Alice Holt in Classic Chrome

We paid a visit to Alice Holt Forest in Surrey last weekend to take the kids around The Stick Man Trail (see here). It proved to be an interesting test of my March challenge of only using in-camera processing.

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Finding Stick Man & Gruffalo

The kids are huge fans of the books of Julia Donaldson, particularly The Gruffalo and Stick Man, so they were very excited when we took them to the Stick Man Trail at Alice Holt Forest in Surrey this past weekend.

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Hayling Billy

Last week I made a quick trip to the northern tip of Hayling Island to scout out the Hayling Billy Trail, a walk that follows in the footsteps of the long gone steam train that once carried passengers between the island and mainland.

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Emsworth in February: Walk About Town

February has been a month of greyness and gloom both in weather and mood and in some ways my images reflect that.

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Challenged to Blur

The final week of my month in 35mm is based around the Week 8 Photo Challenge of foreground and background blur, which fits the large aperture lens well.

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Morning Flare and Classic Chrome

I found myself back in Horsham Park this week as the dramatic low winter sun began warming up the frozen landscape.

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Langstone Harbour

One of the benefits of this blog is we are now getting out and seeing a lot more local sights; places around the corner that we didn’t even know existed. One such place is Langstone Harbour, just a few minutes away from Emsworth.

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