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Richards Ramblings

A dark walk

The dark does strange things to you. To start with there is the strange itching sensation that rests in between your shoulders, the constant disquiet that something or someone is following you. The furtive noises made by animals as you walk by only heighten this feeling. You want to turn round to look but you know that “it” whatever “it” is will still be behind you. The torch on the phone lights a small circle in front, casting...
March 29, 2021 No Comments

Your World, My World

Your World. My World. Do you struggle to get how you see the world into your images? I do not mean turn up take a stunning image and walk away, the one in a thousand shot. I mean look at the world, frame it in your terms, convey a message that other people will want to look at, and, hopefully, buy or at least keep coming back for more of your images. Looking but not seeing. At this stage, it does not matter whether you take 30 mins getting...
March 22, 2021 No Comments

Eating Frogs

On Eating Frogs It’s late, the early hours of the morning. Once again, I cannot sleep. I am not sure if it just the erratic sleep pattern I have developed over the past year or the unnerving horror flick I have watched with the weird creepy woman killing everyone. Let’s go with the former. Let’s make a cup of tea, then I flip through a book called "Eat That Frog". This is a book that belonged to my son and left here when he left...
March 15, 2021 No Comments

Fog, The grey cloak

It’s a grey day. Not from clouds but from the fog that hangs lazily in the air. The first thing you notice is how quiet it is. It might be the fact its early Sunday morning or the muting effect of the fog. But the subdued silence pervades the area Sometimes you can see the individual drops of water as the float, hanging heavy in the air. Wafting and swirling after being caught by a slight breeze that drops as quickly as it rises. The fog...
March 8, 2021 No Comments

Questions but no answers for you

Some Questions The image is there in front of you. Right there and you are about to press the button immortalising your vision to the sensor or film. But wait have you? Are you getting the movement you want in the frame, be it none at all, intended or unintended? Basically, is the shutter speed right? Too slow and then the wind catches the subject, and it moves. Or, worse still the camera moves, and you get this inadvertent blur....
March 1, 2021 No Comments

Floods and the breeze

The first thing you feel is the breeze. This is not the gentle breeze of spring or summer but the colder, harsher breeze of midwinter. This does not gently stir the first shoots of trees and flowers but hits you square in the face. Bitter, stinging, and unforgiving. Flood It carries with it, rain! More rain onto an already saturated ground. Actually, that’s not strictly true. The ground is underwater as I speak. The flood plains are doing...
February 22, 2021 No Comments