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This house has been empty for 30 years, so why do the windows stay so clean?
Such photogenic windows too, with their 90 year old, hand made glass.
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Well, their outfits may well look a bit silly, but remember they own a major
chunk of New York City, including B & H Photo!
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There is something quiet and restful about this image that I find appealing.
And also it reminds me of a fun golf outing with the guys from my former
office - most of us couldn’t play, so it was quite hilarious, and a
beautiful evening too by the River Annan. Location:Hoddam Golf Course,
Dumfries & Galloway
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We had been at an exhibition of Ted Leeming’s work (www.tedleeming.com),
and been impressed by the immense sharpness of his 1200 x 450mm landscape
prints, from a Canon EOS 1DS MK 2. Probably this image was my attempt at a of woodland shot, with a similar level of sharpness.
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Dean Village. Maybe men talk even more than women….or just to avoid
working? I know, they were waiting for materials to arrive!
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This nice man was out walking his dog along the side of the river, and I
asked if I could take some photos of him. Turned out his daughter was a
professional photographer.
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Volvos, Alfas, even classic 911’s, Tom can fix anything. Canon 5D,
24-105mm ISO 1600, F/4 at 1/8th sec. Impossible, for me at least, without the
the clever image stabilisation!
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Shot on my old Pentax, and not great quality, but still I like it as it
feels strangely like a painting..
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‘Grey squirrels?, nah, you don’t get ‘em round these parts. Too damn cold!’
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Without the handrail and the figure, you would have no idea of the immense
scale of these smooth, beautiful rocks.
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Steve was one of the 3 guys who put up the windfarm test masts. They had a
cool fire engine red Unimog 4000. Very macho looking machine!
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Coming home on a cargo ship from Gothenburg was certainly different. But we
met some nice guys who’d been erecting 90m test masts for wind farms in the
south of Sweden.
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Marstrand Island. An elderly lady struggles up the hill with her shopping
trolley. Taken 17th May, before the streets are thronged with the yachty
people.
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The ferry is named ‘Lasse Maja’ after a prisoner who was escaped from the
fortress by dressing up in women’s clothes. Yes, really! And yeah, I’ve got
dust on my sensor, but not too bad otherwise.
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I suppose the bokeh is better on the f/2.8, but so much heavier, and costly.
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The summer people haven’t arrived at the lakeside yet, so it’s beautiful to
wander around with only birdsong breaking the silence.
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Sometimes when I was sorting out the firewood, I found myself pausing, and
thinking, ‘this is too beautiful to burn.’
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Taken with the 5D and the 24-105mmf/4L, the verticals corrected with
Lens-fix CI. When viewed on a Imac 24″ you can see that the stonework on
the church is amazingly sharp. ISO 400 at f/10, 1/400sec at 24mm. My
nephew, Iain Guthrie, who recommended I buy a 5D, and who uses his for
professional aerial photography, was quite right in saying that in decent
light, the 5D gives as good quality at ISO 400 than at anything lower.
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He’s 88 and he can still drink me under the table! He, and his wife, Hildur Krantz+Jensen, were both very successful journalists in Stockholm, in the 70’s and 80’s.
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Can’t decide whether reflections are going to take over from misty lakes as
my most desirable type of landscape shot!
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It looked so beautiful against the night sky, though I found focussing
tricky in such low light.
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Part of the same view from the previous shot. If you think you can see a
tree house…..it’s actually an elk shooting platform.
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Driving up from Skavsta on the 4th May. Beautiful light. Lovely countryside.
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Last summer. Driving back from Fjällgrycksbo to Bergen to catch the boat
back to Newcastle. I was very much into misty lakes (this one is in Sweden,
near the Norwegian border). I love landscapes where you need to gaze into
the image for several seconds to figure out what’s going on. For that
reason, I think ‘Corncockle Wood’ is my best landscape shot.
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Through viewing a contact’s inspiring macro shots, I was reminded that I’ve
a seldom used Canon 100mm f/2.8 macro sulking on my shelf. So this is one
of my recent 5/10 attempts with it. Actually it’s fun not to working with
a zoom lens, if quite not so much fun as taking my old Leica M2, (so quiet
and discreet, and still looking like new), on a recent trip to London, when
I stupidly kept looking at the back of the camera to review what I’d taken!
An age thing.
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