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So good it's almost suspect...
Posted Aug 27, 2012
This is why I love the internet.
I've just managed to acquire 32gb Sandisk memory and two (TWO!!) spare batteries for my camera, also the velcro straps* and the usb cable for my Ipod (my original one died) all for less than £30 with free shipping on Ebay.
The equivalent memory in Jessops was £90. London Camera Exchange wasn't even open.
And we wonder why the high street is dying.
*the velcro straps in case you were wondering are so that I can attach the intervalometer to the leg of my tripod and not have it dangling about the place when I'm taken long exposures or time-lapses.
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On Being 'A Good Guy'...
Posted Jun 21, 2012
So, how's this for a good news story?
One of the cars I was looking at viewing just got sold. 
However the owner, took the time just now to call me up to tell me, said how much he'd enjoyed our conversations and that I was an sincere and nice man, and since he has a circle of friends who all have fords and who some are looking to sell, he'll pass my details around and try and get my name at the top of the list if any of them are open to recommendations.
Thank you Patrick! 
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Stormy Seas at Southwold Pier
Posted Jun 8, 2012
As my week off rounds of to a close, I set off to the coast with the intent of doing some self portraits on golden sands (my online profiles are in serious need of updating); maybe some long exposures of gentle waves breaking over rocks, to hang up around the flat.
This was not to be.
I arrived at Southwold, on the Suffolk Coast, with the sea crashing against the pier in spectacular, pounding, waves, the weather growing steadily worse and just out to sea a large front was visible. In the centre the rain was coming down as an obscuring mist. I'd timed my arrival with the hope of seeing the tide come in, but behind the tide was a storm accelerating the sea forward up the beach!
The wind went from blustery to buffeting on a whim, rain fell cold and hard like nails, and the clouds rolled into toward the coast promising worse to come.
Today, as it turned out, was a good day to be out with the camera!
Despite my best efforts on so many of the photos I got spray and blobs of water on the lens!! *sob* , so I've rescued what I can.
Also, I'd gone with ambitions of hunting down the converging lines to attract the eye. However with the sea rapidly advancing up the beach I had abandon this plan and make a swift retreat for the safety of the sea wall - and so from then on was confined to taking my photos from various man-made vantage points - and not low to the ground where I could get some nice angles, seeing as low to the ground was now under-water.
I hadn't done any HDR and my long exposures were minorly successful but nothing special - so as I sat diddling about in photoshop wondering what I could do to make the images sing - I decided to try something different and apply textures to the photos: I began liking the results and figured it works by complementing the rather chaotic , and non-uniform nature of the waves by giving each image a different sense of character or story.
But do tell me what you think.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardhealy450d/sets/72157630020986559/
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What I did with my weekend: Photos from The Peak District.
Posted Jun 5, 2012
For the bank Holiday weekend I assiduously ignored all matters pertaining to monarchy and departed Cambridge to return back to see my family and be in my 'spiritual home' of The Peak District and Derbyshire.
Have wanted to practice photographing long exposures of flowing water for ages - to get a feel for doing it right.
This has proven impossible in Cambridge; a flat-land where the water dies not flow - it ambles ... sedately, like an arthritic sloth on a Wednesday afternoon coming back from the pub.
So day one after getting back I headed out into the hills beyond Chesterfield with my camera and tripod to the town of Grindleford, The Longshaw Estate, to a little hewn-valley I know, where the water does flow downhill and in spectacular fashion!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardhealy450d/sets/72157630060959980/
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Photos from Da Vinci: Anatomist
Posted Jun 2, 2012
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardhealy450d/sets/72157630017433148/
"On the 6th of June 2012 - I travelled to London, Buckingham Palace, The Mall. To the Royal Galleries to see the newly opened "Da Vinci: Anatomist" exhibit.
This was truly awesome, and luckily they let me take my camera inside....
It's taken me a while to process and upload these - but here they are at last - enjoy!"
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