A macro session in the garden.

So, after reading my friend Marc’s post about macro tubes the other day, I thought I would have a quick play with my macro tubes in my garden on this lovely sunny day. I was using my Fujifilm X-T3 with 50-230mm lens (I found the 18-135mm too heavy). I set my shutter speed to 1/500Continue reading “A macro session in the garden.”

Whiteford Burrows National Nature Reserve and Llanrhidian Saltmarsh Visit (In New Recipe Vintage Chrome)

We visited Whiteford Burrows National Nature Reserve and Llanrhidian Saltmarsh, so what better excuse to try out a new recipe that I had been working on. I wanted a vintage feeling Chrome recipe, with all the feel of my recent Vintage Summer recipe. Rather than do a quick conversion from Provia based to Classic ChromeContinue reading “Whiteford Burrows National Nature Reserve and Llanrhidian Saltmarsh Visit (In New Recipe Vintage Chrome)”

Aberglasney Gardens Vintage Summer Collection

I enjoyed Aberglasney Gardens so much, I wanted to do a quick revisit to the photographs that I had taken and use Fujifilm X Raw Studio to convert the raw files into my classic MGA Vintage Summer recipe. What we have here are a selection of different photos in different crops and a very distinctContinue reading “Aberglasney Gardens Vintage Summer Collection”

Aberglasney Gardens Photo Shoot

A visit to the quaint and extraordinary beautiful Aberglasney Gardens, near Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire on a warm, but mostly dry Tuesday morning led me to take many photographs of flowers, architecture, insects and more. Aberglasney was made famous by the BBC television series “A Garden Lost in Time” which followed its restoration. Today it isContinue reading “Aberglasney Gardens Photo Shoot”