Category Archives: Canon 500D

Cochno waterworks tower

Yesterday I had a day off work. I travel around the Clydebank area as part of my work and recently had spotted this water tower in the distance, but didn’t know anything about it. My free time yesterday was therefore employed in trying to find the tower from my best guesses about its location. When...

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John Lewis cafe

HB and I were killing time in the Buchanan Galleries, and one of her pleasures is a babyccino while I have a cappuccino. We had a pleasant chat, she had a little game on my ipad, and then she got the much awaited babyccino. It came made beautifully by a lovely barista with lots of...

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Astrogirl?

HB and I went to the bookshop this afternoon and we bought some lovely bedtime stories. As we walked back to fetch our car, I asked her if she would let me take a quick photo of Sauchiehall Street in the darkness. She kindly assented, but then surprised me by saying “Dad, take my picture”....

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Balmoral Hotel 2

I was lucky to get this one sharp at all. It was dark and very rainy as well as getting into twilight. (The clock confirms this of course!). I selected ISO 1600 and only got 1/20th of a second using f10. I adjusted ISO up for my next few shots but luckily this one worked...

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The Scott Monument

While wandering along Princes Street yesterday in heavy rain, I stopped to grab a shot of the Scott Monument. Such sunlight as was peeking out of the clouds caused a degree of backlighting which meant that the detail on the monument had to be pushed using the highlights control in software. The other problem was...

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