Photography: Photo of the Day – 2nd November 2010

So it’s been a long time since I’ve updated this blog, mainly because I’ve been concentrating on Dedicated to Disneyland Paris, that and I’ve been working from home with my right hand in a splint thanks to a chronic case of De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis. Since I last posted I sold my Panasonic FZ38, bought and [...]

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 10th 2010

Not much dialogue to go with this photo – too hot and tired! Enjoy…

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 [...]

Photography: Photo of the Day – June 29th 2010

On a day like this it’s almost criminal not to get out at lunch time, so I did just that and took a walk down to the canal. However, I never actually reached the canal as I was drawn to some young damselflies (or are they dragonflies?) and my snapping began. As with all these photos – click the [...]

Photography: Photo of the Day – 28th June 2010

Just a quick stroll round the park at lunchtime and I came across this unfortunate fellow. Not up there with professional levels of quality but it still amazes the level of detail my 3 year old Panasonic TZ1 is able to capture. For a compact camera the Panasonic TZ series are pretty hard to beat, [...]

Photography: Photo of the Day – 27th June 2010

I could be accused of posting a photo which is very similar to the first photo of the day, and you may have just cause for that accusation. However, as varied as the 20 plus shots I took on our walk today were, this one was is favourite. I must have a thing for red [...]