Weekly Photo Challenge: Wrong

  What’s wrong with this image. Not so much, but it is overexposed and wouldn’t be easy to correct. It’s slightly blurred as well but I’m an optimist and I believe that no… Read More →

Silhouette

  Beautiful evening tonight with a sunset that was worth capturing. Taken on the beach at Prestatyn, these groyne markers are almost completely submerged at high tide. Technical Note. Pentax K-30, with Pentax… Read More →

Sunset

I’m still working on getting that HDR image from my Pentax K-30. This is a bracket of 3 processed with Machinery HDR Effects. Slowly but surely I’m getting used to the camera.

Pentax K-30 & Sigma 150-500mm Lens

I was at Conwy RSPB Reserve today carrying out some tests of my new Pentax K-30 with the big zoom lens. The weather wasn’t great with a threat of rain and I could… Read More →

Weekly Photo Challenge: Growth

  For this weeks challenge I thought I’d show you a picture of the moon that I took a while back. Now you might be thinking “What has the moon got to do… Read More →

Olympic Photographs, Not On Here

  The rules and conditions for using a camera at the Olympic games are pretty draconian, for instance; Section 19.6.3 states that: “Images, video and sound recordings of the Games taken by a… Read More →

All In A Row

  A while back I had the good fortune to visit and tour around parts of Western Australia. One of the places I stayed at was right in the heart of the Yanchep… Read More →

HDR and the Pentax K30

My Set Up I finally got around to trying out the HDR features of the Pentax K30. For this test I used JPEG as the file format, set the ISO to 100 and… Read More →

Birnbeck Pier

  Birnbeck Pier is a pier in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, England. It is situated on the Bristol Channel approximately 18 miles (29 km) south-west of Bristol. It links the mainland with Birnbeck Island,… Read More →

The Low Lighthouse

The Low lighthouseis one of three lighthouses in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England and the only one which is still active. It is a Grade II listed building. Burnham-on-Sea is notable for its beach and… Read More →

I’m Back…

New Theme I’ve decided to restart HDR Images by Mike Hardisty for several reasons; my renewed interest in HDR Photography finding a great little plugin for Windows Live Writer, called Flickr4Writer a new… Read More →

Weekly Photo Challenge: Purple

  Wikipedia defines Purple as a range of hues of colour occurring between red and blue. In additive light combinations it occurs by mixing the primary colours red and blue in varying proportions.… Read More →