Tag: 2011
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Soaring above you
On a Photo Workshop with Nick Jenkins – Freespirit Images – we spent an hour in a hide at The Red Kite, a centre for feeding this iconic bird near Llandeussant. This was an opportunity to try out my new 70-300mm lens on the Sony Alpha 700. There are some more shots of the kites…
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Soar-y-Mynydd in Autumn
Another shot taken whilst on a Photo Workshop. It took me ages to get this one anywhere near right. Getting the correct aperture for the river was reasonably straightforward, but getting some definition in the background and some light in the shadows of the foreground took much more work. No doubt some more work…
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A happy accident
Sometimes, you can get a picture that you didn’t mean to take! This is one of those. I was leaning against a tree, to compensate for the lack of tripod, when I slipped and the shutter was released. I can’t say the intended picture would have been better – but this is the one I…