New year, new (photographic) beginnings
The entire calendar year of 2024 passed by without a single post added to this blog, so this is a short one to attempt a reset for 2025.Last year was not a good one for me photography-wise. I took...
Tagged ‘northumberland’
Spring at Howick with the original Fujifilm Finepix X100
In mid-May, on a family visit the the beautiful Howick Hall Gardens in Northumberland, I decided to see how the original Fujifilm X100 holds up in 2023.Released in February 2011, the Fujifilm Fine...
Autumn photography in Northumberland
An early morning start to catch sunrise at the Simonside Hills
Watching the tide, Cullercoats
There’s a famous quote in computer science from Phil Karlton: “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” The naming part, I find, transfers ju...
Avenue of trees, Thrunton Wood
Almost exactly 2 years ago I went for a walk in the woods, at Thrunton Wood in Northumberland.Having shared a single image from that short trip at the time, there are a few more that have slowly ...
A dusting of snow at the coast
A few snapshots from a 10-minute dash with the camera one morning
Sunrise at Druridge Bay with the DJI Mini 3 Pro
At the very start of January I managed two good photography days in a row, including finally getting to fly my new DJI Mini 3 Pro drone.On New Year’s Day, we made a family trip up to the stunningl...
Northumbrian green
In the interests of getting something published here after another multi-month absence, here’s a simple detail from a scouting trip in Northumberland back in 2017.I’ve previously shared two other ...
Week notes #11
As autumn has arrived, life has once again got in the way of photography recently and I’m absolutely desperate to get out with my camera. As we approach the tail-end of 2022 (already?!...
Week notes #10: picking up the camera
Last week I mentioned finding a little spark of inspiration sitting in my garden and simply looking up at the sky. It turns out that was the spark I needed to get out with my camera for the f...