I woke up this morning with an email from iStockphoto. They had accepted this picture I took around the farm just before Christmas. I am especially pleased this one got accepted as it wasn't planned. I was wandering around and saw these two guys walking their dog. I thought the fog really set it off nicely and it looked wintery. It is probably the first photo that I have taken on the spur of the moments that actually captured the scene the way I wanted. You can see it at iStock here.

I have a few more to upload from that day, but I was interested to see if this one would be accepted. Sometimes the ones I think are really good don't pass the quality control.

Tags: iStockPhoto

Happy New Year to all my reader

I managed to get one more shoot in before the end of the year. It was frosty and very foggy on the farm and I wanted to try and capture that. I think I did that. All these were taken with my macro lens. During my stroll around I found the bulls wintering in the barn. I really like those, but the foggy landscapes are my favourite.

I have really enjoyed my photography this year. I don't think I have done too bad for a newbie. Hopefully some even better stuff next year.

Tags: Frost, Winter, Farm Animals

My wife and I decided we would go to Cromer to take some photos while we had a week off. The night before Tami said she wanted me to have my Christmas present so I could use it on the shoot. It was a Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM. I now have lenses that cover both ends of the spectrum. The macro at one end and the Canon EF70-300mm f4.5-5.6 DO IS USM at the other. This is the first macro lens I have ever had and it is superb. You can see some of the macro photos I took at Cromer here, and some practise shots here.

I really like this one. As you can see it has a very short depth of field and gives you lovely bokeh. In fact with this lens it is almost impossible not get it. I still love taking sports shots, but now I like to get up close and really capture the finer details of this world. Below is the the third picture I took that day and it was almost the best, but it just shows what you can do with this lens.

I am really looking forward to a heavy frost or some due so I can go out and find some cob webs. If you are after a macro lens I can't recommend this one highly enough. The only thing I had to get used to was the fact I had to move. I have never had a lens that is a fixed length.

Tags: Lenses, Canon, Christmas Present

At last I have got around to redesigning my picture galleries. They were getting a bit of a pain to upload each time I updated them. Rapidweaver made me upload all of them each time. I have now changed the design to break them up a bit and I think the index also looks a lot better.

Feel free to take a look and leave any comments. Hope you like the new design.

Tags: Redesign