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  • Jun 17: photo of the month

    Jun 17: photo of the month

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    Nothing extra special about this one but it’s a mug shot taken with my ‘fast’ lens of Peter Doyle who was one of my buddies at Churchill 1966-1969. What I like about the fast lens is the way it blurs out the background because of the reduced depth of field from a wide aperture. I’m…

  • Dec 16: photo of the month

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    A bit more timely this one and it seemed for most of the month that this would have been one of my photos from Bruges (click here for that album) but at the last minute it had to be Alex and Amelia just after Christmas. In addition to it being a technically good photo I…

  • Nov 16: photo of the month

    Nov 16: photo of the month

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    I’m still in catch up mode but here’s the photo from November and it’s a cliche. I think I take this photo every year and its leaves and berries from the Rowan at the front of the house, fist frost of the year. That was way back in the beginning of November and we’ve hardly…

  • Oct 16: photo of the month

    Oct 16: photo of the month

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    Oops this is a bit late. Not sure why, no good reasons. This is Ragussa in Sicily on our walk down to the old town on the last evening of our recent holiday. I took this with my Sony SLT-A58 1/30th at f4. No post-processing.

  • Aug 16: photo of the month

    Aug 16: photo of the month

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    Sometimes it’s all about the content on an emotional level. This is number one granddaughter Amelia with father, and my son-in-law, Alex sat on the bank of the Wharf in Wetherby by the bandstand.

  • Jun 16: photo of the month

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    I seemed to take a fair few food photos in June and several were technically good but this one says more about me and where I live.

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    Here’s my Apr 16 photo of the month. It’s another church, All Saints in Jesus Lane, but it’s really a photo of a sunset.

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    Here’s my photo of the month for Feb 16. It’s of what they call a ‘redundant church’. St Peter’s on Castle Street between Honey Hill and Kettle’s Yard currently revealed because of renovations at the latter and a sign I’ve never seen before. Rather magic.

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    Here’s my photo of the month for Feb 16. It’s a shot of the super new roof at King’s Cross and shows people waiting on the walkway which leads through into the main station.

  • Jan 16: photo of the month

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    I keep a ‘photo diary’ on Tumblr (click here) and I thought it might be interesting to pick one each month and to add a little information about it. It’s not necessarily the best technically but there should be a bit of a story behind it.