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It has heaved down here all day. Up until a couple of years ago this much rain would have had the road outside the house knee-deep in water, but back then a small but determined, middle-aged, middle-class pressure group managed … Continued

It was blowing a wet gale this morning. I took Arthur out for a bad-tempered walk – which is to say, I was bad-tempered; he was quite happy noodling along and smelling all the fascinating scents everywhere, while I froze, … Continued

I’m late posting today because I took too many photos and had to spend ages culling and processing – and then I was spoiled for choice and couldn’t decide which one to feature. Poor me! This week’s exercise in A Year … Continued

R and I spent some time this morning pruning the apple tree in the near garden, from which I hang some of the bird feeders. it’s quite an old tree, twisted and difficult to prune, for which reason it hasn’t … Continued

It’s a pity it’s not July, really – this would do very nicely for either Bastille Day or American Independence Day. I was slightly startled when these anemones opened, to be honest – crimson isn’t really to my taste, and … Continued

Not content with photographing this lamp for today’s challenge, I decided to incorporate crinkly foil bokeh into the image, and also to take bracketed exposures and combine them in either Lightroom or Photoshop. Both of these seemed like good ideas … Continued

R and I went to Cardiff today, on an urgent parental mission to deliver a backpack to the Animator, who is about to go on holiday. You may be perplexed to read that the capital city of the Principality appears … Continued

…is what I was, that he skulked about in the depths of a flower bed, when I was kneeling in the conservatory with the 400 lens at the ready to take his photo. After about quarter of an hour (with … Continued

The weather this morning was quite promising, so when I went to town to have lunch with my friend P I took the camera, thinking that I’d be able to get some shots at the river on my way back … Continued

The light wasn’t too bad this morning, so I went out into the back garden to have another play with my new lens – this time using a monopod to give it a little stability, a shutter speed of 1/000 … Continued