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Advent Calendar
Zen Mischief Photographs

This year for our Advent Calendar we have a selection of my photographs from recent years. They may not be technically the best, or the most recent, but they’re ones which, for various reasons, I rather like.

Austen graves in Tenterden Churchyard
© Keith C Marshall, 2014
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Just to prove that I occasionally do some real photography these days … Earlier in the week I was sitting outside our local hospital, waiting to be picked up after having just interviewed my wife’s consultant. Unusually for me the only camera I had on me was my mobile phone – I normally carry at least a small “point-and-shoot”. But I thought, let’s see if I can take enough OK shots with my phone to make a panorama.

I like this this joiner technique, which I originally saw done by David Hockney. The angled edges and not quite perfect fit of the images make the whole thing interesting.

Here’s the result. It’s turned out better than I expected.

Panorama of Ealing Hospital — Ealing Hospital
[Postprocessing in Photoshop Elements and Paintshop Pro]
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I recently bought a new trail camera. A relatively expensive one (for a trail camera) as I wanted to get better images.

**OS WILD 4K DS Solar Wi-Fi Trail Camera**
Dual sensor trail camera with stunning night imagery and video;
a built-in solar panel; and high capacity lithium battery

Having set it up, last week was the first full week I had it running. Over the weekend I downloaded almost 2500 captures. And the quality is stunning compared with my old trail camera. Here are the best captures from the week; all have been fairly heavily cropped. For scale, the birdbath in the images is at most 2 meters from the camera and about 40cm in diameter.

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