This blog has been very quiet over the last couple of years, but I’m hoping to make it more active now Spring is almost here.
These were my first photos of 2023 – a return to my favourite place for a local photo walk: along the river embankment in Bedford.
All photographs taken with my Canon EOS 60D with an 18-135 USM lens, and processed using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.
Just a Saturday afternoon walk around the village with my camera…
We paid a very brief visit to Tintagel on the way back from Boscastle. It was too late to visit the castle, but we did see the Old Post Office – a 14th-century stone house, built to the plan of a medieval manor house, now owned by the National Trust. Photos taken with my Panasonic TZ-70 and processed in Adobe Lightroom.
Some photos from the Cornish fishing port of Mevagissey, taken in September. All photos taken with my Panasonic TZ-70 and processed in Adobe Lightroom.
Some photos from Boscastle in September – all taken with my Panasonic TZ-70 and processed with Adobe Lightroom. Boscastle – now fully rebuilt after the flash flood that devastated the village in 2004 – is one of our favourite places to visit.
2021 has been another poor year for my photography with Covid seriously restricting my journeys out, but we did manage to get away to Cornwall for a week in September. Here are some photographs from East Looe – all taken with my Panasonic TZ-70 and processed in Adobe Lightroom.
In an effort to motivate myself back into photography as lockdown slowly relaxes, I bought myself a Canon EF-S 18-135 lens (USM version with image stabilisation). This will hopefully be my new ‘walk-around’ lens as the range of focal lengths covers most of what I normally shoot.
The following photos were taken on my first outing with it – just a walk around the village.
Covid has pretty much put a stop to my photography this year as I have hardly left the house since March. Fortunately, I’ve been able to work from home and we’ve managed to keep the Hitchin Camera Club meetings going on-line using Google Meet.
Here are a few of the photographs that I have managed to take over the course of 2020:
Another day out in Cornwall – the Bodmin & Wenford Railway is a heritage steam railway that has been running since the mid-1980s. There was just the one steam train running on the day we visited – the 4612, which was built by the GWR in 1942 and retired from active service in 1965. After restoration in 2001, it was moved to Bodmin.
Engine 5552 – built in 1928 and withdrawn from service in 1960. It has been at Bodmin since 2003 and is currently undergoing a major overhaul.
Catching up on some more photos from our recent trip to Cornwall – Paradise Park in Hayle is a wildlife sanctuary with over 1000 birds, plus a few small mammals such as red pandas and otters.
Photographing some of them was a bit challenging due to the fact that most of the birds are behind wire fencing, but here are a few that I did manage to get.
Ground Hornbill
Owls
Spreo Starling
Golden Eagle
Humboldt’s Penguins
Rainbow Lorikeets
Visitors are allowed into the aviary and can feed them with cups of “nectar”.
Carribean Flamingo
My favourite photograph of the day – the flamingo tucked its head back and stayed still long enough for me to zoom in and take this.
Gareth Kitchener Photography 