Taken while on an evening trip to Mull two weeks ago. The light was difficult and I had no tripod so this is handheld at 1/125th of a second.
It’s been a while since I have done a “100 portraits revisited”. I heard Bill Wadman on the “On Taking Pictures” podcast talking about how good Lightroom 4 is at pulling detail out of earlier sensors. This one was done on my 40D which my friend Martin now owns, and Bill was right, on updating...
This is the second shoot in my new Argyll Artists series and it was wonderful to be focusing on photography for a whole evening again. Louise Oppenheimer is a local weaver working near Dunadd in the ancient landscape of the Kilmartin Glen. Louise is hugely influenced by the local landscape and her weaving frequently depicts...
This month, country walking magazine used one of my landscape pictures under the Creative Commons license with (tiny) attribution given and permission asked for. It’s a landscape that I don’t really love, and I only included in my Flickr stream as the rainbow was captured fairly well, but the foreground is bland and uninteresting. Clearly...
Last night I had a very brief hurl around the Kilberry road on the Kintyre peninsula and stopped to admire the cloudy Jura view. Just as I do when cycling, I carry my little Canon S95 compact with me so I grabbed a snap. The interesting thing for me is the sheer flexibility of...
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