Photography: Photo of the Day – August 8th 2010

The amount of flying ants that seem to have descended on the area this afternoon is like a scene with a film that has swarm in the title, and with a toddler in tow we’ve taken shelter indoors for the rest of the afternoon. I’ve been aware of flying ants in previous years but the [...]

Photography: Photo of the Day – July 12th 2010

This one was taken in St Albans yesterday. I only recently discovered that these are pre-metamorphosis ladybirds.

Photography: Photo of the Day – July 9th 2010

The weather girl is calling it a heatwave, I call it the perfect weather to get out into the back garden to look for bugs to take photos of. The macro capabilities of the Panasonic FZ38 are fab, and this photo is a great showcase of that – this little fellow was about 1cm in [...]

Photography: Photo of the Day – July 8th 2010

Long story short, I now have a Panasonic FZ38 and from the results so far I am absolutely thrilled. While the image quality may not be as good as my A300, I never used to print large images and use them mainly for web or standard photos, and as such the images produced by my [...]

Photography: Photo of the Day – July 2nd 2010

So my new camera, Sony A300, arrived yesterday and my new lens arrived and so into the back garden I went with my Sigma 70-300 f4-5.6 Macro DG. One problem, for the first evening in weeks the sun wasn’t shining, there was lots of cloud cover and as such there was not a great deal [...]