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Upgrade, Upgrade

Posted in Yorkshire, coast, colour, computers, digital, equipment, north east england, scarborough, seascape, water, winter on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The harbour wall at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK The fun has started. I’ve started looking into getting a new computer for later this year. My old Dell is still going strong but it needs to be replaced with a  more modern machine. At the moment, i’m looking at either getting a Mac or sticking with [...]

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Winter Sky

Posted in Yorkshire, colour, digital, iPhone, north east england, rural, skyscape, winter on February 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

 A February winter sky II

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21st Century Choice

Posted in ISP, Yorkshire, business, colour, digital, internet, landscape, talktalk, winter on January 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Field boundary in winter – North Yorkshire, UK For the first time in years, i’m having to look at my broadband provider. After years of great service by my old ISP Tiscali, i’ve been forced into the hands of the UK’s second biggest internet service provider TalkTalk due to a takeover. So far it looks [...]

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Snowbound

Posted in Yorkshire, colour, digital, iPhone, landscape, photography, snow, winter on December 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Oh dear! It’s been a while since my last post on Darker Skies. I’ll be making up for the shortfall with a post, just a photo or maybe a photo and text, added everyday until the New Year starting on Christmas Day. The shot above was  taken on my iPhone and altered using a rather good photo [...]

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Soviet Winter

Posted in 6x6, black and white, film, landscape, medium format, monochrome, photography, photography book, soviet cameras, winter on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The view from my back garden. I took this photograph a couple of years ago using a Soviet Kiev 60 medium format camera. Although the camera is a basic, rather crude, type of camera, i’ve found that really enjoy using it. I think it’s the back to basics aproach to photography that the Kiev offers. No metering, no autofocus [...]

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