Speedlights And Macro Photography

This week, something a little different ... a honey bee on a willow catkin.

On the screen, this image is magnified around 3 - 3.5 times life-size, assuming that your screen is about 96 pixels per inch.

Midsummer

It's the Summer Solstice today, and the rain has stopped here ... well, for a while at least, I hope.

This older picture, taken in 2006, looks west, across Marlow Gravel Pits, with the setting sun hidden behind a bank of cloud.

One Love ... and one fascination

There are two things that keep me coming back to photography: one is a simple love of people-photography.

The other is a fascination with selective focus, the use of controlled depth of field to capture some parts of a image in sharp focus and blur other parts to the point where they only hint at their contents.