Author Archives: Lande

My photographs are records of moments in time that I have captured in our ever moving and changing world. Some are momentous while others are just whimsical shots of things that have caught my eye. Although I use digital cameras, I work as though I were using film; I rarely use post production other than adjusting light, colour and framing. I pride myself on being able to fully capture the moment at the point of shooting. Enjoy.

Brrrrrrr!

It has been pretty cold of late especially overnight when everything freezes over. I took this picture of some frozen leaves in the park a few days ago. I am posting it because it is so similar in colour to the photograph I posted earlier. The key difference is the temperature – it was a [...]

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Home…

I took this picture in Florida a few years ago. Sadly I never did get to find out who lived down this hole. I really wanted to tell the little creature that its home was rather nice. Perhaps one day he will visit this site and find out that I meant no harm when I [...]

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Look into my eyes

This is a picture of my friend’s cat, Princess which I took a while ago. I love her eyes in this picture and thought I would share it with you. Enjoy.

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A flash of colour

This is a picture I took recently at St. Olav’s church in London. I am rather pleased with this one as it turned out exactly as I wanted it to. Special thanks to my friend who initially spotted the picture opportunity and also Mother Nature who provided me with the most excellent lighting. After I [...]

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Take 2! Of late, I have felt a bit lacking in “colour” so I went out in search of colour and came up with a cheeky photo which you can see here. Just in case it was too cheeky, I also posted this cloud today. I am not saying which I prefer!

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A couple of years ago, I did some work for an online business magazine. The editor will often frown when he read an article one of his journalist had written, commenting that it “had no colour”. “Colour” I came to understand was the pizzazz that transformed an article from a dull and boring report into [...]

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Wake up and smell the coffee

This is a picture I took a few years ago. The smell of coffee would slowly fill the air, getting stronger as the percolator brewed. Soon the gentle sound of a teaspoon stirring in a cup of coffee would make way for the newscaster’s voice on the television, the clatter of the letterbox as the [...]

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A point of view

I went to an exhibition at Olympia in Kensington on Sunday. I admired greatly the ironwork structure of the Olympia venue itself. Opened in 1886, this is a beautiful piece of engineering and craftsmanship, truly standing the test of time. They really don’t make them like they used to and I do often wonder how [...]

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The ladybirds

I came across these ladybirds enjoying the autumn sun on a wooden post. I watched for a while as they practiced stretching out their wings and then tucking them in again. It reminded me of automated convertible cars lowering and raising their roofs. They were all still there an hour or so later when I [...]

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Another day

I started off the day with that ever recurring thought about life and the meaning of life. I did not come up with any new answers and settled for my usual conclusion that “life is what you make it”. I took this photo of a message left on a wall at Daytona Beach, Florida a [...]

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