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December 2016 

Photographers Resource

ISSN 2399-6706

Issue No: 155


Some Christmas cakes can become quite large.

(This photo also shows that you can take photos on your iPhone).

Everyone at
Photographers Resource

Would Like to wish you a Very

December Diary
Wildlife Photography In December
Your First Visit To This Resource

Happy Christmas

and a successful

New Year for 2017

Another year has nearly past us by and 2017 is just around the corner. The nights get dark early and it's colder, but that shouldn't put you off photography. Christmas and all the parties and functions you attend will provide plenty of opportunities to snap family, friends, colleagues and the office party 'funny' or 'awkward' moments. If going to a party lugging your camera is not seen as the done thing, then today's smartphone cameras provide an image quality quite suitable for website use, and sharing with your friends online. When using these cameras it is tempting to let them 'auto' snap and for most occasions this is perfectly acceptable, but don't forget to put your photo techniques into practice.

If you are of sturdy stock and can brave the evening chill then there are lots of possibilities on your doorstep, with many towns and cities lighting up some of their streets with festive lights, winter wonderlands with their ice rinks and fairgrounds as well as dramatic weather photos. Not everything shuts down for winter, and we have an always open article which gives you some ideas of photo opportunities to look out for over the coming months. So if you fancy getting out and about together with our list of always open heritage places there is something for everyone.

Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire

Every year a very large Christmas Tree is placed in the River in the centre of the village. This photo was taken using a star filter, to pick up the effect of the street lights around.

I love living in the countryside and being able to see the Red Robin, so associated with Christmas, searching out for food in my garden, as well as using our large hedges for shelter. But also when you get the frosts there is ice, frosted cobwebs, dramatic mists and ice patterns in the garden pond or on the car windscreen. So from this you can see there are so many opportunities available and there is no need to put your camera away over the winter, as long as you can brave the colder temperatures you can continue to increase your photo collection, take the opportunity to try out new skills, and make use of the attractions open.

The Robin.

Adorning many a seasonal Christmas Card, but also will be found foraging in our gardens and in the parks and countryside on those special days out during the winter months.

If on the other hand you're not so keen to get out and about over the winter months, or at least not every weekend then over the coming winter months perhaps it is time to take on some good housekeeping tasks. We all do it, we spend our time taking gorgeous images but spend very little, if any, in organising them, or even backing them up. So perhaps during the winter months it is time to make sure we have our photo stock in order.

It is all too easy today to have thousands of photos on your computer or in the cloud, collected over many years. Eventually your cloud storage and computer's hard disk fills up and then you invest in an external hard drive or other devices to store them on. But once you have all these photos how do you go about finding them again. It's not easy, very few of us are librarians and are any good at indexing or filing. Even less of us like backing up our photo collections, and very few do it. The extra time you have indoors over the coming months, may be the best time to sort out,  back up, organise and index your photos for future prosperity. We also have other articles you might find helpful for this task, including; metadata, keywords and captions, using flags and filters.

A Frosty Winter Morning


See You Again in 2017


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