Some photos from this past winter
I’ve been a National Trust member since last April (I joined more or less on the spur of the moment at Petworth, where I realised I had seen enough of the village and had...
Category: Photography
Photography update
Since I’ve not had much time to write this week, here are some pictures I took on recent trips to gardens in southern England (all National Trust properties): Cliveden, Buckinghamshire: a vast estate with...
Some of my recent photography
Besides blogging, amateur landscape photography is an interest of mine and I recently joined the National Trust, a charity which manages a large body of stately homes, gardens and places of natural beauty across...
Pictures from the Devil’s Punch Bowl
One of my favourite parts of being a truck driver used to be driving down to Portsmouth, as this involved driving through the Devil's Punch Bowl in west Surrey: the road used to skirt...
I’m a photographer, not a terrorist (or a ‘nonce’)
BBC Viewfinder: I'm a photographer… This is all about the problems some photographers have been having taking pictures in 'sensitive' locations, particularly in London; these places have also included shopping centres, many of them...
Pictures from Brighton and Lewes
Misty Sussex countryside, originally uploaded by Indigo Jo. Here are a few pictures I took on a day trip down to the South Coast yesterday. I had booked a day rail pass having read...
Photos from the South Downs
Birds in flocks, originally uploaded by Indigo Jo. The other day I had the use of the family car, so I decided to go down to the South Downs, a spectacular range of hills...
My photo’s in the London Schmap guide
I’ve just been informed that a photograph I took in Portobello Road in Notting Hill, west London, has been included in the Schmap London photo guide. You can find the guide here, and the...
The appeal of image manipulation software
The weekly British photographers' magazine Amateur Photographer has a feature called Backchat (sponsored by Nikon), in which readers are invited to contribute their "thoughts or views on photography". This week's is from one Graham...
Photoshop Ailments
Last month I got myself a digital camera with money I'd been given by relatives for my 30th birthday (£30 each from most of them, and I have plenty of aunts and uncles on...