This is another reblogged photo post for the benefit of new followers since 2015. Not much has changed around here in the last five years. 🙂
After the various posts about photos, both recently, and previously, I have finally managed to get some more onto the blog media library. They are not intended to be great examples of photography, far from it. This is not a photography blog, after all. They are in response to numerous requests to see Ollie out and about, and to give some idea of the area of Beetley Meadows, a place that features so regularly in my posts.
The photos were all taken with the new camera, trying it out on the first chance I got. For those of you interested in the technical details, they were shot on Aperture Priority, with f5.6 set on the lens itself. The film simulation mode was set before shooting, using Classic Chrome, a representation of Kodachrome 64, which was an old-style film, discontinued a few years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachrome
Various exposure compensation was used, mostly…
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My uncooperative computer isn’t allowing me to go back to the original post. Love the Ollie photo!
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I don’t know if this link will help, Jennie. 🙂
Best wishes, pete.
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Yes, it worked! Thanks, Pete.
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“Not much has changed around here in the last five years.” Lol Welcome, Pete! We are prisoners of our environment. Here its the same, but nothing had chanced during the last thirty years, so i remember. We only got a new structured WWII memorial, sadly in front of our house. ;-( Michael
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No changes is good for me, Michael. I am not a fan of change. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Come one, you are a youngster 😉
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WP is acting up on my end. Hope you see this. I was here.
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Saw you. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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enjoyed photos of Ollie :). lots of greens in your area, Pete. must be nice! 🙂
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It is very nice, but the green comes from all the rain. 🙂
Still, dry this week, they say.
Best wishes, Pete.
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As always, I do love your photos. I got a kick out of “the film simulation mode.” times are a chaning. Warmest regards, Theo
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Thanks, Theo . I tried out those modes back then, and eventually decided to leave it on ‘standard’ setting for most of the shots. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Enjoy the photos Pete!
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Thanks, John. Not much has changed, in five years. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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It’s nice to know certain places like Beetley don’t change.
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There has just been the one ‘new’ housing development, in 1985. And I live on that. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Very peaceful and bucolic 😀 Cheers, Jon.
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Not quite ‘The Haywain’, but not that far removed. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Norfolk always looks lovely in your photos, as does Ollie.
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Thanks, FR. Norfolk does still have that feel of the ‘old days’. If you know where to look. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Ollie has the right idea…..I do love duck….LOL chuq
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He still hasn’t caught one. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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But it is the thrill not the catch…LOL chuq
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What a beautiful place to live.
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Thanks, Lauren. We are lucky indeed. (Or chose well. 🙂 )
The photos were taken around 300 yards away from my front door.
Best wishes, Pete.
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