associated with for over 40 years is changing, and continues to change. There are so many great websites that follow the progress of the changes; some of which are not always welcome. I took these images (along with the featured image above) … … of the demolished
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Haven’t posted for a couple of weeks, but that’s going to change over the next few weeks as I schedule some posts from Cornwall and other photoshoots I’ve done recently. But first … I’ve toyed with getting a fisheye lens for quite a long time, but the cost of the native lenses for the Sony
The May photo shoot for the U3A Photo Group took us to the Cardiff Bay Barrage, with a theme of “lines”. I tried my best to comply using leading lines where possible, going from left to right (where possible), and incorporating the quirky wherever possible as well – beds of sedimentary rock pointing towards Penarth
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“This week’s photo shoot is Cathays Park”. Now what was I going to take a picture of that I didn’t know everything about already. The theme is “architecture” or “architectural detail”. Well that helps a little to focus the mind, I suppose. Anyway, as always, once I got my head in the right space, I
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We enjoyed the best seats in the house for Brian Cox’s recent visit to Cardiff – front row – having booked the seats well over a year ago, mistaking the year of his visit (2019, not 2018). The wait was worth it. I could have taken pictures all night but was totally mesmerised by what
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