Members' Photography Blogs

Zhang Yimou.... Who ? The owner of the mind and imagination that has just created the opening ceremony of the 2008 olympic games. He also happens to be China's most famous film maker; a sort of George Lucas oriental style !. How can London pos...

When I joined ePHOTOzine on 28 July 2004, my goal was to learn. I enjoyed my photography, but I was very much aware of the fact that I was a pretty clueless snapper. From what I saw on the site, I concluded that this was a place where I could pic...

Had a good day out walking to Alport Castles in the Peak District but a word of warning, it is crawling or rather swarming with midges. I now have a nice collection of bites!

Last night an elderly man from out village who is a bit of a gentle recluse living with his son and dog was , for absolutely no reason, battered about the head with a cricket bat by a youth from a nearby town. He was battered so hard and with such vi...

I did warn you in my first blog that my entries might be a bit haphazard… It's been a little while, so I thought it was time for another diving update: Well, we did dive that Sunday but we didn't get down to 18m as the buoy marking the point had ...

I have now finished for a month out of the work system, im on nights next week then 3 weeks off, its a tough life lol lol

Early start at work today. Therefore 'No Blog Friday - the series' is posted earlier than usual ;) Have a great weekend everyone. SMILE - Make the world think you are an idiot :)

- Everything always works at home, everything always fails on location. - The lens that falls, is always the most expensive. - When you drop a lens cap, the inside part always lands face down in the mud. - Insects always want to land on the ...

Last year I decided to start a blog about my daily life. After 3 months or so of irregular entries I binned it. Why ?, well it simply became a means for me to complain about almost everything. I was becoming a real Victor Meldrew. I realised that ...

Last night I decided to take a look at the critique gallery. I realized that after almost 2 years on epz, and studying photography, that I have gained enough knowledge to be able to feel comfortable giving more detailed critiques. I know that I...

Internet seems to be doing better now... keeping my fingers crossed... going to try and C+C while it is working.. :)

A mixed bag of weather warm and sunny this morning so I hopped on a bus to the local park which was awarded best park the other year. The place was quiet as it was early morning, no school children and I wandered around looking for bees. So tommo...

Here's a way to re-colour eyes in photoshop CS2/CS3, say you want the model in your portrait shot to have green eyes instead of blue. First zoom up close to the eyes, by holding down the ctrl key and pressing the + key on your keyboard. Then dupli...

Don't know why though. I will actually be just as busy tomorrow as I am today. I suppose it is the thought of the weekend that makes me look forward to Fridays. Times have changed recently though. We all used to go to the pub on a Friday lunchtime t...

Baby Riley born last night in less than 4 hours, weighing 7lbs and 4 ozs. He was born at home which was lovely..not our home I hasten to add ! :) We had a phone call at 12.30 am ..could we please go and buy some new born feeding teats as she had forg...

It was Open Day at our local vets today. They open up the operating theatres, put on demonstrations and there were lots of stalls and fun things to do. There were many visitors including a motorbike charity run, and animals of all sorts from a boa c...

I survived Christmas. Only just - but I did it. My word; it was touch and go, on one or two occasions. When the grandchildren arrived on Boxing Day. They're like the rampaging Teutonic hordes sometimes. And Boxing Day was one of those times. It...

Don't you just love all the spring blossoms on trees and shrubs? I certainly do! But just a straight shot of a tree can be quite dull, so I was looking for something unusual to do with this one. So I included the blossomless tree on the left a...

Getting there at last without resorting to murder and reduceing the swearing to one in four words I have nearly sorted the two exhibitions. The rspca stuff has been printed, foamboarded (surly the greatest ever form of mounting) and delivered. Tha...

The best lens i have ever used.....great for outdoor photography....a bit pricey but worth every penny....i have used it with eos 50D and works like a charm.. Akif

So as of Tomorrow 27th May 2011 I'll be on the road off to the Northeast of England.. When not taking pictures I have to earn pennies to pay for all my expensive hobbies. Camera, as usual with be with me all the way, this time armed with my NEW Si...

