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My interest in photography came from playing with my dad’s old black and white kit.
I have been trying to write this post for a while and last year I made a great discovery which forced me to update my original version with this post which has a lot more authenticity, as you will see. In the previous version I used a stock image from the internet to illustrate the […]
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Present, with one eye on the future.
Serendipity. That’s the word. And a happy accident is exactly what losing my spectacle lens was. You have probably suspected that I have had a screw loose for quite some time and, a couple of months ago, this turned out to be an accurate prophecy when the screw dropped out of the right hand side […]
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Like a day at Trent Bridge, Rain stops play.
Well that’s a shame and it seems appropriate as I’m in Scotland that the I let Robert Burns himself say: “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.” Yesterday I planned to leave today’s photography session until later in the day. It seemed to make sense to allow the sun to move […]
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How did you get on with the Rock?
If you remember from yesterday’s thrilling installment, I have set myself a challenge to capture an image that I can print and hang in my wall . The subject is a receding set of mountains with a rock in the foreground. Well, I didn’t get up as early as perhaps I should have but this […]
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A personal challenge.
I am not a great photographer. Let’s get that out in the open right from the outset. I like to think that I am fairly good and can capture nice images of sailing boats doing what sailing boats do. As long as the sun is shinning, the wind is blowing and boats are sailing, then […]
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It’s OK when a squall comes
Imagine the scene. There I am, in a RIB, taking photos of the OK national championships in Weymouth bay. It’s pretty standard stuff. A nice breeze blowing and I am getting some nice images of the competitors. Some group shots and some close ups. All good stuff but not terribly exciting. Then it starts to […]
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In the beginning
This is the first post in my new blog. If you have followed me here then thank you and welcome. This website is distinct from my RichardBowersPhotography.co.uk site and is intended as a general blog and news site while the other site will remain as my portfolio of sailing event photography. So here were are. […]