We live not far from Warstone Lane Cemetery, one of Birmingham's more notable Victorian burial grounds. It features an impressive selection of gravestones and tombs, as well as - unusually for an English cemetery - catacombs. A few days ago we had a clear, frosty morning so I went for a walk along with

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I've already posted my Red Arrows pics from the Cosford Airshow, but I took a lot more than just that. As well as the flying display, there was a lot to see on the ground too ( Read more... )

I have literally hundreds of pictures from Cosford on Sunday, but I've started sorting through my pictures of the Red Arrows display first. The cloud base was rather low so the team flew the 'flat' display (no loops) but it was still as spectacular as ever.


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Pictures from the Ragley Hall Classic Car Show yesterday (click on photo to go to full album):


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( Another demanding evening for Mira (pictures) )

This weekend saw the first Jewellery Quarter Festival, organised to mark the transformation of what had been a rather ugly car park between the Rose Villa Tavern and the Big Peg building at the centre of JQ into Golden Square, a much nicer-looking pedestrian plaza and event space. In addition to three days of music, food and craft events at the new ( Read more... )

This post contains both photography geekery and nice photos of birds, so I feel free to jump to the latter if the former bores you ( Read more... )

Last Christmas I took advantage of a deal that local photo dealer and hire centre Calumet were doing for cheap hire to try out one of Canon's nicer high-end zoom lenses (the L-series 70-300 f/4-5.6. This year Calumet repeated the offer, although on slightly different terms; rather than giving 75% off any hire over the holiday period, they allowed a ( Read more... )

About six years ago I got to see the last flying Vulcan, XH558, shortly after she had returned to the air for the first time since 1993. I've been meaning to catch her again sometime, and so when I saw that there was a Cold War Tour of former V-Bomber bases planned for 25th September I was pleased to note that one of the sites was the former RAF ( Read more... )

Over Christmas I took advantage of a discount offer from Calumet Photographic to hire a very nice Canon 70-300 L-series lens to try out. I posted some comparison and test shots, including a few taken at Edgbaston Reservoir, not far from where we live. Since then I've been meaning to go through some of the others I took, which include rather a lot ( Read more... )