Due to a black and white challenge i took some shots before choosing which one to enter, thought i'd share some. My daughter Beth she's quick on the keyboard, slow to clean her room!!!

Photograph in natural form. Using Gimp software for a bit of manipulation/fun comments welcome.

How we take life for granted, at work saturday and my close work colleague got crushed, we did what we could before the emergency services arrived but dear ol Paul died at the scene, never have had a day like it or want to again, devestated is an understatement and the guilt i feel is incredible. ...

"what's it to be lads, a night out on the tiles or should we stay and watch TV"?

Woke up one more morning this week to find this in my back garden. apparently goes by the name April???????

Out and about in Godmanchester before the snow arrived Love on the lake The river Ouze

Took advantage of some winter weather while off from work.

Learning to use natural light, white background colour and a highkey setting. Comments appreciated.

Got up early today and was welcomed by a beautiful blue sky, I first noticed out of my living room window a nice view of the moon reluctant to dissappear . Decided then to take advantage of a day off and good weather, so taking my camera and my trusty old pushbike, set off for what turned ou...

Off subject here but hear me out. Had a hearing test at work the other day and the results were passable, apparently my hearing for my age is within acceptable parameters, but....(always a but with me) my right ear is well out of sync with the left, enough to be refered to my GP, but on the ...

Spent the day in Winchester (sunday) attended a service in Winchester cathedral took in some sights,sounds and a bit of shopping, in all a lovely day spent with my nearest and dearest. Should someone pop in and tell the owner about his sign? The great Hall.. Arthurs round table...

Sitting in the living room with my camera paying no attention to Strictly come dancing my girls were watching, decided to muck about with some settings and take some photos while moving the camera around, some times you get an unexpected shot you quite like, but in my case mostly not but here's a fe...

Working nights this week, sometimes I take my camera in, just to fool around with if I get some time (usually not), weather all good as I went in, but by 4am it started snowing, tried to poke my head out of the hangar doors to take a few shots of the snow falling, think I failed miserably with the l...

Went to St Ives (Cambs) today found the river Ouze using up all the flood planes

I have been researching more about different functions on my camera and with the help on here and a trip to the library for some reading matter on the subject i decided to put theory into practice. Using ISO set at 200 and F8.0 I went out to take some shots of passing cars and this is what I achi...