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Happy Christmas!
As it’s less than a couple of weeks till Xmas Day I thought I would take the opportunity to wish you all a “Merry Christmas and a Phabulously Photographic New Year”. It’s been an interesting year for me, with lots of in-person and Zoom talks and well-received Macro workshops. I’ve already got talk bookings for 2026! This is a macro bokeh shot of an Xmas tree bauble. Not only is there foreground bokeh but there’s also wider background bokeh. It’s like differential focus, but it’s all actually out of focus! Our neighbour over the road has a log-burning stove. One quite windy day it was smoking quite a lot, and…
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Always looking for odd collections
When I’m out and about I’m always looking for incongruous or odd collections of things, or things that make a visual joke. It does slow down a walk though, but that can be useful sometimes. One recent useful time was this Sicilian answer to IKEA flat-pack furniture. I saw it in the beautiful town of Modica, near a viewpoint. It was very hot, so slowing down was a good idea. I loved the use of the food waste “umido” bin to act as a support for the planks. I reckon it’s made a two-seat bench, so why not just sit on the food bin and the chair instead? At a…