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Playing with Fire
When I got in from photographing the moon the other day (‘the other day’ being a very useful phrase I use a lot to hide just how long it sometimes takes me to write up posts – although on this...
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Frosty Macro
I do seem to be playing about with macro a lot recently. It’s partly because I only bought a macro lens last month and am still exploring this new way of shooting things, partly because shooting at the...
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Borough Market
Working, as I do, in the middle of London, one of the world’s most vibrant and varied cities, it theoretically doesn’t take much for me to get some interesting photos. All I should need to do is bring...
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Macaroons: An Exploration in Pictures
I came back from my trip to the Indian market at the South Bank with a bag of macaroons. I felt guilty after taking all these pictures of the market stalls without giving the sellers something, and the...
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Damp Macro
1/200sec, f/3.5, ISO 100, 100mm One of the few good things about having a wash-out summer like the one we’ve had (apart from, this year, the amazing non-weather stuff that’s made it an incredible...
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So Long, September
It seems that just about every month at about this time I sit here and reflect on my amazement that another month has already been and gone so fast. This time, however, I know exactly why the month...
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Snowflakes
We’re in the midst of another cold spell here in the UK, and over the last couple of days we’ve seen a bit of snow. Fortunately the ground hasn’t been been cold enough for the snow to settle, so the...
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Dave the Angry Bee
There I was, sitting at my desk writing a post, when a bee flew through the open window, swirled around me a bit, and then proceeded to show himself up a bit by failing to fly back out of the window....
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Red Pepper
If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook (or even Google+ or App.net) then you will have seen me post this image a week or so ago with little explanation. If you hadn’t filled in the gaps, then you’re...
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More Random Gems
One of the reoccurring issues I have on this blog is what to do with the isolated images I take from time to time. These can be times when I’ve simply only taken one photograph and felt that was...
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Canon Experience Day
Last week I was fortunate enough to be able to attend an experience day at Canon’s UK headquarters in Surrey. Put on by Canon, the day featured talks by Canon Ambassadors David Norton and Danny Green,...
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Freddie in Closeup
I seem to be on a bit of a wildlife kick at the moment. Last month featured a menagerie of safari animals, some birds of prey, and a medley post containing a couple of shots of some of my cats. This...
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Lego Ecto-1
A couple of weeks ago I posted a couple of time lapses of me building some Lego models. At the end of that post I promised some better shots of the properly brilliant Ecto-1 model I assembled. The...
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Random Gems III
I’m afraid it’s another slightly cheating post this week. For the second week running I have struggled to complete a post, and for the same reason – being just a few days off of shooting a lot of...
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Macro Chocolate
As you may remember my wife and I visited Swanage in November for my birthday. And no visit to Swanage is complete without a trip to Chococo, the Purbeck Chocolate Company. If you like to keep score of...
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Return to Borough Market
The third trip in my recent series of London photo walks with my friend Catherine is a bit of a retread of one of our older, very successful walks from a few years ago. My first visit to Borough Market...
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Macro Vinyl
From time to time on this site my hobbies align. Since last year I’ve been slowly building up a small collection of vinyl records, and as I actually bought a few Record Store Day exclusives last month...
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Wild Flowers
On the first full day of our recent holiday to Dorset, Holly and I took a few lovely walks along the coast (not as many as I would have liked; we accidentally walked over 12 miles on the first one and...
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The Macro World of the New Forest
Last May, in the optimistic late spring of 2016 when we’d only had a bunch of celebrities die and had no idea just how terrible the year would ultimately turn out to be, Holly and I had a week off work...
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Candle
Whilst in Oslo Holly and I didn’t really eat much local food. Holly can’t go near fish without some form of projectile vomit and any of the traditional eateries we investigated the menus of seemed to...
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