Hello
last sunday before Christmas, so plenty time to do the shopping.meanwhile I've created another ebook
have a look and let me know what you think
have a great Christmas
cheers
d
Sunday, 21 December 2008
Monday, 15 December 2008
Calendar 2009
welcome to December, aye, Ok its the 15th, doesn't time fly.
Talking about time flying I've uploaded my 2009
Calendar to my web site, see link above.
Pictures are there some of the text is there, just some additional words to add.
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Virus' colds and serious illness'
well what a time that was, my PC crashed with a virus, I got a virus, well OK it was only a chesty cold/ cough but I felt like crap. But not as bad as many people who are much worse off. I'm thinking of you.
Anyway back to this photo lark, I don't have any photos of any Larks, maybe come the spring I'll get some, if I can get up early enough.
But Im just about to publish my 2009 calendar, i've done a couple as proofs, aparantly some copies of the 2008 calendar had some wrong dates in December 2008, if you've got one, let me know and I'll send you a replacement.
anyway heres my photo for (from) August
Well I like it, if you don't move onto September.
cheers
d
Anyway back to this photo lark, I don't have any photos of any Larks, maybe come the spring I'll get some, if I can get up early enough.
But Im just about to publish my 2009 calendar, i've done a couple as proofs, aparantly some copies of the 2008 calendar had some wrong dates in December 2008, if you've got one, let me know and I'll send you a replacement.
anyway heres my photo for (from) August
Well I like it, if you don't move onto September.
cheers
d
Friday, 22 August 2008
Monday, 11 August 2008
Random murmurings
Artificial Intelligence is OK.
If you want to make toast.
To control an interstellar spaceship takes a human.
Well not all of one.
Just the brain.
More later>>>>>>>
Anyway this week is mostly going to be about exhausts and portraits.
You never know I might post a photo of an exhaust. But by the end of the week I should have a couple of new portraits to post.
Here’s hoping for nice smiley bairns, and parents who don’t get in the way – you know who you are.
Anyway, have a nice week.
Cheers
d
If you want to make toast.
To control an interstellar spaceship takes a human.
Well not all of one.
Just the brain.
More later>>>>>>>
Anyway this week is mostly going to be about exhausts and portraits.
You never know I might post a photo of an exhaust. But by the end of the week I should have a couple of new portraits to post.
Here’s hoping for nice smiley bairns, and parents who don’t get in the way – you know who you are.
Anyway, have a nice week.
Cheers
d
Saturday, 9 August 2008
Friday, 8 August 2008
photobucket
Hi
I've been playing about with Photobucket to use for slide shows.
have a look
If this one works, then I need to sort the code so a link doens't take you away from my blog.
Unless it takes you to my web site that is.
cheers
d
I've been playing about with Photobucket to use for slide shows.
have a look
If this one works, then I need to sort the code so a link doens't take you away from my blog.
Unless it takes you to my web site that is.
cheers
d
Thursday, 7 August 2008
strike while the iron's hot
Hi Again
wow, two posts in one day, need to stop being this good.
OK I've updated my photobucket site, we'll really I've created a new one, the old one is still there, but its full of rubbish.
I've added a couple of images from a couple of recent weddings, just to see how they look, if it works I'll add other weddings and such
cheers
d
wow, two posts in one day, need to stop being this good.
OK I've updated my photobucket site, we'll really I've created a new one, the old one is still there, but its full of rubbish.
I've added a couple of images from a couple of recent weddings, just to see how they look, if it works I'll add other weddings and such
cheers
d
after training & web updates
Hi
We'll I've managed to do a bit of 'tweaking' to my blog, you might notice a favicon, at the top of the browser/ in the address line?
Let me know if you can't see it, should look something like:
Except that the one you see should be animated. And it wont be quite as large.
I've made some slight changes to text font and borders, but there is more I want to do, I'll get there.
I've also updated my DWF home page, but unless your a pro wedding photographer you wont see it, sorry.
If you can't see it, trust me its really special.
If you can see it, its only a work in progress, it will get better!
thats it for today, I'll have to go now, I want to go and buy a new camera,
look out for some good photos, coming soon.
Which reminds me, I need to sort out my photobucket. This web stuff never ends......
Oh aye the training went quite well, I'll say that until I get the feedback report, then I'll tell you the details.
cheers
d
We'll I've managed to do a bit of 'tweaking' to my blog, you might notice a favicon, at the top of the browser/ in the address line?
Let me know if you can't see it, should look something like:
Except that the one you see should be animated. And it wont be quite as large.
