For a long time many of the shots that I initially took when I bought my first DSLR, sank from being images that I was relatively pleased with, to items which made me shudder. And for the very few that I have retained, they still do make me shudder. Violently. Many have sunk much lower than simpl...

Well if you followed my progress through Day 1 and the subsequent upload of my bottle of Baileys and two glasses, you will know that there was one other thing that I could also have got wrong, that I didn't; but apart from that every other photographic offence in the book was committed yesterday. :...

I've embarked upon my adventure into studio photography today. 'Still Life', I have been led to understand is the term used to refer to it. It seems a strange term to apply to something which is, admittedly, motionless; whilst at the same time having no semblance, or history, of ever having been a...

I did it. I cracked it. :D:D Not because I remembered. But because I just kept on banging away in CS4, during the day, until suddenly it worked. I've written it down and filed it this time. (although I may forget where I've put it) All because I'm too proud to go to Willie or Bren and have t...

It is going to be. I know it is. I can feel it. In fact, it started yesterday. It really gets to me. Makes me feel less. I know that there is a gap. But when the gap is working against me I get so annoyed and at the same time know that I can sink so easily into feeling sorry for myself. I fe...

Chewin' th' Cud. Since the New Year I've been thinking a lot about what I am. What I have. What I do. Such activity can be very beneficial, or virtually soul destroying. But, as Anne and possibly others will testify I'm sure, having had a stroke(s), there are some days when I feel a fraud bec...

2012 has, so far, largely .................... I've lost a lot of money due to a scan/scam on two of my cards, which fortunately the bank have seen fit to immediately replace into my account. But I'm still waiting for new cards to come through the post, due to the originals being compromised. I on...