Tag: wildlife
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Photographing Snowdonia – Glyder Fawr
Back in september I decided to go to north Wales for a long weekend in the last weeks of the years camping season. The weekend served as a trial by fire test run for a new tent because as seems to be usual for me the days chosen were at the tail end of a…
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TTArtisan 500mm F6.3 Review
Following on from my previous blog post about my experience using the samyang 500mm f8 lens that I had picked up for just £40, I developed the upgrade itch, I wanted more but I did not want to pay 20x more than I paid for the samyang.Enter the TTArtisan 500mm F6.3, a manual focus telephoto…
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Experimenting with a retro 500mm lens
Wildlife and birds are not my main areas of interest in photography however I happen to live within walking distance of an RSPB site, so on a nice evening or when I have nothing better to do I find myself taking a walk down with the camera to pass the time.My only telephoto lens is…
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The Puffins Are Back At Flamborough
Every year a colony of puffins returns to nest on the cliffs at Flamborough head on the Yorkshire coast. As a child i was taken to see them and still have vague memories of it however i had not been back in the nearly 2 decades since then. This year, as we are living up…
Attempting Art 