I've made some slight changes to text font and borders, but there is more I want to do, I'll get there.
I've also updated my DWF home page, but unless your a pro wedding photographer you wont see it, sorry.
If you can't see it, trust me its really special.
If you can see it, its only a work in progress, it will get better!
thats it for today, I'll have to go now, I want to go and buy a new camera,
look out for some good photos, coming soon.
Which reminds me, I need to sort out my photobucket. This web stuff never ends......
Oh aye the training went quite well, I'll say that until I get the feedback report, then I'll tell you the details.
cheers
d
Tuesday, 5 August 2008
macro training
Hi
Tomorrow I get to do a bit of training.
Its a wee while since I did any training, longer since I did training on photography. As a trainer I mean (or whatever there called these days)
I'm facilitating (is that what there called?) a course on macro photography. Using a Nikon D300, a Nikor 105mm 2.8 VR lens and a R1C1 wireless speedlight.
I must say I'm really impressed with the D300. I'm a Canon user, but the quality of the D300 could make me change my mind. But I'm a bit less impressed with the lens, I know its a macro (Nikon calls it a micro - ha) and for macro work its good, but for 'normal' work its not so good.
I'm used to using a 24-70mm (Sigma) with my Canon gear, and it does an excellent job as a general lens and a good job (or better - I've never really pushed it - yet) as a macro lens. I think for the best part of £500 I'd want a bit more.
But I am impressed with the R1C1 set up. With a range of fittings that allow good (excellent) macro work.
Anyway I'm looking forward to the training. If I don't mention it again it went rubbishly, fingers crossed.
(and now its today!)
cheers
d
Tomorrow I get to do a bit of training.
Its a wee while since I did any training, longer since I did training on photography. As a trainer I mean (or whatever there called these days)
I'm facilitating (is that what there called?) a course on macro photography. Using a Nikon D300, a Nikor 105mm 2.8 VR lens and a R1C1 wireless speedlight.
I must say I'm really impressed with the D300. I'm a Canon user, but the quality of the D300 could make me change my mind. But I'm a bit less impressed with the lens, I know its a macro (Nikon calls it a micro - ha) and for macro work its good, but for 'normal' work its not so good.
I'm used to using a 24-70mm (Sigma) with my Canon gear, and it does an excellent job as a general lens and a good job (or better - I've never really pushed it - yet) as a macro lens. I think for the best part of £500 I'd want a bit more.
But I am impressed with the R1C1 set up. With a range of fittings that allow good (excellent) macro work.
Anyway I'm looking forward to the training. If I don't mention it again it went rubbishly, fingers crossed.
(and now its today!)
cheers
d
Saturday, 2 August 2008
clock
well today I added a clock to my blog,
how useful is that?
I don't know, yet, but if its not, I'll take it off.
cheers
d
how useful is that?
I don't know, yet, but if its not, I'll take it off.
cheers
d
Friday, 1 August 2008
Thursday, 31 July 2008
last day of the month
where does the time go?
Tomorrow's the first day of August - already, surely my watch must be fast!
Here's the photo from my 2008 calender,
Its my son, who in case you cant guess, is a piper.
This is a photo of him playing himself out from a wedding, last year.
who knows what image will be in July next year?
I don't guess I'd better start thinking about it soon, I'll need to put an order in for 2009 in the next wee while.
2009. Like I was saying where does the time go.
cheers
D
Tomorrow's the first day of August - already, surely my watch must be fast!
Here's the photo from my 2008 calender,
Its my son, who in case you cant guess, is a piper.
This is a photo of him playing himself out from a wedding, last year.
who knows what image will be in July next year?
I don't guess I'd better start thinking about it soon, I'll need to put an order in for 2009 in the next wee while.
2009. Like I was saying where does the time go.
cheers
D
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
damn missed out on a wedding
Hi
I hate not being able to do a wedding, I got a chance to do one on the 15th, but I've got another job that day - not a wedding, so I'm gutted.
And as if to share my pain the sky was very thundery tonight.
it'll be a better day tomorrow
cheers
d
I hate not being able to do a wedding, I got a chance to do one on the 15th, but I've got another job that day - not a wedding, so I'm gutted.
And as if to share my pain the sky was very thundery tonight.
it'll be a better day tomorrow
cheers
d
Monday, 28 July 2008
updates to web
Hi
Well another quite day on holiday,
sitting in the sun,
getting burnt,
great.
but I did do a wee bit of work (ish)
I added some photos to my web site, sunsets.
