Home – A New Deck
I’ve reached a crossroads with my blog. Originally I decided to keep my articles closely tied to my photography but I’ve found myself wanting to make it a more personal, almost journal like, place for me to record parts of our life as it chunters on. So here’s the story of a home renovation project.…
Lens-Artists Challenge #392: Framing Your Shots: Exploring the Foreground, Middle Ground, and Background
Patti has set this weeks Lens-Artists Challenge with this brief – “This week, we’re focusing on framing the shot using the 3 grounds (or layers) – the foreground, middle ground, and background.” Her original challenge post can be found here – Lens-Artists Challenge #392: Framing Your Shots: Exploring the Foreground, Middle Ground, and Background I’m…
Lens-Artists Challenge #391 – Phone Photography
Tina hosts this weeks Lens-Artist Challenge and asks us to post images taken using a phone camera. Her original challenge post can be found here – Lens-Artists Challenge #391 – Phone Photography I rarely use my phone camera other than to record notes or something else I need to remember. However I do use the…
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Lens-Artists Challenge #390: Colour in Black and White
Egidio hosts this weeks challenge and, if I have this right, he would like us to post black and white images that contain a subject, that we know so well, we can replace the missing colour. His original challenge post is here. I process very little in B&W. So, I’ve gone through my archives looking…
Vintage Lenses – Spring Flowers
A sudden spell of good weather has brought our local woodland and gardens to life over the past week or so. The weather here, in the South West of England, has been very wet but mild over the winter. So there have been no hard frosts to kill off delicate plants or hold things back.…
Vintage Lenses – More adventures with my lens spanner
So, having successfully opened up a Helios 44-2 and reversed the front element using a newly purchased lens spanner (blogged here), I decided to attack another couple of lenses this week. Things went pretty well initially but, I learnt a tough lesson through inexperience with these older lenses. Firstly I decided to open up a…
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