Category Archives: Photography

0211 7D 4467 | Butterfly at the Royal Horticultural Society Gardens, Wisley

Camera: Canon EOS 7D | Date: 04-02-2011 14:41 | ISO: 400 | Exp. Mode: Aperture priority | Exp. bias: 0 EV | Exp. Time: 1/30s | Aperture: 7.1 | Focal Length: 85.0mm | Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm f3.5-5.6 IS USM

To celebrate the Vernal Equinox and the unseasonably pleasant weather we’ve had in the UK for the last two weeks, I thought it would be a good idea to post a nice Spring picture. By coincidence I’ve been processing some shots from a trip to the Royal Horticultural Society Gardens at Wisley, more or less a year ago. However, with the late Spring last year most of my best flower shots are of tropical orchids, which would be cheating, so instead here’s a butterfly!

1010 550D 0297-0 Montage | Andrew Elt, regular guest vocalist with the Walter Trout Band, on stage at the Mick Jagger Centre, Dartford

Camera: Canon EOS 550D | Date: 31-10-2010 22:52 | Resolution: 9012 x 3761 | ISO: 3200 | Exp. Mode: Aperture priority | Exp. bias: -1 EV | Exp. Time: 1/25s | Aperture: 6.3 | Focal Length: 85.0mm | Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f4-5.6 IS USM

Sorting out a few old photos, I got to some I took at a concert by the Walter Trout band in October 2010. Those of the great man himself and the other instrumentalists are fine, but I was particularly pleased with this sequence featuring the band’s regular “guest vocalist” (and roadie, and CD salesman), Andrew Elt. His performances are always absolutely bone-tingling, and this was no exception, but he also looks the part!

The images were taken with my Canon 550D held at full stretch above my head in what passes for a ”mosh pit” at the Mick Jagger Centre, and I’ve used 4 out of a sequence of 9. Thank <insert deity of choice here> for ISO 3200 and image stabilisation!

1010 7D 2214 | Sunrise at the hotel, Chania

Camera: Canon EOS 7D | Date: 11-10-2010 06:04 | ISO: 200 | Exp. Mode: Aperture priority | Exp. bias: 1/-3 EV | Exp. Time: 1/400s | Aperture: 8.0 | Focal Length: 66.0mm | Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f4-5.6 IS USM

Our 2010 trip to Crete wasn’t a great success either as a holiday or photographically, mainly due to rather grotty weather. However, I did get one or two interesting shots. If you’re tempted, have a look at the album here.

Whitechapel | Mortuary technician in Whitechapel, set in 2012, with a rather suprising camera choice!

Resolution: 887 x 591

Anachronisms in television usually consist of something too modern for the period, but I’ve just spotted the opposite. In the UK series Whitechapel the mortuary assistant takes pictures of the all-too frequent victims using a Zenit TTL. Now I know they were bomb-proof cameras – I owned one in the early 1980s and dropped it down a Pyrenee – and I know Whitechapel isn’t the wealthiest corner of London, but surely the Metropolitan police and the London Coroner’s Office could afford something saying Canon or Nikon? Not convinced…