Have a look, let me know what you think.
http://www.davidspiers.com/Landscape/2nd_landscape.html
cheers
d
Well another quite day on holiday,
sitting in the sun,
getting burnt,
great.
but I did do a wee bit of work (ish)
I added some photos to my web site, sunsets.
Have a look, let me know what you think.
http://www.davidspiers.com/Landscape/2nd_landscape.html
d
Sunday, 27 July 2008
Vive le Tour
| SASTRE Carlos |
| EVANS Cadel |
| KOHL Bernhard |
| MENCHOV Denis |
| VANDEVELDE Christian |
| SCHLECK Frank |
| SANCHEZ Samuel |
| KIRCHEN Kim |
| VALVERDE Alejandro |
| VALJAVEC Tadej |
| EFIMKIN Vladimir |
| SCHLECK Andy |
| KREUZIGER Roman |
| CASAR Sandy |
| MOINARD Amaël |
| ASTARLOZA Mikel |
| SIUTSOU Konstantsin |
| BOTCHAROV Alexandre |
| FOFONOV Dmitriy |
| NIBALI Vincenzo |
| GOUBERT Stephane |
| TEN DAM Laurens |
| MONFORT Maxime |
| POPOVYCH Yaroslav |
| SCHUMACHER Stefan |
| SZMYD Sylvester |
| BRUSEGHIN Marzio |
| DESSEL Cyril |
| KNEES Christian |
| ARROYO David |
| AERTS Mario |
| FEDRIGO Pierrick |
| FOTHEN Markus |
| MOERENHOUT Koos |
| HINCAPIE George |
| CARRARA Matteo |
| VOIGT Jens |
| PINEAU Jérôme |
| GONZALO RAMIREZ Eduardo |
| LE MEVEL Christophe |
| LÖVKVIST Thomas |
| MONCOUTIE David |
| ZABEL Erik |
| VELO Marco |
| ZUBELDIA Haimar |
| GUSTOV Volodymir |
| HESJEDAL Ryder |
| AUGUSTYN John-Lee |
| TIRALONGO Paolo |
| MARTINEZ Egoi |
| LOPEZ GARCIA David |
| TXURRUKA Amets |
| DUQUE Leonardo |
| TSCHOPP Johann |
| DUPONT Hubert |
| GUTIERREZ José Ivan |
| ARVESEN Kurt-Asle |
| VELITS Peter |
| DI GREGORIO Rémy |
| TANKINK Bram |
| CHAVANEL Sylvain |
| SANCHEZ Luis-Leon |
| WEENING Pieter |
| VOGONDY Nicolas |
| CANCELLARA Fabian |
| PORTAL Nicolas |
| POZZATO Filippo |
| MILLAR David |
| POSTHUMA Joost |
| FREIRE Oscar |
| ELMIGER Martin |
| ARRIETA Jose Luis |
| VERDUGO Gorka |
| LE BOULANGER Yoann |
| LANG Sebastian |
| FISCHER Murilo Antoniobil |
| LOWE Trent |
| VAN DE WALLE Jurgen |
| GERRANS Simon |
| PAURIOL Rémi |
| LELAY David |
| VAUGRENARD Benoît |
| CIONI Dario |
| FROOME Christopher |
| LEQUATRE Geoffroy |
| LEFEVRE Laurent |
| VAN SUMMEREN Johan |
| CHEULA Gianpaolo |
| BARREDO Carlos |
| CLEMENT Stef |
| PEREZ Ruben |
| MARZANO Marco |
| SCHOLZ Ronny |
| BALLAN Alessandro |
| PATE Danny |
| TOSATTO Matteo |
| VOECKLER Thomas |
| ROSSELER Sébastien |
| HUSHOVD Thor |
| SCHRÖDER Björn |
| FLORENCIO Xavier |
| BONNET William |
| OROZ Juan José |
| ISASI Inaki |
| MÜLLER Martin |
| CIOLEK Gerald |
| HUNTER Robert |
| HANSEN Adam |
| O’GRADY Stuart |
| DEAN Julian |
| STEEGMANS Gert |
| GILBERT Philippe |
| WILLEMS Frederik |
| DUMOULIN Samuel |
| COYOT Arnaud |
| FÖRSTER Robert |
| BONO Matteo |
| SORENSEN Nicki |
| BRARD Florent |
| BURGHARDT Marcus |
| ROY Jérémy |
| MC EWEN Robbie |
| GRABSCH Ralf |
| HOSTE Leif |
| DE JONGH Steven |
| HAUSSLER Heinrich |
| RIGHI Daniele |
| KUSCHYNSKI Aleksandr |
| LANCASTER Brett Daniel |
| QUINZIATO Manuel |
| LANGEVELD Sebastian |
| GERARD Arnaud |
| FRISCHKORN William |
| MAASKANT Martijn |
| BICHOT Freddy |
| TERPSTRA Niki |
| RIBLON Christophe |
| ENGOULVENT Jimmy |
| AUGE Stéphane |
| MORI Massimiliano |
| GARCIA ACOSTA Vicente |
| SPRICK Matthieu |
| KRAUSS Sven |
| EISEL Bernhard |
| VANSEVENANT Wim |
Saturday, 26 July 2008
good end to a good week
Well that was a really great week.
