I couldn’t believe it when I saw the word Chilli on a packet of extra strong mints, but closer inspection proved my eyes weren’t deceiving me. Yes, as if extra strong mints weren’t hot enough, they’ve added red chilli to the mix. I had to try some. You get the usual enjoyable hot mint with […]
Peter Bargh
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A glorious day today, low winter sun streaming through the windows and through some internal patterned door glass. This lead to shadows and light shaped on the wall. I took a few photos and then started playing around with the shapes, by adjusting the angle of the door so the light rays lengthened. I also […]
Some days my head does feel like it’s spinning, but not today, so I made it spin! I’d always intended doing some spinography – where you set the camera on self timer and throw it into the air spinning as it falls down the shutter fires and you get a revolving shot. My first attempts […]
What a day…miserable most of the day at home weather wise but I saw a break and thought it would be worth going out to Derbyshire with the Lee Filters Big Stopper to get some cloud movement shots against rocks. How wrong I was. It was cold and extremely windy. On the edges so windy […]
I’ve had the gas mask for ages now. I bought it for model shoots, but I hadn’t realised they were dangerous due to asbestos content. So it’s been in a bag in the garage. I also bought a smoke machine over two years ago, also with the intention of doing atmospheric model shoots. So today […]
A long overdue overall of my TV aerial meant an old aerial was taken down and the house rewired to a new more powerful one. The signal on my TV is now wonderfully tuned…and the old aerial is ready for the skip. As it lays there I cannot help seeing an abstract art work in […]
Fruit can make good still life subject – either whole or, in this case, sliced and backlit. Certain fruit such as kiwi, lemon, lime, orange look great when lit from behind as the light shining through makes the slice look almost translucent with the seeds and textures picked up as interesting patterns and shapes. Cut […]
Katie, a friend of mine, made a surprise visit today and called with her new born Sophia. I took a few photos using my semi-retired Pentax K10D (the K20D has developed a fault). I used window light and got some big reflections in the eyes. This was one of my favourite.
I tend to realise I haven’t taken many days off somewhere around mid November, so this year I thought I’d spread them through the year. And my first day off was today to go on a walk with my brother and sister in law. We parked the car at the wall of the Dam Flask […]