Category Archives: personal blog

The arrival of the next issue of B&W Photography is usually eagerly awaited and Issue 267 was no different. Like all of the magazines I receive, I’ve paid for it so I’m going to read it from cover to cover. Usually there is an article that makes me think, and this month it was aContinue reading “698 – B&W Photography”

Why do I want to do street photography – since I started doing this blog not far off two years ago now I have written a fair number of times about the practice. I like taking all sorts of photos, from macro (I really need to practice this – and might indulge in a bitContinue reading “697 – Street Photography”

At the end of the working day there’s not much better than having a cup of tea at the bottom of the garden. We always enjoy having birds in the garden, even the pigeons although my wife might disagree, she’s not that fond of them. I don’t what has happened to the starlings, I haven’tContinue reading “696 – Just sitting around.”

I started out trying to write a piece about my feeling grumpy today, and I did do for several reasons; I bumped my head, that made me feel grumpy, I stumbled over something that I had left laying around. My wife leaves the fridge door open too long, that makes me grumpy. But really theseContinue reading “695 – Mildly Grumpy”

Today we reached 26C. Now, there are a lot of places that get a lot hotter but for me this was on the edge of uncomfortable. I managed to get out for a walk though in the early afternoon. The town was quite lively, the Saturday market was on, with the usual stalls. – it’sContinue reading “694 – It’s Hot!”

I was in bed only a few minutes later than my normal time, and as usual, no screens. I went out, as they say, like a light earlier than usual. I slept solid until not much before 0530, I normally awaken around 0400, all the initial indications are that I’d had a good nights sleep.Continue reading “693 – Good Sleep, bad morning”

The problem I have is light. Now that I have started taking my DSLR camera out with me in the morning, I have already noticed the loss of light where the mornings are drawing in. It’s not an issue as far as my eyes are4 concerned, but most of the pictures I am taking onContinue reading “692 – Cameras”

I know that I wrote about the morning walk only a few posts ago, and here we are again, but this is a slightly different focus. There are things about each walk; some never change, others are never the same. When I stepped out the door for this mornings walk, the chilled are made appreciateContinue reading “691 – The Morning Walk – Again”

The iPhone 12 has an excellent camera. It has three lenses, each with a zoom factor; 0.5 (wide angle), 1 (normal) and 2.5 (zoom). The phone also has the facility for a 12x digital zoom. Now, there are times when I do use the zoom, but it becomes very useful obvious, very quickly that thereContinue reading “690 – Nikon D5300”

It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, carrying the DSLR with the 18-400 lens, and a good shoulder strap. There is no doubt that the camera produces a better quality picture than the iphone, but I don’t wish to run the phone down, because the camera is really good. Todays writing isContinue reading “689 – Using the DSLR”