Meet My Neighbours
Earlier this year I joined the Meet Your Neighbours (MYN) photography project and I’ve taken many MYN style images since then. But one of the features of the project that first attracted me to it was Niall Benvie’s use of composite panels to show a selection of the biodiversity in a particular region or location. Free from background distractions, these composites perfectly illustrate the variety of species in that region. I also like the way they show the sheer [...]
Don’t Move!
I well remember my mother with her Box Brownie camera, positioning me squinting into the sun and commanding me “Don’t move.” For you younger readers (under 50) a Box Brownie camera was about one step (maybe two) removed from a pinhole camera. Even with this instruction, blurred pictures were common. It is this “don’t move” factor together with this beetle, unimaginatively named the Red and Blue Beetle, which has inspired this post. Various people who are familiar with insects have [...]
Spring has Sprung
Some recent mild weather here in the UK has encouraged the life in my garden to wake from its winter stupor. As a keen macro photographer, I always enjoy spring but I’ve been particularly looking forward to it this year as a result of joining the Meet Your Neighbours (MYN) project. For a couple of months now I’ve been waiting for some insect life to appear to allow me to practice shooting in the MYN style. Finally, over the last [...]