Catching The Rain

Test your colour perception

One for the designers and photographers out there, and perhaps requiring just that little bit too much time and concentration to be called ‘fun’, but still worth a go…

Test your colour perception with the FM 100 Hue Test

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‘Bride’ arrested on wedding day - Times Online

Is this the sort of wedding photography I aspire to?

‘Bride’ arrested on wedding day - Times Online

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Multum In Parvo

Multum in parvo lawnmower

You’d have thought that a foray into Latin would mean I was about to say something profound, but in contrast Multum in Parvo, or “much in a small space”, is actually the name of the old lawnmower shown in the picture! It was made by Green’s in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and features on oldlawnmowerclub.co.uk (does what it says on the tin!) as a Mower Of The Month. This is an old lantern slide I picked up recently in a box of allsorts. I didn’t really think much of it at first, but I must confess on each look it becomes more captivating.

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Kew Magazine Photography exhibition

A new exhibition opened at Kew this week featuring photography from Kew Magazine.

Not one to brag (much) but they’ve chosen six photos of mine that have appeared in the Magazine over the last year or two.

You can see them all online on the Kew website, or just click on the thumbnails here. And should any take your fancy then they’re all available to purchase in sizes up to 30″ x 20″ and as greetings cards via photobox.co.uk

Bee on borage

Bee in magnolia flower

Canada geese in the daffodils at Kew

Malope trifida ‘Glacier fruits’

Spring crocus

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What’s That Picture?

Introducing www.WhatsThatPicture.com….

My personal interest in vintage photographs has inspired me to conceive a new website, called “What’s That Picture?”

In my own rather random collections I have been struck by how many photographs simply have no provenance, yet look as though someone, somewhere, should certainly know where or perhaps when they were taken, or what or who they are of.

This new site is intended as a community site where people can post their vintage photos and have other members and casual visitors pass comment and help to identify them. Of course this then gives the photo increased historical value.

Membership is free, and when you sign up you get your own image gallery to put things in (just 1MB of space for free membership - about ten typical images - but with the potential to upgrade to premium membership and get 50 times as much space).

You will find the site at www.whatsthatpicture.com

At this point I am just at the point of extending circulating details from a limited number of friends and contacts to a slightly wider but still focused group of people I think may be interested. But even so I’ve already got a dozen or more members, from as far afield as New Zealand, Canada and across the UK.

I’d be grateful to anyone who could take a quick look and make constructive comments.

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Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth

As a plant person I was a bit thrown by the name of one of Microsoft’s latest innovations: Photosynth. But as a photographer and web person I can’t wait to try it out. But then I discover it will only run on Windows XP SP2 or Vista. And what about their assertiion ” In our collections, you can access gigabytes of photos in seconds, view a scene from nearly any angle, find similar photos with a single click, and zoom in to make the smallest detail as big as your monitor”. Gigabytes in seconds eh? make the smallest details as big as your monitor? Why do I think the real thing isn’t quite going to live up to the hype? But I stand to be corrected.

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