Gendarmenmarkt Christmas Market

Gendarmenmarkt, Charlottenstraße, 10117 Berlin, Germany

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 …

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? […]

What gender is a computer? March 29, 2020

I’d like to thank a U3A member for sharing this with me and suggesting others might like to see it – not only as a light-hearted but also as a challengingly true piece of computer-related education (?) It could be it’s an old video, and you’ve seen it before, but at least it’s not a […]

Microsoft re-enters the browser war! March 17, 2020

After Netscape Navigator was eclipsed by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the browser of choice for many – mainly because it was hard-wired into Windows initially – the world of internet browsers has seen first the rise of Firefox from the Mozilla Foundation as an alternative open source option and then the succession to Google’s Chrome […]

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