A collection of 3 videos showing the beautiful surroundings and scenery on the Isle of Wight. We will introduce you to Freshwater Bay, Blackgang Chine, Bembridge Harbour as well as Whitecliff Bay, Culver Down, Sandown & Shanklin. Our final day, takes you through Priory Bay, Seaview, Appley Tower to the town of Ryde. Our final …
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Travel Photo Journal: Wittdün auf Amrum, Germany
I first visited Amrum in 1972 as a teenaged student and was immediately captivated by its unique nature. Since I was there working for the summer in the youth hostel, I got to know the island and its idiosyncrasies very well. I have since revisited a couple of times, most recently in 2003 when these …
Photo of the Day: Arrival at Dusk
This photograph was taken with my very first SLR camera, an East German built Praktica in 1974. I no longer have the original print so this comes from a scanned negative. Somehow the poor quality of reproduction adds to the haunting nature of this shot. The colours are almost certainly bear little relationship to what …
Goodbye Blackberry 8900, Hello Nokia N8 – Confessions of a techno-junkie brand-whore!
In case you haven’t yet figured it out, I am not like most people. The vast majority of us tend to stick to what is familiar and comfortable. Most major brands count on this single fact for much of their success. The recent ‘I am a PC!’ campaign by Microsoft as a response for the …
England Travelogue – Day 2 High Rocks – Tunbridge Wells
When we awoke on the second day of our England adventure, the only member of the household there to greet us was floppy, the bunny. As I mentioned in our previous post, both my brother and his wife work long hours and had left the house a couple of hours before Dorothy and I even …
The Rights and Wrongs of Digital Video – A crash course!
[ad#CJAdobeSpecOffTxt] Until very recently, I had all but given up on ever producing any really useful video photography. The main problem lay in the fact that unlike still photography, where you can immediately delete any shot that isn’t up to snuff, video requires intricate and time-consuming editing that is not easily accomplished without detailed knowledge …