A lifetime of Mum

Llanishen, Cardiff, CF14 5NH

Cropping makes the image June 29, 2020

Sometimes after carefully staging your photograph, and cropping it following some of the standard rules, you then look at the image … … and think … “would that make two better images?” So what do you think? I think they might stand better as two images side-by-side rather than one. […]

Playing with a long lens June 21, 2020

Len, a U3A friend, has been imploring me to spend loads of cash on a new long lens. I’ve resisted! He’s taken some remarkable photos of birds using high ISO values – admittedly from distance – I wanted to play with using my 200mm lens at about 3-4m from the subject. Lockdown provided the opportunity […]

Flowers in Black and White June 14, 2020

A fair bit of controversy around this theme as some of the group felt that flowers were meant to be in colour, not black and white, well … here’s both!

Thought grazing …

Great new Plugin from Ordnance Survey for Mapping Trails September 20, 2020

I’ve been using a WordPress Plugin called OS OpenSpace Maps for quite a while that allows the mapping of trails (I use .gpx format to record the trails) onto an OS Map. This has worked well, but in updating a blog post I came across the information that the Ordnance Survey has produced a new […]

Keeping safe online September 10, 2020

The threats – real and perceived Luckily, there’s plenty of advice and guidance available – often slanted particularly towards our demographic (ie oldies) … Those two sites are particularly easy to follow and understand, but others are equally informative and targeted. Your bank probably has guidance which it publishes online and which is accessible to […]

Using a Password Manager and implementing Two Factor Authentication April 8, 2020

Introduction – passwords, passwords, passwords. Log in to your e-mail account. Log in to your bank account. Log in to Facebook, WhatsApp or twitter. Log in to your Amazon account, or any other retail site. Log in to your photo sharing service. Log in to Thought grazing, or any other membership based organisation eg U3A, Which? […]

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