It’s been a while since I posted for Dan’s Thursday Doors. I’ve been taking door pics for the challenge so here’s a catch up post from a trip the Rethymno, Crete, Greece back in September.
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Lens-Artists Challenge #371 – Street Details
Ritva hosts this weeks challenge. You can find her original challenge post here – Lens-Artists Challenge #371 – Street Details
Continue readingPhotography – Vintage Lenses and Flickr
My digital photography story started back in 2007 when I completed a short Open University course called ‘Welcome to Digital Photography’. Over ten weeks the course covered the photography basics but also introduced me to Flickr.
Continue readingLens-Artists Challenge – #370: Ancient
It’s Sofia’s turn to host this weeks Challenge, and her theme is ‘Ancient‘. Ironically we were on holiday in Rhodes, on Saturday, when the challenge was set and I can’t think of too many other places more associated with ‘Ancient’ than Greece.
Continue readingPhotography – Recent Food Pics
I haven’t posted a recent pics blog for a while so, I thought I’d blog a few recent stock uploads which are food related.
Lens-Artists Challenge #368—Looking Back to Lens-Artists Challenge # 106: Autumn
Autumn is this weeks Lens-Artists ‘Looking Back’ Challenge, set by John. John’s original challenge post is here.
I don’t have that many Autumn tree or colour images that I could use in this post but what I do have is plenty of Autumn fungi shots so I’ve decided to concentrate on those for my challenge post.
Continue readingLens Artists #367 – Everyone Should See This
Joanne is this weeks host. Her challenge post is here. I’ve decided to concentrate my article on a place I think is special and that’s Washington DC, USA. In truth I could have featured any number of places but Washington is somewhere special for us.
Continue readingTravel – Rethymno, Crete, Greece
This was our first visit to Crete. We chose to stay in Rethymno as we like basing ourselves within walking distance of larger towns that we can explore on foot. We booked a package deal through TUI for a half board stay at the Aquila Porto Rethymnon Hotel and flew into Chania airport from Birmingham, UK.
Continue readingPhotography – Microsoft Co Pilot, Creating Cartoons
It’s funny, how looking around WordPress blogs can take you off in a totally different direction to the one you initially started out on. This happened to me yesterday when I began some holiday research for Rethymno, Crete, Greece.
Continue readingPhotography – Photoshop Actions
Following this weeks Lens-Artist Challenge on WP I was scrolling through some of the challenge posts. One of these was from /ˈsnæp.ʃɒt/. On Keith’s blog (it’s well worth spending some time there) I found a reference to taking pictures with a Game Boy console using a Game Boy Camera.
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