Victoria's Pictorium

The Picstoria [blog]

  • Gretta & Pete & Molly

    When you arrange to take pictures outside at the beginning of March in London, you can’t really wish for any better than for it to be a mild and literal Sunday. There was even a glimpse of warmth in the air. With the sun still low in the sky, Greenwich Park was bathed in a Read more

  • The birds & the trees

    My local area is full of parakeets. I took some pictures of them in the trees at dusk towards the end of last year, but I had somehow neglected to transfer them onto the computer until now. They remind me of Japanese decorative paper. Read more

  • A hazy shade of Winter

    In winter, the bare trees and low angle of the sun provide infinite opportunities for capturing silhouettes. The light often carries a cool pink undertone that really comes into its own around sunset. There is a small wood nearby that I’ve been visiting most weekends. Some days I have stayed out for so long that Read more

  • Take 2: What’s the time, Mr Schultz?

    This weekend I discovered that my windowsill during daylight hours makes a great little blank space as a photo setting for small objects. It’s easy to get in close without a tripod when there’s abundant light bouncing all around the subject. In my last Take 2 post I talked about a sort of minimal correctional Read more

  • Take 2: Tinkerbell

    Whilst visiting my mother for christmas I took the opportunity to get some shots of her cats. On boxing day I found one curled up in the hallway with the sunlight filtering through the front door. I used the 55mm lens that I wrote about in my last post. There was just enough light, with Read more

  • Old Friends

    I spent the end of last week visiting a friend in Bournemouth. We were quite seasonally lazy for the most part but did manage to get ourselves off the sofa for a little trip to Poole Harbour on Friday. It was a beautiful day after a few days of bitter winds and rain (as I Read more