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Photography on the fly.

Posted on October 16, 2018 by

We’re well into autumn now and I recently decided I needed some photographs of that spectacular fungus, the fly agaric. I was up in north Wales for a couple of days, and a mixed forecast suggested I might get some … Continue reading →

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Dicing with death (part 2)

Posted on September 1, 2018 by

Another recent trip took me up to north Wales. I walked up on to Conway Mountain (Mynydd-y-dref) one morning and found the prospects so promising that in the afternoon I made a repeat visit. I have good memories of Conway … Continue reading →

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Dicing with death (part 1)

Posted on August 26, 2018 by

I’ve always said that August is one of my favourite months for landscape photography and nothing I have seen this year will make me change my mind. It’s just a pity the weather in August seems so consistently bad. I … Continue reading →

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A sad day.

Posted on August 18, 2018 by

August 7th was a sad day. We had been fighting to save our ash tree for more than ten years and on that day we finally lost the battle. We bought the house in 2006 and it felt like a … Continue reading →

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The perils of using an ND filter.

Posted on July 13, 2018 by

In October last year (see this post) I wrote about using a ten-stop neutral density filter at a rather surreal stretch of coastline near Aberdaron on the Llyn Peninsula. As waves came in I used exposures of several seconds to … Continue reading →

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….. and later that same morning……….

Posted on July 2, 2018 by

Having exhausted most of the wood warbler possibilities (see previous post) and with over 400 images to examine and process, my mind turned to other things. It was still early in the morning and just a few miles away it would … Continue reading →

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Spirit of the woodland.

Posted on June 27, 2018 by

The wood warbler has always been a special bird for me. I recall an early May morning at Ynyshir reserve when a wood warbler would perch on a the end of low branch and sing its gorgeous song. Its whole … Continue reading →

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Help! Am a turning into a twitcher?

Posted on May 5, 2018 by

Earlier this week I headed down to Kidwelly near Carmarthen. Having arrived there I checked the Pembs Bird Blog – as I regularly do – to find that a green heron had been found near Narberth, only about 25 miles … Continue reading →

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A Norwegian coastal cruise (Part 2) and some thoughts on photographing the Northern Lights.

Posted on April 22, 2018 by

Was there anything else? Oh, yes…….the northern lights! Unless conditions are absolutely perfect, a moving ship will be rocking backwards and forwards and from side to side, with engine vibration to add to the photographer’s misery.  There wasn’t any prospect … Continue reading →

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A Norwegian coastal cruise (Part one)

Posted on April 21, 2018 by

In March I did the unthinkable….. went on a cruise.  You’ve probably seen the ‘Northern Lights Cruise’ adverts featuring a stunning photograph of the Aurora set in a spectacular Norwegian landscape. Closer inspection revealed that almost all these promotional images … Continue reading →

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