veggiesosage Photo Blog

I've added a gallery of pics taken at various Christmas events around Nottingham etc for the festive season.   Just 14 pics there for now but I may add more later.   There until 12th night!

I've just added a new gallery for a selection of Black and White photographs.   There's only 12 there so far but this will increase and be chopped and changed as the mood takes me. There's no particular order to them. I usually process black and white photos using DxO Film Pack which is a rather wonderful piece of software that enables you to replicate vintage film types. I tend to use it mostly for for black and white but I do use it occasionally for colour.   Do take a look!   

I've just added a new gallery for photos of English cathedrals.   So far I've added four cathedrals with eight photos of each. I'll be adding more in the days to come.    Update 18/10 - now got eight cathedrals represented, possibly two more to add    Update 21/10 - those last two added. That's my lot until I visit any more    Update 22/10 - as is not unusual for me, I forgot another cathedral that I've viisited and photographed, pics up there now. I will no longer be promisng that that's my last one...

I've just added a new gallery for pictures of churches in Nottinghamshire. I'm still adding pics at five per church, with ten churches so far.   Nottinghamshire has something in the region of 300 churches so clearly only a fraction of them will be represented on my website but I am hoping to include churches from all parts of Nottinghamshire.   Edit - Now up to 21 churches and 105 pics which makes it by far the largest gallery on the site. That's my limit with pics I've already taken but I'll continue to add to it as and when I photograph any other Notts churches.    Further edit - actually no, could be three more, we'll see

I've just added a new gallery of photos of North Wales.   As a kid up to the age of around 10 we used to holiday in North Wales every year and I used to love it. Didn't visit again until the late 2010s when my sister rented a holiday cottage and invited me along. The nostalgia was strong...   Anyway it's quite heavy on the castles and features David Lloyd George and Clough Williams-Ellis quite a bit. Hope you like it.

I have long been fascinated with infrared (IR) photography and have made the occasional attempt at it in the past using a Cokin IR filter on my DSLR, with variable results depending on which model I was using at the time. In this post I'll be talking about some basic principles up to some issues to consider when buying kit.   Digital photography sensors are inherently able to detect wavelengths from ultraviolet (UV) way into IR, having a sensitivity range from about 250nm through to well over 1000nm.   The thing is, for conventional photography that's a pain in the back side because it causes all sorts of colour casts from the sensor picking up bits of light that our eyes can't. In order to get round this, manufacturers place a blocking filter (often referred to as a 'hot mirror' filter although heaven knows why) which cuts out the UV and IR light, leaving just the visible spectrum of around 300-700nm and joy of joys, your pics look normal.   Luckily for people who

I have finally taken the plunge to set up a  proper photography website and, as you've found your way here, you will already have seen it. I did have one using the Viewbug set-up but it really wasn't up to scratch and wasn't cheap so it had to go. I'm now using Lightrocket which seems pretty good.   It was a bit of a faff getting my domain name set up and transferred over as that was previously administered by Viewbug (meaning they could cream off a bit of extra cash in the process) but I'll count that as learning experience. The number of people/orgs involved just with a web domain name was really rather confusing for a beginner like me but we got there in the end.   And it seemed a good idea to have a blog to go with my new website to talk about my photography, mental health, life etc. I have long-term mental health issues and photography is my main 'self-therapy' for that. The flipside is that the photography is more difficult because of those issues.