Ann Miles Blog

Not a very sharp image as handheld at 1/15th but gives the feeling of a cold evening on the promenade - thank you to Clacton Camera Club for...

Liked the colours inside the arcade on a sunny day - quick snap with compact - must ask sometime to take a proper set of photographs.

View from Woolwich towards Docklands showing the Thames Barrier

Lucky to see this barn owl quartering a field on our way back from Welney. Taken at ISO 2000 and put through Neat Image. Surpris...

Complementary umbrellas

Very stylish umbrella seen in Cambridge while shopping.

Looking out of my window, thinking about going out and doing a bit of weeding, when a muntjac came through the hedge. It stayed for about ha...

One of images taken with 15mm lens on the London trip. Gives new view of the Albert Memorial

The rennovated St Pancras Station is a great entrance point for visitors from the Continent.

Sculpture of two dolphins by French ice sculptors. ( http://www.wharles.com/ ) Unfortunately the festival coincided with the start of the ...

Another day of freezing fog - all the twigs had picked up the frost in the wood.

Two images from an afternoon walk in the freezing fog in Toft. This is my 'favourite' tree seen from two directions!

At last, I have got round to putting South Africa, Bass Rock and Ecuador Nature pictures onto my website http://www.pin-sharp.co.uk

Very cold afternoon in Cambridge.

A wider view converted to monochrome - 16 mm lens

The lake is just about frozen over at wimpole with a light dusting of snow on the ice.

Walking in local wood, found these moss-covered roots - photographed using 15 mm fisheye they look very alien.

Image for Brian from our trip to London on Monday - I think it is your camera in the bottom right of the picture - demonstrating the wide vi...

Willows by River Cam on misty morning.

This trio caught my eye as they all looked at their cameras at the same time. No cut and paste - they are twins!

I have put a new page with 20 of the Norway photographs on my webpage - follow link on top right of this page

This was one of the dozens of lone trees I took while sledding but most were blurry as not enough light for faster shutterspeed.

Two of the twenty shots that I took of the Northern Lights converted from the Raw file. As I hoped there was a lot more colour in the Raw f...

People doing their Christmas shopping in Tromso. Our last day was very clear and had the most wonderful 'sunset' with all the colou...

View from Wilderness Centre back towards Tromso with the main bridge that connects the islands.

Spent the day with 300 Huskies - all wanting to play or take you for a sledge run. These were our two rear dogs that did most of the pullin...

This is what a 2-3 minute exposure recorded - didn't look as impressive to the eye but still a wonderful experience. This is from the ...

View of the High School with statue of King Olaf in the foreground.

Taken at 3 oclock in the afternoon - there are only 4 hours of twilight at this time of year.

I have been playing around with Monochrome conversion using Adobe Lightroom where you have eight colour 'channels' to adjust. Very u...

Good to see our barn owl back quartering the field outside my window this evening.

This albino blackbird has been around Toft for at least a year - don't know whether he bred this season but I am surprised he has surviv...

Amazing places cats end up in to keep warm.

Returned to Ely today - very bright sunny day so lots of light bouncing around in the Cathedral. Used the 15mm lens to give these two views ...

Taken on recent trip to Cumbria in high winds and driving rain - no chance of fishing boats going out

Taken with 15 mm Fish-eye converted from raw with no further manipulation - any ideas how it was done!