Category: Photography
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He got Cold Feet on The Farmy.
Yesterday we had glorious sunshine and not a breath of wind. This morning sitting in my high up studio, the sky still black all I can hear is wind. One of the challenges I have set myself, for these pages, was that all the images, every day, were to be from the farmy, our gardens…
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How to Clean Grungy dirt out of Old Bottles
Though of course I mean no disrespect to Grunge the long ago Fashion choice. In fact My fashion choice for a very short period. I thought we needed a wee rest after all the excitement and Our John spent some time yesterday going through his bottle collection and cleaning a few of them with this…
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Let’s go Walkabout on the Farmy. Ignore those men with guns!
So now for something completely different. We will go back to the post I was collating when we were so RUDELY interrupted by men with guns. Yesterday in the morning there was a snow man with a TopKnot sleeping on the roof of the barn! This is one of Houdini’s chickens, growing up. The snow is…
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How to take beautiful photographs for your blog with an ordinary camera
I am an ordinary photographer, with an ordinary old Nikon. Nothing special. No fancy pancy. People say to me “How do you do that? What kind of camera do you have?” So I thought I would jot down a few of the things I have learnt about taking photographs. I don’t want to sound arrogant.…
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When The Cat Won’t Play: on the Farmy
The whole farmy has turned camera shy all of a sudden. Yesterday afternoon TonTon and I took the camera on our rounds, but the sun fell in behind massive clouds, the light dropped and no-one would co-operate. TonTon hoped to see a decent Play Cat-Fight , but even Thing Two was totally lacking in…
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