Looking up to the sky at night

I'd obtained a 400mm f5.6 Sigma lens. Not great, just ok. The thing is its a Sony A fit. For those of you that know, I generally use Nikon or occasionally Canon. Anyhoo I picked up a Sony A350 for less than I spend on lunch each week, just to try out this lens.

I decided on photographing the Moon, as my mum had mentioned one evening how lovely it looked. You know what, it is a lovely thing.

Ideally I'd have gone out to somewhere there isn't too much ambient light such as street lights and traffic, but I'm only messing around with a cheap camera and a 'free' lens. So the garden was just fine.

I had to wait till the Moon rose over the rooftops, it's surprising how fast the moon appears to travel when you're wanting to take a photo of it.

I'd been going out every night this week watching it, waiting for the sun to set, offering me nice contrast (the lens suffers with poor contrast as well).

So last night I think I got some images that are 'not bad'.

Let me know what you think. 

Weekend in Kent

A visit to Kent was required as I'll be shooting a wedding at Lympne Castle in June. So a recce was the intent of the visit.

Yes, I did manage a little chill time and managed to record a couple of iPhone videos. The theme is 'tunnel'. The first is 'Nature made because of man' , followed by a 'Man made because of nature'.

Hope you enjoy them.

on the way to Lympne Castle

Blackwell tunnel

The pesky state of procrastination

It may seem I've not had anything to say or that I haven't allowed myself the time to post anything. The truth is, there's so many avenues of social media to try to keep up with, it becomes an issue about making less noise. So I decided to create two pages on Facebook, one for my photography and related business, the other as a 'stuff' place. Both ran in conjunction with my personal FB page.

Here's the list of social media outlets I currently have;
dnlkphotography (FB) - http://on.fb.me/1QpVzrA
Stuff (FB) - http://on.fb.me/1QpVDr7
G+ (Google+) - http://bit.ly/1QpVIer
Blogger - http://bit.ly/1QpVO5U
Pinterest - http://bit.ly/1QpVUuc

They all hinge around my photography. I've attempted the approach of 'being out there' with posts that people may find interesting and therefore wish to know a little bit more about me, as in what do I actually do. Hopefully a few of you have found your way to me via one of those. If not, it doesn't matter, you're here now.

I'm planning to have a post here this weekend, so please stay tuned.