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18
Jan

Retrospective: The Three Hussars

Three Hussars mounted on horseback ready to take to the arena

I have decided to spend a little time going through the archives and sharing some shots from previous years. This is one of my favourites from 2009 and was a fantastic event to cover, I can still vividly recall the thundering of the hooves charging past and the smell of gunpowder. It was a visual feast and I came away with some pleasing shots which of course makes it even more worth the while. Read moreRead more

2
Apr

Red Kite, Windsor Great Park

Quite uncanny considering that my last post was about Red Kites, as on my way to work this morning I spotted a very familiar profile. A big bird circling fairly low over Windsor Great park, silhouetted against the bland sky, big wings and a forked tail gave it all away.

The Kite glided low, beating it’s wings, glided some more, cruising along just about oak tree height above the ground. It cheekily broke up a group of crows who then gave it some hassle in return, as if to say “who do you think you are?”.

It isn’t the first time I have seen a Red Kite close to Windsor and then I remembered that I was driving…….


[Posted with iBlogger from my iPod touch]


7
Dec

Week 49

I have decided that it may be fun to conglomerate my weekly photos into one weekly post with the exception of a few special events along the way. So with this in mind welcome to the first, Week 49! I do hope I am right in calculating that it’s the 49th week of the year, otherwise I shall feel like a right berk!

So lets see how this goes….

I tend to process my photos on a weekly basis, that is I download them on a day-by-day basis, forget about them unless they are those that need to be dealt with immediately and I find it more fun to process them at the end of the week, especially my photojournalistic stuff. I also find that looking at photos some time later helps me remove them from the event and time I took them, they gain a certain meaning and strength. Hard to explain but I am sure many photographers out there will nod in agreement.

In this post we have a mixture of Windsor, London and Winchester, a good old blend. I highly recommend visting both Winchester Cathedral and the South Bank of London right now. They both have something in common right now, German christmas markets!! They seem to get bigger year by year.