Writing tagged: ‘photography’

  • Snapping at swallows

    Snapping at swallows

    My dad’s dog and I both pursue swallows in our own way.

  • On mis­under­stand­ing Larkin

    On mis­under­stand­ing Larkin

    It wasn’t until many years after encountering a favourite passage of Larkin’s poetry that I realised I had fundamentally misunderstood his view of photography.

  • Reading in the Guggenheim

    Reading in the Guggenheim

    Although I tend not to dabble in street photography, every now and again an opportunity presents itself, and I feel compelled to reach for my camera.

  • Eclipse

    Eclipse

    Photographing this morning’s partial solar eclipse.

  • How to digitise photos from slides or negatives without a scanner

    How to digitise photos from slides or negatives without a scanner

    I digitised some 30-year-old Kodachrome slides this week. Some notes to remind myself what I did.

  • Bloodless grouse-shoot

    Bloodless grouse-shoot

    After 20 years walking on the Moor, I finally bag a brace of decent grouse photos.

  • 2014: a year in photos

    2014: a year in photos

    My fourth annual video slideshow review of the year.

  • Autumn alignments

    Autumn alignments

    Our kitchen might not be of World Heritage Site calibre just yet, but each autumn there comes a reminder that our house sits on the same spinning rock as Stonehenge and Newgrange.

  • The best camera

    The best camera

    My point-and-shoot camera turned out to be the best camera in the world yesterday.

  • Seeing purple

    Seeing purple

    The Moor is at peak-purple at this time of year, with the heather in full bloom.

  • 2013: a year in photos

    2013: a year in photos

    My third annual video slideshow review of the year.

  • Glorious melancholy

    Glorious melancholy

    My photos from an out-of-season weekend at the seaside.