This web site is set up on a Raspberry Pi running Linux.  From here there are links to sets of galleries produced by a free PHP script (Simple File PHP Gallery). Most are family and holiday images.

These are the full resolution images taken of Auntie Christines Garden now she is getting it organised to her liking. They are at full resolution so that you can zoom in and see extra detail if you wish.

Pictures taken in the local park of Annabelle and Katie on their visit for my birthday.

A selection of the images taken over the summer of 2023, starting in the cutting with Brimstone butterfly eggs and caterpillars, a cheeky robin and Southern Marsh orchids. Then other orchids at a different WWT site. On to the Elizabethan Gardens at Kenilworth Castle. More local canal wildlife and the before/after of a mornings sickleing in the cutting. Then more local flora/fauna at a WWT site. Down to Cirencester and images from a six mile walk. Into the Cotswolds with Christine to Hidote Manor and Kiftsgate gardens (the entrances are opposite each other). A rose given to Val by Dave Cowley. Down to Devon via Knightshayes where we helped with Peter's field and played with his train. Visits to a couple of NT houses and walks on Dartmoor and round Totnes. Norfolk followed with the West Runton Mammoth, Cromer, Blickling Hall, Fellbrig Hall and finally a cobweb in the garden from Val.

A complete set of the images taken by Val on our latest trip to Australia.

Pictures from the meet with Jonny and family at Ryton Pools Country Park. There are two playgrounds there. The girls found the small one (in both senses) very quickly. A short walk then took them to a rather larger playground (again, in both senses) where they seemed to rather enjoy themselves.

A trawl through the rest of my father's slides has shown up a number of family images covering many years. One was of myself and my sister at Culloden taken when we both teenagers (so many years ago!) and Gran Monk's house, "Elmley", in Rugeley. The rest are of our family at a picnic, at Llangorse lake when we camped with the scouts, at my father's 60th birthday (1981) and when my parents took our boys up to Scotland, staying at Barns Ness in 1983. The boys were still quite small!

We met up with Jonathan and family at Packwood House to exchange Xmas presents. The house was decorated for Xmas so we had a walk through. The weather was very dull and the house not particularly well lit apart from the decorations, so I experimented with high ISO settings. I was hoping that the new NoNoiseAI in ON1 Photo RAW would be able to get something useful out of them. The first few indoors were taken at ISO 12800, but I had to go up to ISO 32000 for the rest. They are not great images but are as good as many compact camera pictures I have seen - still a bit noisy.

I have been experimenting more with the compact camera I self-converted to Infra Red. Seeing an image at the camera club has led me to experiment with something called "False Colour". Most sites which discuss this use a simple channel swap (swapping just the red and blue channel values) but one site gave a version of this which also alters the green channel. I find these changes more interesting, though they do need filters that are not commonly used in IR filter sets for best effect. The article is at https://photographylife.com/how-to-process-infrared-photographs. The first experiment with this new idea used a variable IR filter that ranges from 530nm to 760nm. These are the images taken using that range in the garden and show the most interesting images are taken around 600nm. A visit to Leamington Spa provided an opportunity to experiment again but to concentrate at around 600nm. The later images are from this outing with the most interesting imeges taken at a little over 600nm and with -1 stop of exposure. A final image shows the filter set I have plus the variable version (which seems to work like a polarizer).

Val's cousin Peter, down in Devon, has built a steam lococmotive from a kit of parts. It has taken many months and is now coming to the end of the testing stage, so will be painted over this winter (2021-2). We had rides on a carriage behind the loco, images of which are here.

My sister and I have inherited a collection of slides from our father, taken over many years and many places. We have whittled them down to a smaller selection, many taken between 1954 and 1957 whilst we were living in Singapore. The first one is of the bungalow we lived in on RAF Seletar. The full selection is here. The full size scans (as Jpegs) are available here, but they just appear as a list, so you will have to note the numbers of those you wish to download. Then use a right click and select "Save Link As..." to download that image.

For our latest wedding aniversary we spent some time in Leamington Spa. These shots were taken in the Jephson Gardens there.

