I’ve done some pretty damned stupid things in my time, but today I excelled myself. While I was testing a set of about a dozen old IDE & SATA disc drives, I only went & quick-formatted the USB drive containing…
Lesson Learned
As I’ve admitted in a couple of my previous posts, I’m prone to the odd mistake, some of which have led to interesting, if imperfect, images. But, not all accidents are happy ones. The camera I use the most is…
Every so often…
Just occasionally, I take a photo that gives me a disproportionate amount of satisfaction, and the image featured here is one such. I don’t claim to be a student of or expert in architecture, but I do like to gaze…
Another Happy Accident.
I decided to give my venerable Fuji HS50EXR bridge camera an airing on a day out to Penmon lighthouse on the Isle of Anglesey. The ruins of Penmon Priory are on the way to the lighthouse, and we stopped to…
A New Start
After putting up with incessant and seemingly insoluble Windows issues on my PC for the last year, I finally threw in the towel and replaced it. The old machine, an HP all-in-one PC, was fine when it worked, but the…
The Times They Are A’Changin’
The site’s name, “StreetSeen” is a sort of hangover from when it was established to feature the work of a collaborative group of North Wales street photographers. That group has long since ceased to function and I kept the site…
A Nice Feeling
We all have photographers with whose work we identify, or admire. You can usually spot their work without being told whose it is, and so it is with me. There’s one contemporary photographer who has a very individual approach to…
Workflow Choices
I shoot in RAW with all my cameras, except on the odd occasion when I snap with my Samsung A12 mobile phone. I typically use exposure compensation settings of up to -1 stop, occasionally more, to retain detail in skies,…
Algorithmics, maybe…
I’ve been using BlueSky for a little less than a year. In this time I’ve amassed (sic) around 248 followers which, for me, is quite a lot. I’ve been posting my own photos, reposting others’, commenting and “liking” like a…