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  • Photo of the month: March 2021

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    I was stuck without a DSLR for a couple of weeks as I was trading up. That meant I resorted to my perfectly good Sony WX-350 compact. This is a photo of Ros Hathorn who’s standing as the Lib Dem candidate in the county council elections to replace me. She’s an excellent candidate and will…

  • Photo of the month: February 2021

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    It’s not a usual shot for me, more for artistic merit than a part of the story of my life, but it seems to work. Camera held low down, shallow depth of field frosty morning. This photo was taken with my Sony A77 II DSLR, 1/80th at f2.8 and ISO100 using my 50mm prime. There’s…

  • Photo of the month: January 2021

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    It’s not been a great month for photography and it came down to a choice from one from a sunny morning or one from a cold and misty one. The latter won. This was taken with my Sony WX350 pocket camera, 1/400th at f3.5, ISO 80 and no zoom. There’s been a little post processing…

  • Photos of the month: October, November and December

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    Oops … this is a bit of a catch-up to make sure that I can round off the year within the year and not some time in 2021. October I drink more wine than I do beer but I don’t have the same regular habit of photographing wine as I do with beer. I’ve spent…

  • Sep 20: photo of the month

    Sep 20: photo of the month

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    I take a beer photo every Friday and I guess one was going to be seen as deserving the ultimate accolade. This one looks good enough to drink and is of a beer which I often drank on visits to Germany, especially Dusseldorf. This photo was taken with my Sony A77 II DSLR 1/80th at…

  • Aug 20: photo of the month

    Aug 20: photo of the month

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    I take this shot most Saturdays and Sundays now because my regular weekend routines have been upset by (a) the closure of Don Pasquale and (b) Covid. I reckon I’m good at scrambled eggs and I got introduced to avocado with breakfast during our Aussie tour of 2017. A since avocados are reputed to lower…

  • Jul 20: photo of the month

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    This month was a toss up between another butterfly and a little ego. Naturally the latter won. I last had my haircut 20 Feb 20 and this photo was taken 5 Jul 20 prior to my next haircut 8 Jul 20. I felt that I needed a record for posterity. Obviously I didn’t take this…

  • Jun 20: photo of the month

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    And it’s another nature photo this month. The butterfly’s a Meadow Brown. The photo was taken with my Sony A77 ll with my Tamron 18-270mm lens, f6.3 at 1/200th, ISO100 and a focal length of 280mm (funny how that’s more than the spec of the lens). There’s been no post processing beyond a crop to…

  • I take photographs. Does that make me a photographer?

    I take photographs. Does that make me a photographer?

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    I’ve been taking photographs since the mid 60s and then more seriously since 1974 when I acquired my first SLR. I complemented this with a pocket camera which I always carried with me (click here for my camera post).

  • May 20: photo of the month

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    Lots of good photos in May but this stands out. I just like the ‘confidence’ that this rose seems to show.