On the 11th August 2011 I’ve set up a Facebook page to promote my work. If you’re on Facebook, feel free to visit or like the page, which like this blog, offers the sale of framed prints on request, and will in time, hopefully offer commissions, such as Weddings, parties and location shots etc…
To visit the page, just click HERE. Feedback is always welcome and I look forward to seeing you there.
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Faded Fuschia, originally uploaded by nEoPOL.
After 900 images over just under 6 years of online photography, I will finally be offering framed prints for sale.
I’m still working on the final sales structure and pricing etc… but soon I intend to offer a large range of prints, with a variety of framing options, including canvas and posters as soon apossible at competative prices.
But whilst this is moving forward, if anyone would like to enquire about framed ptints, then feel free to contact me via email at neopol313@msn.com.
“Faded Fuschia” is my latest image and one which is little more experimental in it’s colour and tone. I’ve also used a different frame/border than normal.
Nature Style, originally uploaded by nEoPOL.
Posted on Flickr less than two day ago, this picture has already reached 100 hits.
A simple image of a thistle, taken outside the home of poet William Wordsworth, in Grasmere, The Lake District, has been adjusted, just a tad and it would seem to great effect.
Either way, it seem to be popular and I’m proud of this piece. As with all photographs, the ultimate test is whether or not you enjoy looking at it and I actually do.
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Smooth Flow, originally uploaded by nEoPOL.
Smooth Flow
This is my 900th upload to Flickr since 10th September 2005
An image of Stock Ghyll Force, in Ambleside, The Lake District. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending your viewpoint, this was taken in the midst of a torrential rain storm, so my efforts to achieve a smooth exposure where thwarted. The plus point though is that with all that rain, well it had to go somewhere so the waterfall was flowing beautifully. An amazing sight in the real life, that’s for sure…
In honour of my wedding today, at 1:40 to my beautiful fiancée, Michelle, here are two pictures which I took earlier in the week of our wedding rings. They are simple, white gold band and here are two images taken with my D40, both looking quite different. The aim was to maintain the white gold without making them look like anything else, namely, yellow gold! So I have treated both images differently, one is warm and the other cooler.
Both are exclusive to this blog:
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This is my third, but first "Traditional" Image to be taken with my Nikon D80. The higher resolution compared to the D40 is clear in the DOF.
In late December 2007, I upgraded from my Kodak Z740 5mp compact to my beloved Nikon D40 DSLR. The D40 is/was an entry level DSLR, but in my and many opinions, an entry level Nikon is still top flight in camera terms. It was with this, that I captured well over 25,000 images, including ten lucrative “Face In The Flame”.
I have covered parties, events, explored conceptual photography and taken many a beautiful vista with this now discontinued gem, but it was time to upgrade. Now, many would argue that a D80, a camera which is as obsolete as the D40, isn’t much of a wise upgrade. The latest cameras, such as the D3100, or D90 would be miles better, but I’m on a budget. And my view was simple: The D80 was my ideal choice when I got the D40 in the first place and it will do what I want it to now.
The first major improvement on the D40 is the auto focus pin on the lens mount. This allows the autofocus to be driven from the camera itself, rather than relying on AF lenses to do all the work, as with the D40, that camera’s most profound failing, one of only a few might I add. What’s the problem? Well, like I said, I’m on a budget and a couple of years ago, I added a 300mm Sigma lens to my kit, and the auto focus will not work with the D40, as the it relies on the camera to drive it.
Now, with the D80, that lens works just fine, opening up the lenses’ full potential. The resolution, which has increased from the D40′s 6mp to 10.1mp is great and essential for a semi-professional photographer. But the interface is what has won me over, with a more comprehensive, old fashioned system, relying on dials and function buttons rather than the on-screen menu system offered with the D40.
The D80 has does away with the on-screen menus as regards to the operation of the shutter and taking shots etc…, instead returning to the pro SLR’s small LCD on the top of the body. I love this, as the large screen often glared in my view-finding eye and I was forced at times to turn it off. But this is well out of the way and offers no light polution what so ever.
The major CON with this model comes from the battery. Basically, the Nikon battery and high end non-Nikon replacements, contain a chip to communicate with camera, to give a detailed readout of what the battery has being doing etc…, but cheaper replacements DO NOT, which results in a false dead battery reading. This means that the body won’t activate until you put a fully charged battery in, which you just have!
I bought this camera second hand and have been fobbed off with a cheap battery, which is now all but useless, but upon buying a more expensive replacement, it works just fine, so far anyway. Just something to bare in mind…
Simply put, this model feels much more professional, or at least a step in the right direction, than the D40 and though it offers many features absent from D40, it is in no way, vastly different, simply improving the interface for more precise and swift movement through the shot process. I am certainly looking forward to exploring this camera, that’s for sure.
For a more detailed review, I would recommend… DP Review
Also for the first images posted from this camera, take a look at Flickr
This is my first upload from my newly acquired Nikon D80. This is a departure from my usual. I’ve done many conceptual, artistic works, but this seems to be a little different…
This is clearly a selectively coloured rose. My only quibble here is that the rose has minor damage to its petals in places, which moves this away from a picture of perfection, but it also adds a nice tone of perfection beginning to decay…
This is dedicated to my work mate, Alan Penkethman. This may well be a photograph that he almost likes! 
But on a more serious note, this was a full colour image that I have chosen to give a more sepia or tobacco cast . It just seemed to add a level of elegance to the image. This is also the first time that I have used a frame. Not sure where it will catch on…
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