Trying out my new Macro rig for 2025
Today I took a walk around an area called 'The water meadow', which is about 200 yards from my house in Stevenage, to try out my new Macro rig.
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First Street Photography session – June 2025
This post describes my experience trying out the technique of 'Shooting from the Hip' during Street Photography
Having fun Creating the Everything Vintage site
A post describing how I merged three WordPress sites into the new Everything Vintage site I released a couple of days ago.
My assessment of Oxygen Builder as a non-designer – Brilliant.
This post covers my assessment of the Oxygen Builder for WordPress plugin, and how it helped me as a non-designer update the design of this site.
How to add Simple Ajax to Advanced Custom Fields admin pages
This post explains the basics of adding Ajax to a backend Advanced Custom Fields form.
Fixing the P024 issue with the Nest Protect Smoke alarm
How I fixed the P024 error on our Nest Protect smoke alarm system.
Building a useful garden room extension.
This post follows on from a short series I wrote a few weeks ago and describes how I added a Tuin garden extension to our Log Cabin
Dunster House Garden room build – part 3
The final part of my short series describing how I put together a Dunster House garden room in our back garden
My Dunster House log cabin build – part 2
This post continues my experiences of assembling a Dunster House Log Cabin in our back garden.
Building my amazing Dunster House Log Cabin – Part 1
This post is the first part of a series describing my experiences of building a Dunster House log cabin in our back garden.
How to easily add a custom REST api to WordPress
This post covers the steps required to add a custom REST api to a wordpress site.
How to easily use Twig templates in your WordPress plugin
This post explains how to easily set up the Twig templating system in your custom WordPress plugins.
How to easily set up Vagrant to develop on WordPress
This post discusses the use of Vagrant and specifically VVV for setting up a WordPress development environment quickly
Using Composer to simplify WordPress dependencies
In this post I'm going to explain how to use the Composer dependency manager in your Wordpress plugins
A Useful Advanced Custom Fields Conditional Logic trick.
A useful trick to allow Advanced Custom Fields Conditional Logic to use data from outside the form data.
Simple and safe live code deploy using Git
A Post explaining a simple and safe git deployment technique for uploading code changes to a live WordPress site
Big Changes coming to the Photoblog
A post just updating any regular readers of this blog of big changes coming
Easy Ender 3 Pro assembly and first print
This post looks again at the Ender 3 Pro 3D printer and covers the assembly, some small issues I found and first print I produced.
Google Analytics plugin
A lesson in how to take a great free google analytics plugin and instantly destroy its credibility
Ender 3 pro 3d printer first look
This post is a departure from my normal photography related posts and instead takes an initial look at the Ender 3 pro 3D printer which I recently acquired.
Using PHP Traits in WordPress development
This article is going to discuss, in fairly high level terms, PHP Traits and how you can use them to help your wordpress development.
Exciting new vintage home movies site
This is a very short post just to publicise a new sister site to found-film which I've recently set up.
Docker compose to develop plugins – Part 2
In this, the second part of the series showing a docker compose based development environment for wordpress, we look the rest of the files in the system and the commands which are run to complete the install and configuration of the site.
Using Docker compose to develop plugins – Part 1
This article is the first in a series which will describe how to set up a development environment using docker compose to develop WordPress plugins.
Develop with WordPress
Welcome to Develop with Wordpress a resource which will help novice wordpress developers install, develop and maintain a WordPress site.
Site subscription changes
A short post explaining how you should re-subscribe if the email notification is important to you.
An update on the Found Film site
An update on the new found-film site that I'm setting up
Fuji X-T1 macro experiments
Over the last couple of weeks I've been taking some Fuji X-T1 macro pictures with a Tamron 90mm f/2.8 K mount macro lens and couple of add on extension tubes
Chatsworth house pictures
It was a few months ago that we visited Chatsworth in Derbyshire, but I've only just been through the images I took and decided that these Chatsworth house pictures are the ones I like best.
Eyam Hall favourite pictures
Some pictures taken at Eyam Hall in Derbyshire with a Pentax K-5 DLSR and a Z-1P 35mm SLR.
Fuji X-T1 macro sample pictures
Some sample pictures from the Fuji X-T1 camera with a Tamron 90mm Macro lens
Macro photography on film
I like taking macro photos but it has always been with digital photography. This post however covers macro photography on film.
Ricoh GXR VF-2, the missing piece in the puzzle
This post is going to look at the Ricoh GXR VF-2 viewfinder for the Ricoh GXR mirrorless camera.
Ricoh GXR A12 Mount first impressions
This post looks at the Ricoh GXR A12 sensor unit for the Ricoh GXR camera and tries it out with some classic lenses.
Ricoh GXR A12 50mm macro unit
A look at the Ricoh GXR A12 50mm macro lens and sensor unit for the Ricoh GXR camera.
New sensors for my Ricoh GXR camera
This post looks at some new sensor units I recently bought from China for my Ricoh GXR camera body.
How depth of field in photography works
An attempt to describe how depth of field (or depth of focus) in photography works.
Autumn in super wide-angle
I decided to try out my Tamron super wide angle on my Sony Nex 6 to get some autumn pictures.
Central London pictures c1980
35mm Colour slide images taken in central London in about 1980.
London Zoo – 35mm slides from 1980 (part 3)
This is the third and final post in a series of pictures I took in about 1980 at London Zoo.
Ricoh GXR S10 Lens Unit
A look at the Ricoh GXR S10 sensor / lens unit. This is a small sensor zoom lens which makes the GXR behave like the classic GX200
Ricoh GXR P10 initial shots / thoughts
A first look at the Ricoh GXR camera and P10 small sensor zoom lens unit.
