Category: photos

Lots to choose this month with a trip to Italy from which this one comes. It’s a view down the length of the Great Hall in the impressive Venaria Reale near Turin. It’s 80m long and generally full of people. As I was leaving I Iooked back and it was almost empty with just a…

I’ve been taking photos for some time now and started digital photography almost twenty years ago. I’ve published a selection of photos from the first 10 years in the pdf below.

Sometimes the choice is just rather easy and so it is for March, 2023. This is number one granddaughter at the Van Gogh ‘immersive’ in York. It’s a hand held shot and was a quick take as Amelia turned to face me. I’m rather pleased with it. This photograph was taken with my Sony A7…

I read Digital Camera magazine each month. It’s not a bad read, I take some inspiration from it, and I have it on subscription so it’s not too expensive. One of its regular features is a selection of readers’ photographs. Some are exceptional but some I reckon are just good and no better than some…

Lots of competition this month with some super stuff from my trip to Jordan. Petra itself delivered multiple good shots but my pick for this month is this shot of the Roman ruins in Jerash. It’s taken from the north end of the site with Hadrian’s Arch in the distance. In the foreground is the…

It was a bitterly cold morning and I was walking into Histon to support the Abbey Fields stall at the SmokeHouse market. I took the opportunity to photograph the knitted embellishment to the wall at the start of Pease Way. It was another phone shot, taken with my Samsung 20E, 1/105th at f2.4 and ISO25.…

It’s back to wild life this month! I spent an excellent weekend in mid Wales on a photography course and for the Sunday afternoon we visited the Red Kite Centre at Rhayader. This photo was taken with my Sony a7 111 DSLR 1/2000th at f5.6 and ISO 2000 with 200mm on the zoom. I reckon it’s…

Continuing my theme of photographs which are out of my comfort zone, this one was taken when I participated in a one hour street photography workshop as a part of the Cambridge Photography Show. Lots of good common sense and rule number 1 seems to be: don’t use a DSLR! Anyway this was taken with…

I’ve recently ‘published’ a photobook including photographs which I’ve taken between 2004, when I bought my first digital camera, to 2013. There’s one for each year plus a few more besides. Click here to view it. This photo is from 2004 and one of my very first and it’s a view across Kyev from my…