If you read my previous post (Tripod Head Woes) you will know that until now, I have treated my tripod heads with little or no care. Basically the head remained screwed to the tripod and was exposed to all the same abuse that the tripod is subjected to. Not a good move when the head is more expensive than the tripod…
I love my Arch-Swiss D4 Tripod Head. Sure it is expensive, fairly heavy but it is wonderfully built; in fact as many reviews say it is built like a tank. However….
It has been a dull and wet January so far, not providing much incentive to get out with the camera. But Monday this week had a decent forecast with sunny intervals and showers, so decided to have a day out to Llanddwyn Island…
I have now decided on my favourite 12 photographs I took last year (2022) and decided on my overall favourite…
I wanted to go somewhere in my van for some photography, so looking at my list of places ear-marked as possible locations to visit, I decided to head to Spurn Point in Yorkshire for 3 days of photography…
Having a spare day, myself and a friend decided to have a trip to one of my favourite bits of “Celtic Rainforest” in Snowdonia. As usual for this area, it was dull and wet but it was still very enjoyable to walk around…
I do like to get up to the Lake District during Autumn to try and catch the colour, so this year I took my van to Borrowdale for a week and focused my photography around Grange at the bottom of Derwentwater…
Just back from a very enjoyable week in the Cairngorms photographing the autumn colour and what colour we had; it was the best autumn colour I have seen with golds and yellows almost burning your eyes out…
t is funny you travel hundreds and sometimes thousands of miles for your photography, but you don’t visit locations only 50 miles away. For years I have been “meaning to” photograph the Point of Ayr Lighthouse, more commonly known as the Talacre Lighthouse, but never got around to it…
Slowly I am getting over my run-in with COVID five weeks ago and my cough is now less and energy levels seem to be getting back up – but I am still not 100% fit…
