Celebration fireworks

For Guy Fawkes’ day, a couple of photos from Saturday night’s excellent display at Worcester racecourse.

A non-church mouse

This little fellow was almost invisible under a big plant at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens today.

Holiday in Berlin

I’ve just finished sorting my photos from last week in Berlin, and posted a selection of my favourites to Flickr.

The album of the rest is here.

Cats and cows and other animals

I spent some time on a small farm yesterday.

Here are some of the more interesting photos on Flickr.

Getting more serious about photography

This summer’s challenge has been to explore how to do fully manual exposures instead of using automated or semi=automated modes on the camera. Unfortunately, not having had a summer has rather got in the way of that plan.

But today I found some time to work on last Friday’s photos from a brief trip to Clevedon before the rain set in.

The ones I like the most are here.

Botanical gardens: some photos for the weekend

I’ve been trying to get more into photography this year. Today I spent a good few hours with a friend at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. The lesson for the day was learning to control the exposure manually and give up the security blanket of the cameras semi-automatic modes.

I’ve still got a fair bit of editing work today, but here are a few of the ones I particularly enjoyed taking.