Weather was wonderful.
I wasn't at work.
I had time to watch le tour,
I had time to get out on my bike,
I had time to get some photos.
Here's a photo of a nice sunset, just to finish off the week.
I'm hoping for more of the same next week.
Fingers crossed.
D
Weather was wonderful.
I wasn't at work.
I had time to watch le tour,
I had time to get out on my bike,
I had time to get some photos.
Here's a photo of a nice sunset, just to finish off the week.
I'm hoping for more of the same next week.
Fingers crossed.
D
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
burned out, in more ways than none...
OK here is my photo from the day,
sometimes you need to travel miles to get a good photo,
sometime you get a good photo on your doorstep.
This is a photo taking from my window, so I didn't even need to go to the doorstep.
Well I like it, but it may not match your definition of a good photo.
But that's OK.
I managed to sit in the garden for a couple of hours, reading a book and listening to music.
I think it may have been quite sunny, my legs, arms, face are, quite warm. But its a nice warm!
Then I went out for a wee run on my bike (push-bike that is) there aren't a lot of hills around here, but I cycled up past Carbery, its a bit of a hill, well its a while since I've done any real work on a bike. I decided to come home via Tranent, thinking the hill down home would round off a nice wee ride. The wind had other ideas, I had to peddle down hill! Gosh the wind was strong.
Now my legs are sore, but not as sore as they will be tomorrow. Must stop watching le Tour, gives me bad ideas
sometimes you need to travel miles to get a good photo,
sometime you get a good photo on your doorstep.
This is a photo taking from my window, so I didn't even need to go to the doorstep.
Well I like it, but it may not match your definition of a good photo.
But that's OK.
I managed to sit in the garden for a couple of hours, reading a book and listening to music.
I think it may have been quite sunny, my legs, arms, face are, quite warm. But its a nice warm!
Then I went out for a wee run on my bike (push-bike that is) there aren't a lot of hills around here, but I cycled up past Carbery, its a bit of a hill, well its a while since I've done any real work on a bike. I decided to come home via Tranent, thinking the hill down home would round off a nice wee ride. The wind had other ideas, I had to peddle down hill! Gosh the wind was strong.
Now my legs are sore, but not as sore as they will be tomorrow. Must stop watching le Tour, gives me bad ideas
Saturday, 19 July 2008
missed a day
well after only two days of posting, I've already missed a day, so much for a daily blog, maybe I could set a new idea and go for a monthly blog, or a yearly blog.
I'll post a couple o
f photos, once I know they're 1/2 decent.
In the meantime I've joined photojojo,
so far it looks quite good, have a look,
let me know what you think.
Looks like there will be lots of nice tips for photos.
and about my photo for the day, well OK, I'll be back soon.
well here we go,
this first image is of a statue in Newtongrange,
I like it, the statue that is, I'll get some details, and come back to this.
And here is the photo I was going to post yesterday, the
bees obviously work better than I do!
I've got a couple of ideas for photos for tomorrow, but they do depend on getting some decent weather.
We'll see.
d
I'll post a couple o
f photos, once I know they're 1/2 decent.In the meantime I've joined photojojo,
so far it looks quite good, have a look,
let me know what you think.
Looks like there will be lots of nice tips for photos.
and about my photo for the day, well OK, I'll be back soon.
well here we go,
this first image is of a statue in Newtongrange,
I like it, the statue that is, I'll get some details, and come back to this.
And here is the photo I was going to post yesterday, the
bees obviously work better than I do!I've got a couple of ideas for photos for tomorrow, but they do depend on getting some decent weather.
We'll see.
d
Thursday, 17 July 2008
1st try
17 July 2008
well I've tried to resist, can't any longer.
Welcome to my blog.
and this is Max.
He lets us stay in his house.
What a good cat.
purr....
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