Your Photographs.

I really enjoy taking photographs.

Here are a couple:

St Mary’s Loch, Scotland.



Andratx, Mallorca.

Very professional ,Gemo ,lovely photo's,what camera are you using?

Thank you, Bella.

At the moment a Sony Alpha 700, but I had the Alpha 100 and 200 before that. I’ve used a Sony 18-250mm lens for most of my shots and before that I had a Tamron version of the same lens.

I like photographing animals.

A couple of prairie dogs on their first day out of their nest.

You must have travelled ,Gemo Where did you see the prairie dogs,lovely picture

They were in Five Sisters Zoo in Scotland.

I have travelled quite a bit but loads of my pictures are on film and it would be too much like hard work to scan them and put them on the web. The work I have on my gallery is from the last three or four years. The Gallery is my Homepage on SBS.

I'll have a look at that,Gemo
Ive started scanning some of my pictures from travelling days,it's alot of work though.

Bella wrote:

I'll have a look at that,Gemo
Ive started scanning some of my pictures from travelling days,it's alot of work though.

If you’ve got a desk top and a lap top computer you could scan on the desk top and post on forums on the lappy.

Ive just done a couple,Gemo,I'll put them on a travel thread,Im no expert photographer though but I enjoy taking photos

I just point and shoot. I take photographs when a more knowledgable photographer wouldn’t attempt to do so and sometimes it works. Failures with digital cost nothing.

You must be doing something right,Gemo,that prairie Dog one is excellent as are the others.I think you have to an eye for composition with photography .

Fabulous pictures Gemo52.

I will have a look at your gallery on SBS just now.

Thank you, Magicalstar.

Another couple.

Sunrise over Luxor (taken from a balloon).



And a sunset over Maspalomas, Gran Canaria.

Excellent ,Gemo,you've got the light right

Bella wrote:

Excellent ,Gemo,you've got the light right

Thank you

I hadn’t put those pictures together before and so I hadn’t noticed the similarity between the lighthouse and the minaret, let alone that I’d stuck them in almost the same place.

Gemo52 wrote:

Thank you, Bella.

At the moment a Sony Alpha 700, but I had the Alpha 100 and 200 before that. I’ve used a Sony 18-250mm lens for most of my shots and before that I had a Tamron version of the same lens.

I like photographing animals.

A couple of prairie dogs on their first day out of their nest.

Gem, you are a veritable charm with the camera, and your mind's eye and imagination to capture the moment is to be commended indeed.

Gemo, your pictures are damn good. You should enter a few competitions.

She would win those competitions were Gem to do so, Magical.

Thank you.

The last time I entered a competition was quite embarrassing. It was about 10 years and I was covering training trip for professional photographers as a journalist. They had a competition as part of their week and my mate had prepared three prints for me to enter just for a laugh. I got second prize with my rainbow over Seattle – it was taken on film and I wouldn’t know where to find the scan but I do have the print hanging in the house.

They are professional to me, Gem, and even if they aren't they possess the aspect of being so.

Well done,Gem,
The training trip sounds interesting ,what did it entail ?

Bella wrote:

Well done,Gem,
The training trip sounds interesting ,what did it entail ?

It was a load of mainly social photographers having a week in the sun – but it rained – have training in how to improve their photography. It was a bit boring.

What ashame,the competition was a bonus though ,Are you a journalist ,Gem

I’m a journalist by default. My mate is a trained journalist and we have a publishing company and I used to edit books and magazines. I still do a bit but nowhere near as much as I used to.