Recent content by frizzy

still very much a beginner so please forgive any mistakes! This is one of the viaduct in my home town, was very lucky to just be able to catch the light at the right time, have not managed to recreate it since! This is a more recent one from Ilfracombe in Devon, I was blessed to see...

I also have this backpack and have found it very useful, admittedly the camera compartment isn't large but I have also been using the zipped part behind the water/tripod net to hold another lens in a padded lens pouch for more flexibility. There is also a dedicated strap just to hold your camera...

Using the cloudy white balance preset helps maintain the colours of a sunset, I've achieved some good results this way.

It could also be your memory card reader, I thought I had a duff memory card because it produced pictures like yours until I changed the reader and they were all fine again, try all possibilities!

I also have that tripod and I am very happy with it, its survived 3 longhaul plane journeys and its light enough to go trekking up hills with! I also had a problem with the rubber ring on the large knob snapping (I'm guessing due to temp changes from a 38*C country to a very cold plane cargo...

Apologies for the absolutely shocking photo quality, but its the best I could do given the circumstances! Backstory: I was on holiday in Cuba and thought I would make use of the low levels of light pollution and get some nice star pictures so I walked down a grass pathway to a nice dark area...

Velcro by sarah-perkins, on Flickr My cat Velcro loves to sit out on the windowsill on the outside of the window and watch the birds so I snapped a quick picture of her, it's probably not perfect because I had to lean out of the window with my camera :P

My name is Sarah and I'm lucky enough to live in the picturesque county of North Yorkshire. I've been interested in photography for the last 5 or 6 years but I am still very much a novice! I also enjoy gaming, building computers and cycling :)

Ah that's good, guess I'll have to kick my printer a few times :D Thank you for the warm welcomes :)

This is my first post here and I'm definitely in the novice category so please be gentle :$ This is straight out of camera no PP yet, do the colours look ok? I've been having problems with printed photos and I'm not sure if its my printer or my monitor displaying colours wrong, they seem to...