The West Ring

Last weekend we took the hounds to an off-lead socialisation event organised by Greyhound Gap. The idea behind this is that it’s a chance for the hounds to run off-lead in a safe environment, something that not all of them are able to do very often. Though ours do get to run off-lead […]

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I finally found a brief moment of time to take a picture for the DSLR Photography magazine competition. I arrived home Monday evening to find the gorgeous evening sun streaming through the living room window and I knew I had to act fast as I didn’t have long.
I placed a piece of A3 paper […]

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It might be that this is entirely obvious to everyone bar me, but I’m going to post it anyway! When you’re making adjustments using one of the pop-ups (levels: my new favourite toy ) actually use the preview option. Don’t just leave it checked, watch the changes and try and visualise the […]

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I recently noticed a few pictures that I’d uploaded to Flickr didn’t have any Exif data(and in fact still don’t as I haven’t changed them yet). I don’t know about you, but if I see a picture that I like I often take a look at the Exif, primarily as a learning exercise. […]

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I don’t know whether to be disappointed or laugh at my naivety.
Let me explain. Our holiday cottage in Cornwall was booked long before the 350D arrived and blew me away with its potential. In the weeks before the holiday I read a load of back issues of a variety of photographic magazines (thanks […]

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I’ve just read a very interesting and thought-provoking post by Jim M. Goldstein in his blog. The gist of it is that if you’re entering any sort of contest or even posting your pictures on the likes of Facebook then you’re possibly handing over all future rights to that image. Read his post, […]

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Dad has very generously lent me one of his lenses on a long term loan. It’s the Canon EF 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM so a real step from the kit lens. I’m looking forward to picking it up at the weekend and giving it a whirl.
For those not up with the Canon acronyms […]

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…is that it is as complicated as it first seemed! Especially as I have thrown myself in at the deep-end trying to photograph a fast moving subject in our two hounds. Still, I’m making progress and that’s what counts.
Looking at my first attempts I could see that quite often it appeared that their bums […]

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A bit slow in processing and posting these, sorry
No waffle this time, just a link to the pictures and a teaser (AKA nearly a classic)

I really wish I’d caught his face in focus.
Still, it makes me laugh

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Last of the Thursley pond pics from Saturday morning. We’ll be back to the hounds very soon This is probably my favourite because of the curving contrail*, and the snake-like reflection of it.
This is also my first proper attempt with doing some Photoshopping: I cloned out some grass that was […]

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