Or lash rather - the only photos I've taken today have been for the Monday Night Challenge - the subject being eyes. Having scrubbed my face already this evening I made up one eye and stuck on a rather extravagant feather eyelash - and stuck it on w...

My daughter made a christmas cake today. The icing looks good :P Taken with the iphone using instagram larger version in the group

His majesty, master of all he surveys. Bigger seagull here

An easy shot for the day. Just a satsuma on a sheet of black perspex. Bigger view

Another stay at home day today - I surfaced at my normal time for work - started to get ready and by 7.30am, my usual leaving the house time, was still in my dressing gown. I realised then that I was still feeling less than wonderful - obviously my ...

Hey Guys and Girls I've got a few shoots coming up and was wondering if anyone could help me with locations in and around Leeds. I've got a 1920's shoot coming up and a cosplay nightwing shoot coming up but don't know of any nice place's where ...

No chance for a shot at lunchtime today, so instead I setup a quick still life. We normally like to visit the lakes every year (sometimes twice a year). Unfortunately we won't be visiting this year - I just don't think I would be able to cope with t...

Looks like summer really is over.

Someone in the forums asked about removing stains from a colored image, I replied with a detailed answer of how to remove the stain. I thought I would add the steps here, but for old black and whites that have been stained, as I think this process w...

My story begins when I was 4..When i first could recognise my dad's Canon SLR..it was a huge and amazing camera...I can't recall its model now but I certainly see my magnificent childhood photos and recall how great it was...When I asked him if I can...

Although i have known for some time i can now confirm that i am now a Fotospeed sponsored lecturer. If your club is interested then i am happy to travel up to 2 hours from Birmingham during the week even at short notice (by agreement). I can be c...

Well I have to put a stop to the kitchen cupboard challenge as I'm running out of bits :P. Large version in the 365 group

Buenos días, EPZ members. What a privilege it is to be here, to connect with photographers from all around the world. I certainly hope I can bring something of my own to this community, as much as I plan to take away. Being younger than the majority ...

Cold on its way out now but not really much in the mood for moving around much so the nearest thing was the christmas tree, and the app store on the iphone so I've tried a few more out on just one christmas ball. It may or may not work but its bet...

I've never really got into macro photography but I've just been having a play, mostly because I'm getting fed up with the capabilities of the iphone ho hum Anyway I know its not brilliant but its a start, I guess :D

I'm still trying out photo apps on my iPhone. Once again an app that no one will take very seriously, but it's fun - although only suitable for a very limited number of applications. News Booth allows you to quickly add a news format and headline...

Any serious travel photographer has got to go to Rome. What a place. I was in Rome last year, November, first week. It was a busy and eventful year for me, 2011, and only now I'm going through the images saved as raw files on disk. I mus...

My sister rang me last night to say that she'd found a sheep skull in the woods and was dropping it round to me today. On my arrival home there on the doorstep was this rather lovely item, plus jaw-bones and another bit of jaw - aren't I lucky girl ...

Me being me, i forgot to swap my lens over on my film camera, and i had already put film in it so didnt want to risk messing the film up. So using a digital lens on my film camera i managed to get this photograph. Oh and the lines are my exposure tes...

Last November I bought my self a bridge camera, a FujiFilm HS20EXR :D I love this camera and it has allowed me to take some amazing photo's. I decided to buy this camera so I could take high quality photo's of my daughter to have printed and kept in ...

Got taken to our local - and very pleasant - wethies for dinner ( chicken tika for those who simply have to know) and am now chillin wid a glass o lager while listening to de vibes on Radio 2. Ha, old farts know how to do it in style. Probably get an...

Maybe not the mot inspiring shot I've ever taken but as a test of my new lens it was all that I was going to be able to get. I took delivery this evening of a Nikon 55-300 but sadly, by the time I got hold of it, it was dark and raining outsi...

I really want to say thank you for your support and kind wishes guys, I have to say your messages have lifted my spirits after a difficult 36 hours. I did manage to get out today to go to the bowls club, I have the huge responsibility of caring...

Thought I might be interesting to save a copy of my original About Me to my blog before changing it. As it may be interesting (to me at least) to see how my "Abouts" change over time to reflect changes in my photography. So here it is:- Best to ...