Peacocks at Warwick Castle, Warwick England UK

Peacocks at Warwick Castle, Warwick England UK

Peacocks wonder freely at Warwick. The peacocks are big, beautiful and loud. The call of the peacocks resonates through out the grounds of Warwick castle and let everyone know the peacocks are there. In fact the calling peacocks let everyone know that there a quite a number of peacocks freely roaming the grounds of Warwick Castle.
Peacocks are not indigenous to the UK. Originally native to south Asia Peacocks were thought to have been introduced to western Europe by the Ancient Greeks and introduced to England by the Romans.

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Why Nikon: The Nikon F3 The First SLR I Ever Used

Why Nikon: The Nikon F3 The First SLR I Ever Used

A Nikon was the first SLR camera I ever used. It was my brother's Nikon F3. The Nikon F3 was Nikons flagship professional 35 mm SLR.This was before the Nikon D4 or the Nikon D3, It was before Nikon made the D2x or the D2h or andy of Nikon D1 series. In fact it was before Nikon had anything digital. Nikon even had 3 flagship 35mm SLR bodies, the Nikon F4 and the Nikon F5 and the Nikon F6, after the F3, although they continued producing the F3 even after the F5 was released. So my brother lent me his Nikon gear for a week. The kit included his Nikon F3, a Nikkor 80-200 f4, a Nikkor 35mm f2, a Nikkor 20mm f2.8 and a 55mm f2.8 micro Nikkor. It was some great Nikon gear and I had no idea how to use it. So everyday for a week I shot with the F3. I practiced focusing the Nikkor Lenses, I played with the Nikon metering system, I adjusted apertures and set shutter speed. I loved every second of it and that Nikon F3 is a big part of why I used Nikon today.

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GoPro Time Lapse Rome Italy Airport to Apartment

Once our airplane had landed at Leonardo Da Vinci Airport in Rome and we got our bags and got through customs we had a car waiting for us to take us to our Air B&B apartment. Now having cars pick me up at airports is not my usual way to travel but in this cars there were enough of us that is more cost effective and convenient to have a car pick us up.
Unfortunately we had already started moving and had left the airport by the time I was able to get the GoPro ready to start photographing so the time lapse starts with us already traveling on the highway.

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GoPro Time Lapse Airports & Airplanes Traveling to Rome Italy

GoPro Time Lapse Airports & Airplanes Traveling to Rome Italy.
Ah Italy, such a beautiful country. My wife and I were embarking on a trip to La Dolce Vita, the sweet life of Italy and I made sure my GoPro batteries were charged and it was set to time lapse mode. The time lapse feature in the little GoPro cameras is one of my favourite features and traveling in an airplane is a great opportunity to play with it and I wasn't about to let that opportunity pass me by on this flight. Once we passed through security at the airport I pulled out my GoPro and put it on the suction cup mount and attached it to the window at the airport until it was time to board the airplane. Once on the plane I attached the suction cup to the window of the plane as quickly as I could so that the GoPro was ready for take off. After the first flight, while we were waiting in the airport for our connecting flight I attached the GoPro to the window of the second airport and kept the time lapse going and got a bit of the sunset by shear luck. Unfortunately by the time we got on the connecting flight my luck had run out as it was quite dark and the lights were on in the airplane so I didn't think it was going to work, but looking back I probably should have tried it anyway.
I continued the time lapse several hours into the flight when the sun was coming up over the horizon and then finished it with the airplane landing at Leonardo Da Vinci Airport in Rome.

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Photo Gear I brought to the Iberostar Laguna Azul Resort, Varadero Beach, Cuba

Photo Gear I brought to the Iberostar Laguna Azul Resort, Varadero Beach, Cuba

After the first trip we took to the Iberostar Laguna Azul Resort in Varadero Cuba, I made this video of the gear that I brought with me on that trip. Deciding what camera gear to bring while travelling is a balancing act. You want to make sure you have all the gear you need to get great photos and video in all the situation you want but camera gear is heavy and so you don't want to be lugging around a bunch of photo and video gear you don't need or worse yet don't use. The only way to figure out the balance when travelling with photography / videography gear is to travel with photography / videography gear. There really is no substitute for experience, seeing what you use and what you don't and adjust for the next trip, but seeing what gear others take with them travelling is also useful for ideas. I made this video for that reason, to give ideas on what gear might be useful while travelling... and maybe, just maybe so I'd remember what I brought.

The photography / videography gear I brought with me to the Iberostar Laguna Azul Resort at Varadero Beach in Cuba was as follows:

Nikon D7000 camera body
Nikon 24-120mm f4 lens
Nikon 17-35mm f2.8 lens
Nikon 50mm f1.4 lens
Kata 3in1-20 gear pack
Gitzo Traveller Tripod

Bokeflo Video Intro

bokeflo Intro

A Youtube video I made as an introduction to bokeflo my website and my Youtube channel.

What is Bokeflo

bokeh (Japanese pronunciation: [boke]) is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light. From the Japanese word boke, which means "blur" or "haze", or boke-aji, the "blur quality".

So why Bokeflo? I don't know, I guess it sounded good and I could get a dot-com domain with it so why not. I also have a thing for shallow depth of field images with a beautiful bokeh, both as stills and video, so there is some relevance to it.
What is Bokeflo? I guess what I would like it to be is a site/blog where I can present my images, both still and video, and get feed back as well as discuss topics related to photography and videography. It is also work in progress, where I learn about how all this web stuff works. Hope you like it.

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