A visit to meet our grand-daughters produced these shots of bees and flowers.

Our younger son bought us a "peacock" LED light for the garden. These two images show it at dusk.

A trip down to Malvern with the caravan showed up some problems with the van, so was cut short. The images taken - during a heat wave - are here.

Katie is now six. These images were taken on a brief visit to Solihull for that event.

I have finally got round to scanning the most interesting of the slides we inherited from Reg Rose. Small version are on this page. Larger versions available on request.

The latest meet up with Jonny and family was at Charlecote Park for the Peter Rabbit Trail.

The group working in Ashlawn Cutting have had to separate out more than normal in the current Covid crisis. Some of the work is vital for the cutting, particularly the grass cutting and raking. As this is nearing its end, other jobs are being tackled. I have been pleaching small trees (laying them an their sides but keeping them alive) to add some 2-4 metre scrub which the cutting is lacking, according to the local bird ringers. Some of the group are good hedgelayers and I have been allowed to tackle my first "proper" hedgelaying, which is a step up from pleaching. The images here show the results, mine being the small section going up the side of the cutting.

The latest meet up with Jonny and family was at Charlecote Park for the Pumpkin Trail.

A stroll round part of Draycote Water, a local reservoir, produced these shots. First off we found a collection of Shaggy Inkcap fungi. Though most were near their end of life, a couple were fresh. The Water itself is a stopping off place for migrant birds, as well as having a resident population. The birds are 3 little grebe, little egrets and a pied wagtail. The camera used was a Sony Alpha 77, which gives the option of a 1.4x or 2x digital zoom. Couple this with the APS-C sensor and at full magnification the image size reduces to just 6Mp, but the 300mm zoom lens I used is effectively a 900mm lens. Only works for jpeg images, but the quality is acceptable, I think, considering they were hand-held at ISO 200.

This set of pages show the results of some experimentation with Focus Stacking.

This is the full set of images I have taken out in Australia for the wedding of Phil and Jess, and these are the official images.

This page points to sets of images used in competitions during the 2019-20 season at Dunchurch Photographic Society.

On my birthday we had a day out at Kenilworth Castle, an English Heritage property, with Jonathan and family. It was the girls first trip to a "real" castle, which they enjoyed despite the changeable weather. The event for the day was "Knights and Princesses" put on for half-term. The first two images are IR (again) and the rest from the exploration and event.

A set of images taken on a day trip to Melbourne and Calke Abbey in the Peak District.

A trip to Canon's Ashby, a local National Trust property, is documented here. On the same trip I continued experimenting in infrared.

I have done a home-brew conversion of an old compact to take Infra Red (IR) images. This gallery has the first few experiments with that camera.

I took some pictures of our nieces son Oliver when the family gathered to celebrate his second birthday.

As an experiment, I have created a page that contains an Audio Visual show about Ashlawn Cutting, a Warwickshire Wildlife Trust Reserve. I am one of the team who maintain this reserve.

A selection of the pictures taken at the Golden Wedding celebration of Margaret and Christopher Hackney can be found here.

Images taken on an excursion to Brueton Park after both girls had recovered from chicken pox are here. Katie had the Nursery Bear, Frankie, with her for the weekend so pictures of him were needed out and about the town.

This page points to sets of images used in competitions during the 2018-19 season at Dunchurch Photographic Society.

The better images taken on Annabelle's fifth birthday are here.

Some shots of the girls after a Fathers Day lunch.

Pictures from Katie's third birthday are here. There are quite a lot of them!

Galleries from our Pembrokeshire trip are here, organised by days.

This gallery contains many of the images taken on a visit to the National Trust property Baddesley Clinton with my younger son and family. The two little girls thoroughly enjoyed the new Sculpture Trail leading to the new Adventure Playground.

Some 2017 galleries are here, mainly of our golden wedding.

The 2016 Scotland trip, when we stopped at Ayr, Stirling, Braemar and Richmond is here.

Some older galleries from 2016 are here.