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I had a morning out taking photos around town on Saturday and have put 5 of the half way decent ones in this album.

Here’s an example

Medium Format no longer has a place in my house 🙁 I bought my Bronica system about a year ago as a “learning system” I wanted a system that would force me to slow down and think about what I was doing when taking a photograph and as my ETRSi was completely manual and had no integrated metering it really did the trick. I went from 100 shots an hour on my digital system to as little as 6 per hour! Handheld metering was great fun and made me look at the whole process of taking a photograph in a different way – spot vs reflected vs incident – what to do

After a while though I came to two conclusions 1) It had served it’s learning purpose and 2) whilst a 6×45 negative was nice it wasn’t a big enough a step away from 35mm for me. If I get back into a larger than 35mm format in the future I think it’ll be 6×7, 6×9 or even large format 5×4. I want to blown away when looking at a velvia trannie on a light-box and 6×45 just wasn’t doing it……..

So what’s happened to the Bronnie? it’s been traded in on my first Canon “L” series lens, a 70-200mm F4 and a 1.4x Teleconverter. I pick them up on Saturday and might even get some time to do some test shots over the weekend I had a couple of rolls of film leftover and have sent them to Lor to use in her Holga Have fun Lor!

Just added about 20 images to the image database. They are just copied from my old photography pages but if you haven’t seen them before feel free. Now that it’s all working I’ll add the rest over the weekend and hopefully get around to customising the interface

Just a quick note to let you know that all the images of Max are now in my new photo database. In due course all the images on my photography pages will be transferred as well. 

People who register in the database (sorry but it’s additional to the weblog registration) will be able to download the images and set up their own favourites section but to view, comment etc you don’t need to. It’s a bit boring to look at at the moment but I’ll be customising it at some stage.

Today at lunchtime I went to a park about 10 minutes from work. I thought that it might look nice in the snow and I’d heard there were some deer wandering around. Little did I know that I would end up in the middle of a herd! There were about 30 of them of various breeds and I could get to within about 20 feet of them. As I didn’t have a jacket with me I didn’t stay long but managed to get a few snaps – no long lens and mediocre shots but what an experience.

There are two more on the following link….

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I have my second photography club comp tomorrow.  The theme and format is totally open so it should be very interesting. I like these comps as I get to see other peoples work and get my own critiqued by the professional that they pay to be judge for the night.

As I have mentioned previously I’m not very happy with what I have submitted. I have lost a bit of my photographic eye lately and so will just be making up the numbers I expect. We’ll see……

Another thing I am going to do is write a critique of each of my shots before the comp. It will be interesting to see if the faults that I pick up are the same as the pros………

I’ll let y’all know how I get on on Wednesday.

Up at 05:30, a 350 mile, 7? hour round trip and I’m back at home only to discover that I got another POTD at www.digitalphotocontest.com The original looks a lot better than the one on the web, I think they compress the photos a bit more than I would have thought…….. This picture was about 15 minutes work in Photoshop. I was playing around one day and the idea popped into my head – I only entered it as a bit of a joke