By Zo Nicholas Contents [ hide ] 1 Goodbye Sweet Pea 1.1 Sweet Pea Plant Goodbye Sweet Pea One of those wonderful sweet smelling garden flowers is the Sweetpea, Lathyrus Odoratus. A native of the native of the Mediterranean region but grown successfully here in my garden in Essex. Sweet Pea Plant The Sweet Pea [...]

By Zo Nicholas Contents [ hide ] 1 Editing Photos Exercise 1.1 Editing Photos of Flowers Editing Photos Exercise Today turned out to be a stunning day weather wise - a warm breeze, lots of sunshine with long wispy clouds overhead; a day to just go outside and enjoy!  After the heavy downpour we had overnight [...]

By Zo Nicholas Contents [ hide ] 1 Summer Feasts 1.1 Wasps 1.2 European Wasp 1.3 European Wasp image Summer Feasts The summer holidays are almost over and the children start the process of going back to school and we slowly drift into autumn; the season of ‘mellow fruitfullness’ as so aptly put by John [...]

By Zo Nicholas Contents [ hide ] 1 Editing Photos Exercise 1.1 Edited Photos Editing Photos Exercise Ycademy Trainings offer training in various subjects. Digital Photography and the preparation of photos for the new ‘Photo Media Stock’ site was covered during the August seminar. Following  through on this theme Fridays daily training call was concerned with  editing photos using Lightroom3. As all [...]

By Zo Nicholas Contents [ hide ] 1 Spider 1.1 Garden Spider  Spider The last day in August turns out to be a glorious summers day which is a rare occurence this summer here in Essex where I live. If you saw my earlier posts about the local  Airshow you will notice that the weather nearly [...]

By Zo Nicholas Contents [ hide ] 1 Clacton Airshow images 1.1 Clacton Airshow Day 2 Clacton Airshow images First day of the Clacton Airshow 2010  provided a great opportunity to take out the digital camera to shoot some pictures of the days proceedings.  Here are a couple of pictures taken of the Red Arrows aerobatics display [...]

By Zo Nicholas Contents [ hide ] 1 First Day at the Airshow First Day at the Airshow Althougth the rest of  East Anglia suffered some torrential downpours, down here around the coast of Clacton the weather remained relatively good enough for the Claton Airshow 2010 to go ahead. The weather was by now means [...]

By Zo Nicholas Contents [ hide ] 1 Clacton Airshow 2 Clacton Airshow 2010 Clacton Airshow Today is the day of the actual Clacton Airshow, a 2 day annual event that takes place along the beach and greensward in Clacton, with a full air display taking place over the sea during the afternoon . An event that in [...]

By Zo Nicholas Contents [ hide ] 1 Full Moon 2 Shooting at the Moon 2.1 Full Moon Full Moon After a day of very strong winds, heavy clouds, sunshine and showers as the night came we managed to get a peek of a full moon amongst the heavy clouds. Taking a picture of the moon [...]

By Zo Nicholas Contents [ hide ] 1 Shooting at Rainbows in Essex Shooting at Rainbows in Essex Using Lightroom and making a few adjustments you can dramatically change the look and the feel of any photograph. The photograph of the rainbow in Essex looks very different from the original after having a few adjustments made [...]