A year has passed since I decided to make this blog ‘my own’, by paying for a domain name and to go without adverts. I know this because I have just had notice that my payment for the next year of it has just arrived (notice that it has been paid, not that it was … More Renewal
I logged in to my Twitter account this morning to find a lovely tweet from Lucy, super-talented creator behind the Silence Killed the Dinosaurs blog. This was a surprise because I normally get an email from Redbubble when I make a print sale and I hadn’t seen this one. Then I remembered that Lucy also … More Surprise
Hello, I thought I’d better post something new here, just to show I hadn’t abandoned being the photographer called Bear R Humphreys. Life is generally good but I have had a string of MS-based fatigue relapses over the new year season that have kept me from really getting enthusiastic about anything at all really. I … More Still here…
Well, well. November 7th since I last posted anything here. Excuses and explanations? Um… no, not really. It’s just part of the ebb and flow of life. At this time of year we are more likely to be battered, drenched or frozen by weather that makes strolling around or generally loitering with a camera, without … More Thursday Doors: St Ives, Cornwall
Unusually for here, no picture by me on this post. What? Oh, go on then, just a little one. Click it for a screenfull. What I actually came here to post today is this link to a blog by Elizabeth Dale at Cornish Bird Blog. Elizabeth’s blog is a great read all of the … More A Day in the Life of a…
The ICM technique (longer than technically correct shutter speeds, handheld and in daylight) normally has me moving the camera during the exposure but in this one the reeds were waving around in the breeze. So on a few shots I managed to get my camera movement ‘in synch’ with the reeds waving around, creating a … More Reeds
This could be an occasional niche within the niche that is Thursday Doors. So that’s a nice niche niche then. Sorry. Anyway, Cornwall, being almost an island on the south-western end of the British Isles mainland, is of course a seafaring place and a lot of the small villages grew up, both in population and … More Thursday Doors: Boat Houses
