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Water Drop

water drop10, originally uploaded by Bambi_72.

Got a new Macro lens the other day, a Tamron 90mm f2.8, which I am loving to bits at the moment.
Its amazing what you don’t see when its right in front of you until you stop time….

Stormy Weather

IMG_2920_1_2, originally uploaded by Bambi_72.

You can tell its summer here in the UK, lots of nice storm clouds, and rain, and wind, and rain. This is an HDR composite of 3 images, normal and +/- 1 stop.

I found this picture on a strange website, sound familiar to anyone?

It’s A Boy!

My wife gave birth to our son, Ewan on Wednesday afternoon after a long, long labour.
Both are now home safe and well, awesome is the only word to describe it…

Meerkats

IMG_1945, originally uploaded by Bambi_72.

Meerkats at Whipsnade Zoo.

Tulips

Tulips, originally uploaded by Bambi_72.

Spring is definitely here now. Sunshine, flowers, insects…..

Raining

IMG_1596, originally uploaded by Bambi_72.

I did say there would be more pictures…

Water drops on the washing line.

Gavs Eye

Eye, originally uploaded by Bambi_72.

I got some el-cheapo Chinese extension tubes from e-bay this week, bargain price of £7.99. I thought I would see what they could do with my 300mm zoom set to macro mode. I wasn’t expecting a very good image as they have no electrical contacts for the camera to control the aperture of the lens.
I applied a saturation filter to the image to get the black & white effect, masking out the coloured part of the eye. I am fairly pleased with the result, considering I was a bit drunk when I took the photo, on the full size image you can really see the texture on the back of the eyeball thru the pupil.

The Moon

The Moon, originally uploaded by Bambi_72.

I have recently upgraded my old Nikon compact camera to a Canon EOS 1000D DSLR, which I am VERY happy with. You can expect to see lots more photo’s posted here, probably too many.

This photo was taken using a 300mm Tamaron Zoom Lens mounted (only just) on a cheap tripod. The tripod is so lightweight that with the lens extended to 300mm it shakes like mad. I had to use the mirror lockup feature and a 10 second timer to avoid as much camera shake as possible. I had to tweak the image a bit in Camera Raw to bring out some detail. Just waiting for the weather to clear and my mate to bring his telescope round for some more astronomy photos.

Upgrade Woes

‘If it ain’t broke don’t fix it’ I really should remember this.
My host decided to tell me a new version of Wordpress was out and they were upgrading me, woohoo new toys, I thought. Anwyay it all appeared to go fine until I tried to click on some of my photographs and all the urls had broken. I had a hazy memory of this problem last time and it was something to do with permalinks and gallery re-writes.
It ended up that I had to delete my old .htaccess files, disable and re-enable a few plug-ins and away we go again.
Everything was working great until this morning, when I thought I’ll just check some settings on my gallery site, and I couldn’t access the admin pages, no idea why….
I reset my permalink structure in WP and deleted my gallery .htaccess file and let it rebuild one and everything returned to normal.

I have also added a syndicated news feed to my EVE-Online section giving you all the latest In-Game News and announcements.