I recently purchased a set of macro extension tubes for my camera. I’ve been interested in macro photography for a while but I’ve never had a macro lens so I thought I’d give it a try!
I shot all of these images on my 5D MKII with my 50mm 1.4 lens at its maximum aperture. They [...]

This is one of my favourite landscapes I’ve ever taken. I love the contrast between the out of focus field and the sharp trees and sky, I always enjoy working with wide apertures and shallow depths of field to create effects like this.

More from my back garden, this guy was just chilling out on this Lavendar flower. He sat there for a while so I got a couple of good shots despite the super wide aperture.

I’ve always loved simple shots of forest floor textures so when I noticed this shot with layers of leaves I saw an awesome opportunity for a texture shot . Pretty simple processing on this one, bringing out the highlights and darkening the shadows without affecting the midtone contrast.

I’ve been useless at posting to the photoblog this past month. I’m gonna try and make up for it with lots of great posts this next month! Shot of Lavendar taken in my back garden at the weekend.

More from Shuttleworth: just a couple of simple shots of flowers here. They had some really nice flowers in the Swiss Garden, I decided to grab a couple of quick shots. It would seem that I was having a purple day!

More from Shuttleworth: these guys are awesome! The Peacock in the top shot was actually pretty scary! He kept stomping his feet and running around. I think he was a bit scared of the people around him. I gave him plenty of distance, took a couple of shots and got out of his way! The [...]

More from Shuttleworth. I was on the phone to “the G-man” when these ducklings walked right up to my feet! I managed to get a couple of decent shots whilst giving Gurdev a walkthrough on using Adobe Lightroom. I still can’t believe how overly confident these little guys were. I really didn’t expect them to [...]

More hot weather activities on Sunday. We went to Shuttleworth and looked around the Swiss Gardens there. 5 posts this week coming from Shuttleworth! Well worth a visit!

Here’s another shot that I took a little while ago but only just got around to uploading! I saw this tree whilst out shooting other landscape and nature shots and thought it looked quite eerie. The high contrast black and white conversion brings out the creepiness!