Members' Photography Blogs

11PM no photo taken and no idea what to take, have I failed in my 365 attempt. I thought I might have until I spied this tin, It is called the tea tin. Not that it ever contained tea as far as I know but because it is used to collect the tea ...

Last week i did a wedding shoot for a friend something that i am not really happy doing ( i would much rather be on a beach at sunset ) it's only took our friends 16 years to get around to getting married and three kids later they thought now was a...

As I was writing the title to this blog post, I suddenly realised it has a double meaning. Unintentional, but nice. :-) I've had quite a few different cameras over the years, and sometimes more than one at a time. Before I went digital, the l...

The plan was to take photos of some bluebells in the garden...however, there were water droplets everywhere and in the end I preferred the image of the green leaves rather than the bluebells....

One To Go. Yesterday at about 1 pm Mum had a phone call, asking if she could get to the hospital by 2.30 pm. After a flurry of activity we managed it, with a little time to spare! She's had her right eye operated on to remove a cataract (the l...

What a busy day, Thursday is bowls day and I went still feeling a bit down but things soon improved. My first bowl was spot on stealing the jack from my opponent who's bowl was touching the jack and his bowl never moved. We packed up at lunchtime a...

When passing the greengrocers this morning got my eyes on some newly delivered strawberries and had a flashback to the image Ken (Rambler) had posted a couple of days ago. After buying a punnet of them, went to the local supermarket and bought a tub ...

Four and half years !!! Has it really been that long?? Four and a half years since I last wrote to my blog on here - anyone miss me? ;) A lot can happen in four and half years. I wonder how many people read these blogs now? When I used to do i...

Some days it is difficult to find the inspiration to think of another subject for a photograph. Some days life seems to get in the way and mood prevents creativity. Today was such a day. I did manage to get one image that I liked, not because it i...

Rather an unusual colour for a car....wonder if it's original?

Some years ago, I took photos in and around an old, abandoned art deco building in the Netherlands - Radio Kootwijk. It used to be a radio station for international phone communications, but of course at some point it was redundant, and vacated. ...

It has been a busy day today going out to visit friends and then home for a visit from my daughters. My friend Frank has just returned from a cruise to the Canary Islands and it was our first opportunity to catch up. We managed less than an hour ...

I suppose it was my own fault for not phoning first but I acted on impulse and that was when it began to go wrong. I wanted to buy some axle stands to support the floor of my mobile home to protect it from the manic shaking of my washing machine. I f...

Saw some beautiful vintage cars in Liverpool recently and had a lovely time talking to the owners. Did a little bit of research and found out that you could pick up a Bentley Flying B Car Mascot ornament online for £179.99, somehow I thought it...

Made a visit to the Museum of London today because I wanted to photograph the old art deco lift that used to be in The Savoy hotel before they "improved" it. It's a very dark museum so I was lucky to get anything at all. I tried using flash to get ...

Up early today...for me anyway...I'm off to hospital for the application of a stent in the heart. The surgeon is going to try and fit one, even though the artery is fully blocked. I'm told there's a 70% chance of success. Fingers crossed.

The old saying "there are two sides to a coin" is a very poignant message for me at the moment. We have fall outs on ePHOTOzine, people not getting along, differences of opinion etc. This morning we banned someone. It's not important who. What i...

As most of you know, I had a heart attack last week. I'm at home recuperating - under doctors orders. It all feels weird. I have to rest but I cannot see (or really feel) the scar. What also feels weird is after spending all my wake hours (and so...

I know that this is absolutely nothing to do with photography but as this is my blog I hope I will be forgiven for asking for advice. I have been diagnosed with acute GERD which is severe acid reflux but it has got so bad that it is affecting my br...

I've been on the site more than seven years and despite many things that have happened negatively as a direct response to my membership on here I have never felt pushed to take a time out of more than a few days. That is no longer the case! It ...

Tarryn was born on Saturday evening and he is such a very beautiful 9 lb baby. My daughter had a really dreadful labour which was quite scarey as she is so very tiny herself. Fortunately all is well now and she came home yesterday with strict instru...

Just a very quick blog as I will not be uploading for the time being. Mum's first operation on Christmas Eve went sadly wrong and on Friday night she was rushed into theatre as she was desperately ill and they had to redo all the original work and ...

...or has it just begun? There are a few folks on the site, who have been aware of the sadness and gloom, which has been hanging over the Tomcat household for the last few weeks. Others much to their credit, have pitched in with messages/comments...

Found out today that my Dad is dying. That's it really. Just trying to come to terms with the news whilst being 'The Big Roughy-Toughy' for the family and... knowing that no-one will read this - but at the same time, recognising that writing wh...

Well, where do you start. I just found out my niece, Gracie, 4 months old and with an entire life ahead of her, has passed away. She was teething very badly, and this led to heart failure. We never even got the chance to meet her. How sad is ...

I used to like Ephotozine, a good place to meet fellow enthusiasts and get some good critique and helpful advice. Unfortunately (it seems TO ME - please note that this is my opinion) it has become the photographic equivalent of the Daily Mail. i.e. j...

A few of you, have expressed an interest in my set up at the woods. This image shows the general set up The "hide" etc; - which I actually sit down in on a fold-away chair:D This next image shows the view from the hide, including the perchi...

Look what arrived in the post today - thank you Yael (my sister) :) Actually there are 15 of them - I think some fun will be had in due course. I've already got a piccy planned - just got to props to make sometime over the weekend.....

