Datline: April 25th 2020
The lonely postbook. This postbox sits in the middle of the countryside, on Ballyknockan Road, between Ballygowan and …. um, nowhere at all? (It leads onto the road between Saintield and Carryduff)
I just felt sorry for it. Poor thing.
Dateline: April 23rd 2020
It’s really difficult getting a home delivery from Asda during the Lockdown, unless you live in Ballybeen, when you just push the trolley a couple of miles up the road. Simples!
I mean, who’s going to stop you?
Datline: April 23rd 2020
Up along the Tullyhubbert Road today, and there’s a pair of swans on the wee lake, very much in love too, judging by the pose they struck in this photo! Socially isolated too – no other birds on the lake today.
#swans #swanlake
Datline: April 22nd 2020
No walk today, so inside photography instead! Janette had these Jamjars sitting on the cooker hob, waiting to be filled with delicious homemade jam (Not for me of course!)
Datline: April 21st 2020
We have Clematis growing profusely all over a trellis in the garden, and they’ve just started to flower, so the time was right to shoot the new blossoms with a 200mm Macro Lens, – Nikon Lens on Fuji mirrorless camera. Manual focus with focus-peaking.
Datline: April 20th 2020
I love TEXTURES and this old barn door has texture aplenty! It’s just down the road from where I live, so I wasn’t breaking the Lockdown when I went to photograph it. Honestly Constable…
Datline: April 19th 2020
I found a gate. That wasn’t the hard part. The gate was secured by a piece of string or twine, so I painted it! It’s an oil painting, made with a camera, and produced in post-processing.
Datline: April 17th 2020
More barbed wire. And a demonstration of shallow depth of field, – lens aperture wide open, giving creamy bokeh, made using focus-peaking to get the pin-sharp focus.
Datline: April 16th 2020
No, it’s NOT a selfie! It’s a close-up of a friendly cow’s nose, to demonstrate the sharpness of the focus on the Fujifilm X-T30 / Sigma 135mm Prime Lens. (Nikon fit – MF). Focus peaking is the method!
Datline: April 15th 2020
Lens Flare. I’d gone for a walk along Tullygarvan Road with a 135mm Sigma (Nikon fit) MF lens on the Fujifilm X-T30, and I focussed along the road, to where this couple were walking away from my position, but the strong sunlight falling across the lens created a rainbow effect. No Photoshop needed! Should I have rejected the image?
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