Frost Patterns (18th January)

We had a couple of very cold nights before I went to Brighton and these wonderful frost patterns developed on our unheated bedroom window. They made me feel like I am looking up on a snowy starry night in a northern forest!!

Playing with Autumn Colours

I spent some of the day at Sandy playing with the autumn colours using double exposure, plus camera movement on one of the exposures, soft focus, blending images with different depths of field finishing with a couple of straight shots. The first image features a cameo from a misted-up notice board

Cambridge Firework Display

Last night was the return of a free firework display in Cambridge after a three-year wait and was witnessed by a large crowds despite the rainy conditions.  

Botanical Studies

Barry and Ken ran a very enjoyable workshop yesterday with Still-life as its theme and invited everyone to contribute some subjects - this resulted in a wonderful collection of vegetables, fruit, flowers, vases, memorabilia etc. I spent all afternoon photographing the different glass vases and bottles plus flowers that were contributed. Unfortunately, I managed to delete the folder of images before downloading but hope to retrieve at some stage. So here are my morning offerings using a lightbox and overhead lighting (continuous or flash), plus a bottle and hops with a light pad back illumination and a shell lit by studio flash. Hopefully my main project will rise from the ashes for later sharing

Points of View in Histon

Every year, our camera club has a day of photography projects set by the 'winner' of the previous year - the aim therefore is to avoid that first place!!. Penny set the topics in her home village of Histon and our topics were Creatures, Pub Life, Trees, Entrances and Colour. Here some images taken on the day that either did not fit any category but I couldn't resist or are 'rejects'.