Category: photos

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…

I would never claim to be a wild-life photographer but … I reckon this one’s pretty good. Admittedly this deer is probably well used to members of the public it’s nonetheless a well crafted shot. It’s a shot of a European fallow deer at Holkham Hall in Norfolk This photo was taken with my Sony…

Some photos are just pure serendipity as is this one. We’d just come out from dinner in Brighton and were walking back to the hotel down the narrow alley ways, this one connects Middle Street to Ship Street. I like the colours and the vertical stripes and the positioning of the couple just in a…

We had such good pasta when we were in Italy in May I thought I should do my best to replicate it back home so this has become one of my signature dishes: linguine al salmone. The key to success is to be generous with the salmone! This photo was taken with my Samsung Galaxy…

I took this photograph at the start of our trip to North Wales. It’s taken from the end of the Portmerion peninsula looking across the Afon Glaslyn estuary towards Borth-y-Gest. I don’t think the couple in the foreground planned on walking all the way there but they’ve nonetheless got quite a detour to get round…

Lots of choice this month with a week in Sorrento and then better weather at home. This one’s a shot of the Italian equivalent of our National Trust volunteers, the people who site patiently just to make sure that visitors to their properties behave themselves. This is one such volunteer at the Villa San Marco.…