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Author Archives: Steve Hyde
LENS-ARTISTS CHALLENGE #363: Virtual Scavenger Hunt
This week Anne has set the Lens-Artists challenge. She’s asked us to match five to ten images, scavenged from our portfolios, to a list of themes she has provided. You can find Anne’s original post here.
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Lens-Artists Challenge #362: Sports, Sporting Events and Fun Games
Beth (of Wandering Dawgs) has chosen Sports, Sporting Events, and Fun Games as this weeks Lens-Artist Challenge. Check out her post and photos. Here’s my take on this weeks challenge.
Continue readingPhotography – Fujifilm XF 80mm F/2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro Lens
A year or so ago I invested in a Fujifilm XF80mm F2.8 Macro lens. It’s an expensive lens to buy new, retailing at over £1000 in the UK. I bought mine second hand from MPB for about £600. It was advertised as mint condition and I wasn’t disappointed, it was like new. I buy all my lenses, used, from MPB these days and I would wholeheartedly recommend them.
Continue readingBaking – Recent bakes
I’ve needed to write a short blog to catch up on some of my recent bakes and food images. So here goes. First up is a Lemonopita, a Greek Lemon Pie. The idea for making this came about after we discovered lemon pie in a new Greek bakery in Bristol. It’s the same as a Greek Orange Pie, made with crushed filo pastry, but uses a lemon syrup, rather than orange syrup, to soak the cake.
Continue readingLens-Artists Challenge #361- Looking Back to #20: Doors
Sofia hosts this weeks ‘looking back’ challenge and invites us to post pictures of doors and doorways. Here original Lens-Artist Challenge post can be found here. I’m going to repost a few images here that I’ve used in older door challenge posts. There’s a few new images but apologies if some of you have seen these before.
Continue readingThe Easter Lily Cactus
We’ve had a tiny round cactus plant at home for about five years or so now. I think it probably came home with us as one of a pack of tiny cacti from Ikea. I’ve never really bothered with it and it normally sits, out of the way, on a book shelf, at the back of the kitchen. It’s in a really good warm, light position.
Continue readingLens-Artists Challenge #360 – Found at the Fair/ Market
Ann-Christine has set this weeks Lens-Artist Challenge and has asked us to post images related to markets. Her original challenge post can be found here.
Continue readingGromit Unleashed 3 – Part 2
We went back in to Bristol yesterday to meet up with my daughter, Zoe, and three of our grandchildren, Ewan, Barney and Toby, with the intention of visiting a few more Gromit Unleashed 3 Sculptures. We decided to go in to the Clifton area of the city and pick off the five figurines located there.
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