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Hi, I just thought I'd join Enjoy England and let members here know that there is another excellent site which could prove invaluable to everyone. The site is Geograph.

The purpose of the site is that they are attempting to collect at least one photograph for every 1 kilometre grid square in the British Isles. The three–year–old Geograph has over three quarters of a million photographs on site, useful when planning a visit to places unknown. There are several search options available and an extensive forum to glean information from such as mapping, photography, teaching and learning etc. Obviously with so many photographs, there are plenty of galleries to view.

There are over 6,500 members of all ages and from all walks of life and newcomers will find them to be very helpful. If you wish to contribute you will be given every encouragement. That’s enough waffle, so please start by looking here – http://www.geograph.org.uk/

…and if you would like to view my photographs, there are over 3,500 to look at – http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=2644823

Cheers

Dave (escafeld)

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You're welcome honeybunch. I will be uploading a few recent shots of mine, either tonight or tomorrow.

Langrick Bridge over the River Witham, near Boston. Map Ref. TF2647

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Hi lola - I find if you walk around imagining everything to be a potential photograph, it helps. Bags of practice, which wasn't possible pre-digital cameras, but it did make you careful, unless you had lots of money to spend on processing. Start by trying to emulate photographs you like, but think what it is you like about them. Have a reason to go out and take photographs, like views of your town/village, flowers that appear through the seasons, historic buildings, etc - it keeps the interest going. When you've taken some shots, go out another day and try and improve on them. Just the distance you stand away from a subject makes all the difference. In my early days of photograph, my shots of 'birds in flight' became a standing joke. With me it was the ability to take a picture of a fast moving bird, but the end result was a miniscule image in a large photograph. I didn't see how bad these photographs were at first and now I laugh about them.

Unless you're good at manipulating images, just don't show over/under exposed or blurred photographs and those with tilting horizons, it puts people off your work. You need to enjoy your photography though, don't make it hard work.

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