Tag Archives: close to home

My Twelve from ’12. CB

2012 has been quite a busy year for my photography business and somehow along the way I’ve also managed to make a few decent photographs too! I have never taken the time to do a photographic year-in-review until now (at … Continue reading

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Revealing Beauty in Motion. CB

Spider mom from Amprods on Vimeo. Isn’t this an amazing little video by Alvaro Mendoza Productions? When I think of all of the small-world processes occurring as close as my own backyard which, as far as I can tell have … Continue reading

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Time passes, time passes. PHD

Far too frequently I just cannot believe the way time passes or, perhaps, how my perception of that passage has changed.  I still remember, as a child, those seemingly endless nose-pressed-against-the-window days as rain drops chased one another and I longed … Continue reading

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Supplementary lenses and stacking (part A). PHD

I have found for a while now that, with a DX format camera (crop factor 1.5) equipped with a 1:1 macro and a teleconverter (multiplier), I can fill the frame in a way that would have taken a total magnification … Continue reading

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Tales of the Unexpected – Roman Roads. PHD

The snow did not arrived as promised. It was that other phase of ‘dihydrogen monoxide’ that arrived in biblical quantities, the wet one that has shaped the ‘dark’ side of many a Celtic character. Rain, rain…go away: such was the deluge that … Continue reading

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An Italian Tale. PHD

Niall’s timely blog will have struck chords with many. I was particularly hit by his phrase “Some people acquire the “mature” appreciation of   “stuff ” early on in life and make lifestyle choices that don’t enable them to accumulate … Continue reading

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