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Yellow

Photo taken in the garden on one of those rare sunny days here.

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Cornfield

A slightly long walk away from the house I found these fields ripe.

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Sheep and the lamb

I was out with the long lens one day and captured a few shots of the sheep and their pups who were in a field behind out vet.

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First snow

Hello, this is my first proper new photo in ages!! Sorry for being away for so long. Just lack of time, lack of motivation and lack of access to Photoshop CS. Hopefully I’ll be able to get a few more done before my trial runs out in 12 days time.

This was taken in the fields near my house after a we got covered in snow (for the first time in years) in February 2009. We don’t get much snow here so I made the most of it and took lots of pics.

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Prints available

I’ve completed creating prints on my store page at deviantART.

Have a browse of the the available photos below.  They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and canvas and mugs are available too.  They are all bordered as seen here, but please let me know if you wish a non-border version or if you would like prints of any other photo of mine, found on my flickr page or my .photography collection.  Please also let me know if you would like other products such as calendars, mouse pads, magnets, postcards, coasters, puzzles?

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My Flickr groups

I’m a huge fan of Flickr and is where I post all of my photos (good and bad!). Since joining the site I’ve created a several groups and I thought I’d list them all just in case anyone is interested. The main ones are:

World Tour: Do Before You Die:
flickr.com/groups/dobeforeyoudie
(a group of photos that’ll inspire people to travel the World)

Wonders of the World:
flickr.com/groups/wondersoftheworld
(a group of photos you think are ‘wonders’)

British Isles & Ireland:
flickr.com/groups/britishisles
(a group for anything relating to the British Isles and Ireland)

Learn by Picture:
flickr.com/groups/learnbypicture
(a group to post your photos to get feedback and advice from others)

How-to by Photograph:
flickr.com/groups/howtobyphotograph
(a group to post images and their details of how they were created for others to learn from)

Tutorial by Picture:
flickr.com/groups/tutorialbypicture
(a group to post images that are photography tutorials)

And a quick list of the rest:

Ashdown Forest - a large park in the South East of England
Edenbridge - a small town in Kent, UK
Hever UK - near Edenbridge and home of the great Hever Castle
Rally Car British Isles & Ireland - I like rally cars what can I say
Rugby Union England - a group about the sport in England
Tennis UK - sports group for the UK
Thatcham - a town near Newbury and Reading in the UK and one of the many places I’ve lived
Tonbridge - a another town near Edenbridge
Westerham - guess where this town is near?
Westerham Golf Club - one of the golf clubs my brother has worked
Wimbledon Tennis Championships - a group for the great tournament

So please pop along, share you photos and post your discussions.

If you’re like me and rushed off your feet with little time to spare check the public Google Reader feed I’ve created here. It’s put all my groups together and any new photo added to any and all of the groups above will appear there. And once on the page you can subscribe to the RSS feed yourselves and receive regular updates. I’ve created several public feeds like this so if you think that might be of use to you then watch this space as I’ll be posting details of how to create them and a list of my other feeds in the future.

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New About page

Along with many additions to the brand new site, I’ve added a new About page.  A copy is printed below and expect this to be tweaked several times before it settles down.   New about details:

I’m a keen photographer who is learning all the time. Photography is a passion and a hobby that’s taken over my life. I really enjoy taking photos but feel I have a lot of room for improvement. Saying that I can definitely see I’m bettering myself as time goes by. I brought my first digital SLR camera in August 2006 but got serious in October 2007.I would like to eventually combine photography with my other interests; traveling, cycling & pencil drawing. I can’t imagine anything more ideal. My main genres are landscapes, nature, animal, event and sport but enjoy any style of photography and will continue to experiment and explore as many areas as I can.

Along with photography I’m working with Photoshop and love fine-tuning and manipulating photos. I’ve found Photoshop very easy to pick up and use but, again, there is lots to learn.

I have been a regular visitor to flickr and have a large collection of photos, ranging from pure holiday snaps to my recent portfolio shots. For a selection of my images head over to my.photography collection.

I’ve created a several groups, the main ones are: -

World Tour: Do Before You Die:
flickr.com/groups/dobeforeyoudie
(a group of photos that’ll inspire people to travel the World)

Wonders of the World:
flickr.com/groups/wondersoftheworld
(a group of photos you think are ‘wonders’)

British Isles & Ireland:
flickr.com/groups/britishisles
(a group for anything relating to the British Isles and Ireland)

Learn by Picture:
flickr.com/groups/learnbypicture
(a group to post your photos to get feedback and advice from others)

How-to by Photograph:
flickr.com/groups/howtobyphotograph
(a group to post images and their details of how they were created for others to learn from)

Tutorial by Picture:
flickr.com/groups/tutorialbypicture
(a group to post images that are photography tutorials)

So please pop along, share you photos and post your discussions.

I also have a deviantART page where you can buy prints, etc. of my work, have a look here at koltregaskes.deviantart.com

My photos have been used by various people, such as a outside broadcasting company, a major credit card and potentially one photo will be used for a Royal Mail stamp in the UK for Summer 2008. So if you are interested in using my photos or my services please contact me. Finally, enjoy my site!

1. Frosty leaf, 2. Turn on the stile, 3. Bird of Prey, I am not, 4. Candle light, 5. Wimbledon Tennis Championships 2007, 6. Purple sky, 7. Perfect Kaz, re-visited, 8. Branch in the sunrise, 9. Captain’s armband, 10. Pond near Skinners Farm in Edenbridge, 11. City Hall, 12. Rally car racing at Goodwood Festival of Speed, 13. Gorillas at London Zoo

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Interesting link: The First Post

I’m starting to really like this site. It’s called The First Post. It’s basically an online news site. Very well written (though the sports articles appear to be from offline papers, well they did on Sunday) and nice big photos (which makes a change to the stupidly small thumbnail size pics you normally get). You can subscribe to several regular e-mail subscriptions and RSS feeds, which seem to come at you at about 9:45AM (in the UK anyway ). I particular like the Arts section and their roundup of all the news for the week that is posted every Sunday.

The main site is:
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/

There is a news in pictures section here:
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?storyID=1513

And a picture of the day section here (with a link to the archives):
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?storyID=6934

Music reviews are here:
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=4&subID=1452

Plus a good round-up of the Sunday papers is here, erm, every Sunday :
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=0&subID=7

You can find all these links easily from the main site and there is even a photography page here.