Favourite pictures – The hyacinth
This hyacinth plant was growing in the Museum Gardens in York and I found it as I was walking along the river bank when we…
Favourite pictures – The Sun in York
As we were walking along the river bank in the City of York recently, I took this picture of the road and people. It was…
Favourite pictures – my Daughter Emma
This is a picture of my daughter Emma which I took during a recent trip to York Minster. I had been taking some pictures of…
Favourite pictures – York museum gardens
This was one of those shots where I couldn’t actually see the composition when I took the picture, but it turned out ok anyway. We…
Favourite pictures – The wall
While we were at Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire recently I had the 16-50mm standard lens fitted to my Sony Nex 6 and I tried taking…
Favourite Pictures – Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire
This is a spring time picture of Beningbrough Hall National Trust property just outside York. It was taken with a Sony Nex 6 camera fitted…
National railway museum York
During a recent trip to York we visited the National Railway Museum which is conveniently situated next to a Park and Ride bus stop in…
Adding colour to a black and white photo in Photoshop
As I said in a post a few weeks ago I’ve been scanning and repairing some pictures which my Father took over the last 50…
Photoshop effects – removing all colour except one
I’ve seen an effect before which isolates a single colour in a picture – removing every colour other than the chosen one. In my experimentation…
Photoshop filters – radial blur 2nd attempt
Yesterday I posted a picture which used the Photoshop radial blur filter to create an image which had quite a dramatic look and was noticeably…
Photoshop filters – radial blur
I’ve been playing with photoshop quite a lot lately because I’ve been scanning a lot of photos which my Dad took in the 1950s to…