My wife is a dedicated gardener. Not a particularly good gardener - just a dedicated one. She planted some (what she called) bulls-eye daisies just outside of the lounge window. My friend across the road said they looked like meadow weed - cowslip ...

I am using my blog to wish absolutely everybody a really Happy New Year. My mum has had her operation but she has contracted a kidney and lung infection since the op so is really poorly and we have been visiting every day. She is still in the High...

I have been interested in photography since the beginning of 2006 and since then been trying to improve myself. I believe that photography is one of the best and most effective ways to express yourself. I generally take nature photos but also like ta...

When passing the greengrocers this morning got my eyes on some newly delivered strawberries and had a flashback to the image Ken (Rambler) had posted a couple of days ago. After buying a punnet of them, went to the local supermarket and bought a tub ...

Made a visit to the Museum of London today because I wanted to photograph the old art deco lift that used to be in The Savoy hotel before they "improved" it. It's a very dark museum so I was lucky to get anything at all. I tried using flash to get ...

Saw some beautiful vintage cars in Liverpool recently and had a lovely time talking to the owners. Did a little bit of research and found out that you could pick up a Bentley Flying B Car Mascot ornament online for £179.99, somehow I thought it...

The plan was to take photos of some bluebells in the garden...however, there were water droplets everywhere and in the end I preferred the image of the green leaves rather than the bluebells....

As I was writing the title to this blog post, I suddenly realised it has a double meaning. Unintentional, but nice. :-) I've had quite a few different cameras over the years, and sometimes more than one at a time. Before I went digital, the l...

Some days it is difficult to find the inspiration to think of another subject for a photograph. Some days life seems to get in the way and mood prevents creativity. Today was such a day. I did manage to get one image that I liked, not because it i...

I suppose it was my own fault for not phoning first but I acted on impulse and that was when it began to go wrong. I wanted to buy some axle stands to support the floor of my mobile home to protect it from the manic shaking of my washing machine. I f...

Some years ago, I took photos in and around an old, abandoned art deco building in the Netherlands - Radio Kootwijk. It used to be a radio station for international phone communications, but of course at some point it was redundant, and vacated. ...

It has been a busy day today going out to visit friends and then home for a visit from my daughters. My friend Frank has just returned from a cruise to the Canary Islands and it was our first opportunity to catch up. We managed less than an hour ...

I have been busy in the garden today mowing the lawn, pruning some neglected roses and making a screen from some ash poles and a roll of bamboo laths. I got the poles from a tree that needed lopping and nailed them together to make a frame. I put th...

Rather an unusual colour for a car....wonder if it's original?

Last week i did a wedding shoot for a friend something that i am not really happy doing ( i would much rather be on a beach at sunset ) it's only took our friends 16 years to get around to getting married and three kids later they thought now was a...

Four and half years !!! Has it really been that long?? Four and a half years since I last wrote to my blog on here - anyone miss me? ;) A lot can happen in four and half years. I wonder how many people read these blogs now? When I used to do i...

What a busy day, Thursday is bowls day and I went still feeling a bit down but things soon improved. My first bowl was spot on stealing the jack from my opponent who's bowl was touching the jack and his bowl never moved. We packed up at lunchtime a...

A detail from the Golden Hind moored over the river in Soutwark:

Just a scene I spotted on London Wall today:

These are the strawberries I bought last weekend - horrible things they were so I've left them to one side to get nice and fluffy. I'm glad I did too - they're so pretty close up! However I think it might be time to dump them - well maybe tom...

A friend uploaded some pics on facebook of an event he went to at the weekend and one of them had them playing with one of those A4 magnifying sheets. Just a snap of four/five chaps smiling for the camera but one of them had the sheet in front of hi...

A scene from outside the new shopping centre of One New Change, opposite St. Pauls.

The weather was far too nice to waste bumbling around town during my lunchbreak so instead I legged it up to the park for a swift walk round the two lakes. If I don't dawdle too much I can zoom round both lakes, take a few pics with the IR converted...

As many people know, I've been doing photography since about April 2011. My daughter just had several major surgery to make her some hip joints and I had to leave work to look after her while she was bed bound for the next 12months+. I was working ...

A couple for today. Inspired by an entry in Pete's blog. I set up an incense stick and took a few smoke shots. These two are the same image just processed differently. Larger version in the group and gallery

Another old blog entry from my Northscape Blogscape Pages The Before We Begin Guide to Street Photography Before we begin you will need some very specific equipment. 1. A Camera – ideally a Leica M8 or Olympus Pen. Bulky SLR users must be ...

We have a very hard working bunch on here, in the form of the Critique Team. The are responsible for reviewing all of the nominations for critique points, and I don't think they always get the full credit that they deserve. Once in a while, we (t...

I decided early in the new year to go to places I haven't been to in the UK. Yesterday was Spurn Head or Spurn Point as it's also know. A two hour drive and well worth it. It was quite an experience on the three mile approach driving on a bumpy brick...

I was so busy getting the drop of dew in focus this morning that I had absolutely no idea this chap was on the blade of grass too - and it's almost in focus too..... On a sad note I had to cave in and cut the grass which meant chopping the heads o...

So today was a double celebration - my birthday and the completion of my 365 project. In fact as I started on my birthday I think I might have actually done a 366 (must have messed up the numbering I think). It has been a really big challenge b...

So the weather turned today, visited freshwater West to be greeted by 65mph driving winds hurling sand, rain & sea water at me. I managed about 30minutes on the beach with Charlie whilst being deafened by the rain hammering against the hood of my ja...

Driftwood at a lovely sunny Barafundle Bay: