It is that time of year when it is actually getting hard to take a photo a day, because of general Christmas busy-ness with school plays to be watched and parties to drive young children too. However, an early christmas present to myself, or a slightly belated birthday gift, came today  – a little diffuser […]

Well not quite snow, more a bust bean bag’s balls. Well done Lotka for tolerating this!

It’s Felix’s turn to be a tiger. What a handsome cat.

Today I spent the morning at Barnaby’s school taking photographs for the soon-to-be-launched, newly designed website,  and tried to avoid taking too many of my own son! It was hard when he and his friends followed me around outside at breaktime….

Felix practising his presentation skills, having helped make the pancakes tonight. Watch out Jamie Oliver!

We had to buy a Christmas Tree today, because apparently Barnaby had told his teacher we would get one this weekend and “It is wrong to lie” (nice tactic), so off to the local supplier today. The boys decided to get all wrapped up to – luckily no health and safety visitor was spied.

With freshly cut hair, the boys decided that Lotka needed a hair treatment too, and so decided to give her a wash. She is fresh and sleek now.

The boys and a friend in the local vets! A shopping evening in the village, where the kids OD’d on sweets and excitement in general. They also had the first meeting with father Christmas of the year. OOPs, realised I posted two for Friday – this is what comes of not posting each day and […]

Well Didcot Power Station has finally made it into a post. I was again trying out hyperfocal focal points, and failing miserably, so I also had a practice with a polarising filter.

Whilst trying to get my head around hyperfocal distance, I stopped in some woods to practice. Not at all impressed with those results, but did quite like this moss thingy I was focussing on in the foreground.