Category Archives: Photography
I’m making good progress on sorting out my photos from last year’s Santorini trip, with the intention of getting them finished before the anniversary… 🙂
I was going to publish a series of the Caldera sunsets in weekly instalments. I may still do that, but processing this wonderfully peaceful image made a slight departure from the plan irresistible.
I call it “Caldera Sunset Zen”. Let me know if you like it.
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I’m finally getting round to processing the shots from my Santorini trip – only about a year late! The sunsets over the Caldera really are quite amazing. Here’s one, and I’ll post a couple more over the next few weeks. Continue reading →
Thursday, September 9, 2010 in
Photography,
Santorini,
Travel
There are lots of great car museums in the world, and I’ve visited more than a few. However, the majority are difficult or impossible to photograph, unless you’re a “down in the details” sort of photographer, which I’m definitely not. Continue reading →
Saturday, August 14, 2010 in
Photography
We used to take the mickey out of Japanese user manuals for not being written very well. My favourite example was “engine not turning very round”, although sadly I suspect that may have been apocryphal. Now, I think there’s a Continue reading →
Monday, July 26, 2010 in
Photography
Here’s a picture from my Swiss trip last year. I was a little disappointed with my shots from Montreux – it’s such a compact town it’s very difficult to isolate the buildings and features from one another. However, I’m reasonably Continue reading →
Saturday, July 24, 2010 in
Photography
Hi, welcome to my new photo blog. Here’s a shot taken on my trip to Santorini last year, a “grab shot” of a rather nice yacht scudding along in one of the island’s trademark sunsets. The triangular shapes at the Continue reading →
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 in
Photography,
Santorini,
Travel
The limitations of Image Stabilisation, and how camera manufacturers could address them very simply Continue reading →
Thursday, July 8, 2010 in
Photography
Quite a lot of news… Migration of our web sites and email to the new hosting server is almost complete. See previous article/rant for some of my findings. After some initial frustration with my hosting provider (WebFusion) when I discovered Continue reading →
What’s missing from the typical DSLR, anno 2010? What could be improved, using simple established technologies, to make the DSLR a better picture-taking device? And why don’t the major DSLR manufacturers do some of these things, which might help sales? Continue reading →
Friday, May 14, 2010 in
Photography