On Saturday I will be leaving the dreary weather behind me.

I’ll be bound for Sydney, via Beijing, and I don’t intend to return until May!  Hurrah! So I thought this would be a good excuse to do one of those photo-a-day diary things…

The plan is to take one photo each day that relates to what I’m doing and then, perhaps every week, upload them to the blog (and to Flickr) with a brief description of what’s going on in each picture.  It’s like a travel journal that’s both easier to maintain and more fun to look at – everyone wins.

The next post should be from the other side of the world.

Peace out n00bs

In September I spent a week in the Lake District.

I took hundreds of photos, but what with there being more pressing (profitable) images to process I still haven’t managed to sort them all out…  But here’s one of my favourites, which is also kinda different to the norm-

Canon 50D + EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM lens @ 10mm, f/3.5, 64s, ISO1600

It’s the Milky Way.  Yes, the sky really was that dark – it was amazing.  So I thought I’d try to capture it, which I managed to do on around about the tenth try in the middle of the night freezing my ass off in a field waiting for the exposure to tick over. Read more »

Just a quickie.

A couple of months ago I took a few photos using my Speedlite off-camera and firing it with a basic sync cord.  I thought I’d share the results

This is my partner in crime Alice and I, in a ruined coastal bath house (where else?)-

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