RJT-Photography

On Friday, the Prime Minster dropped in for Breakfast at Square 1 in Ilminster. I designed the web site and did all the photography used on it and I was delighted to hear that it was the web site which attracted the Prime Minister to come and visit.  The site is built using DokuWiki which allows the manager there to easily maintain all the information on the site.

For more information see The Chard and Ilminster News and Square 1’s Web Site

I have finally sent our holiday book for printing by Blurb, you can see the results below.

The only real drawback with a cruise is you don’t really have time to get a good flavour of a place, but we enjoyed ourselves any way.

Photograph of the Day at Photography Cafe is always a lovely surprise, and this image of a Camellia, was even more of one.  This was a repost after some suggestions from another member to improve the conversion from colour to B&W.  Taken at Haldon Grange near Exeter, I loved the shape and softness of the Petals,  but in colour it just seemed like another “flower” shot,  with a soft conversion to a split toned B&W I felt really improved it.

Here is what the reviewer “Big Al” had to say

I’m claiming some POTD glory this morning with my editing suggestions, but Jane created the general concept. The brown monochrome tone carries an air of decay about it and leads us to think of the camellia (with its naturally ragged petals) as dying. So that is likely to be your first instinctive impression. Then the thoughts change as you take in the delicate folds that are captured by the retention of detail in the whites. The nicely off-centre flower is well counterbalanced with the subtle leaf.

I finally got around to adding one of my slide shows to YouTube, it’s just a simple slide show of one of the sites we visited in Tunisia.