A recent selection of wandering through the beginnings of Autumn. It's always a favourite time of year to be out with a camera. The change from Summer to Autumn is invariably a gentle one with the colours of the trees and woodland changing around us. Definitely my favourite season to be out with the camera.
Autumn is on the way and it’s a great time to head out into the woods and see the colours changing as the autumn season kicks in. Travelling light with just the Fujifilm X100v and a tripod is a great way to record what’s going on. The weather resistance of the X100v certainly comes into … Continue reading A morning walk
I‘ve been using a square filter kit made by NISI for a while now and although I’ve been very pleased with the performance of them it’s not the lightest or smallest package to carry around. Searching around on the internet I found the K&F Magnetic Filter System at a reasonable cost so I ordered one … Continue reading Thoughts on the K&F Magnetic Filter System
For all the other gear I have that's probably more suited to woodland and landscape photography I love to get out into the woods with my Leica M10-P and a couple of lenses. It feels a much more cathartic experience shooting with a Leica M over the Nikon Z6 I have. It's a slower process, … Continue reading Loving life with a 90mm
Camera: Leica M10-P | Lens: Minolta Rokkor-C 90mm F4 3 shot panoramic stitched in Lightroom.
Camera: Leica M10-P | Lens: Minolta Rokkor-C 90mm F4
Camera: Leica M10-P | Lens: Leica Summicron 50mm f2 ASPH
Sometimes it all gets a bit too much and at the moment my seemingly endless quest to find the right camera gear has been giving me a rather painful bout of sensory overload. I’ll be honest, it’s even starting to piss me off. I have two very different systems I use for the majority of … Continue reading Craving Simplicity
Camera: Leica M10-P | Lens: Leica Summicron 50mm f2 ASPH
Camera: Leica M10-P | Lens: Leica Summicron 50mm f2 ASPH As if any woodland or nature photographer didn't know, the bluebell season is in full swing... Got to make the most of them while you can!
A couple of weeks back, we had a little bit of mist in my part of the world along with some pretty cold conditions. I wandered a small woodland area for a couple of hours or so along with a common I'd been eyeing up, which proved to be rather beautiful with the sun and … Continue reading Gentle Colour
Hanging the Leica M10-P over the shoulder along with the small but excellent Leica Summicron C 40mm f2 makes for a very compact, easy to use set up. What better way to spend a sunny Sunday morning than wandering along the local canal towpaths looking for compositions with a flat white coffee as mid walk … Continue reading Sunday Strolling
I've been shooting and editing to black and white almost exclusively since before Christmas and since the beginning of the New Year I've been shooting with a monochrome view through the live view of my camera. I convert those images to a black and white preset when importing the files in to Lightroom, in order … Continue reading Starting to Feel The Black and White Pull
Camera: Leica M10-P | Lens: Leica Summicron 35mm f2 ASPH
Camera: Leica M10-P | Lens: TT Artisans 28mm f5.6
Camera: Leica M10-P | Lens: Leica Summicron 35mm f2 ASPH
A quick Boxing Day wander to blow the cobwebs away! Conditions in the UK over the past couple of days have been wonderful (as far as us woodland photographers go), with plenty of low cloud and mist around. It's lovely to get out in such conditions and stay away from the madding crowds as well!
Camera: Leica M10-P | Lens: Leica Summicron 35mm f2 ASPH
Camera: Leica M10-P | Lens: Leica Summicron 35mm ASPH
After a little over two years of owning my Leica M10-P, the thought process is do I need (well I want) to move it on. It's a beautiful camera, I enjoy using it and the images it produces are wonderful, but for the 90% of what I shoot (or want to shoot), it's a compromise. … Continue reading Compromise – At what cost?
Camera: Leica M10-P | Lens: Leica Summicron 35mm
Camera: Nikon Z6 Lens: Nikon 24-70 F4 S
Camera: Nikon Z6 Lens: Nikon 24-70 F4 S Filter: NiSi CPL
Woodland Photography with a Ricoh GR3, you cannot be serious?! Well, I thought it would be fun to try and to be honest, I'm quite happy with the results from a little point and shoot wander! The Ricoh GR3 is a street photographers camera - or so they say. The GR series have become a … Continue reading Woodland With a Ricoh GR3
The best season in the year for woodland enthusiasts like me! Camera: Leica M10-P | Lens: Leica Summicron 35mm f2
Autumn is almost upon us and most woodland/landscape photographers are waiting for those golden tones that only autumn can offer. That and mist/fog! Camera: Leica M10-P | Lens: Leica Summicron 50mm f2
Camera: Nikon Z6 Lens: Nikon 14-30 F4 S Filter: NiSi CPL It's been quite the summer and to be honest my inspiration for being out and about in the heat and sun of the summer has waned somewhat... Give me a nice cold autumnal day with a bit of atmosphere. Here's to the autumn/winter months and all who care for … Continue reading When the Sun Shines
We had a few days holiday once things started to open up a little, and chose to head to the Scottish Highlands, to get away from it as much as we could. Armed with the Nikon Z6 and my Leica M10-P, we had a few days enjoying the weather and the location. Basing ourselves close … Continue reading Scotland Adventures
Having recently taken delivery of a Nikon Z6 along with a Z 24-70 F4s and 14-30mm F4s lens, I was keen to get out and really see if I had made the right choice! Armed with the Z6, both lenses and a CPL, I decided on a bit of a road trip to the waterfalls … Continue reading Waterfalls at Blaen Y Glyn
Camera: Nikon Z6 Lens: Nikon 14-30 F4 S Filter:NiSi CPL
Camera: Nikon Z6 Lens: Nikon 24-70 F4 S Filter:NiSi CPL
I’ve been toying with the idea of switching up my ‘landscape’ kit for a little while now. Having been using the Fuji X-H1 almost exclusively with the 16-55mm f2.8 lens, I’ve always felt the RAW files I got from Fuji had something missing. It’s been that way with all of the Fuji’s I’ve shot with … Continue reading New Toys & Happy Days
Camera: Leica M10-P | Lens: Leica Summicron 35mm f2
Camera: Fujifilm X-Pro1 Lens: Fujifilm XF55-200mm f3.5-4.8
Camera: Fujifilm X-Pro1 Lens: Fujifilm XF35mm f2
Camera: Fujifilm X-H1 Lens: Fujifilm XF16-55mm f2.8
Camera: Leica M10-P | Lens: Leica Summicron 50mm f2
Camera: Leica M10-P | Lens: Leica Summicron 50mm f2
The best part of wanting to shoot more ‘outdoor' photography is that where I live we have plenty of woodland around us and it’s the perfect way to get out and about - and to lose yourself for an hour or two.
We’re pretty fortunate living where we do as we have plenty of woodland areas nearby offering some real nice scenery.
Analog Dave 