The Three Essential Filters | PhotoGuides

If you’re working with an SLR or a high end point and shoot camera, it’s likely that you’ll have the ability to use filters. Filters are additional pieces of glass or plastic that are placed over the lens to achieve certain effects or modify the light entering the lens. Here are the three most common types of filters that are essential tools for any photographer looking to excel.

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This is a very good website if you are interested in learning about photography. Lots of useful information.

Best and worst Christmas songs ever

The festive season has been responsible for some sublime and many ridiculous examples of popular song. Tom Townshend investigates...

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Who is this giggling away behind an ill-fitting Santa disguise? Why, it's none other than psychedelic rock god Jimi Hendrix.

For some reason, Christmas has always had a strange effect on our musical heroes, occasionally inspiring them to create classic songs but more often than not leading them to a load of old jingle balls.

Tom Townshend dusts off his festive record collection to take a look at the best and worst.

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With Christmas fast approaching it will be interesting to see what songs are brought out for the festive season. So what's your favourite Christmas song?

Swedish Body Massage - Ipswich / Suffolk Complementary Health Treatments

Swedish Body Massage

 

Swedish massage is a holistic therapy which treats the entire being – mind, body and soul to promote harmony and well being through relaxation.  Massage is one of the oldest forms of healing and began as a structured system of touch which produced positive results for people’s health and wellbeing.

Massage therapy has been proved to be an effective, therapeutic tool to rebuild a more positive self-image and sense of self-worth. Many clients who suffer from stress, tension or emotional trauma find massage an effective therapy. It can also help with PMT and menopause symptoms as it promotes relaxation and harmony.

Massage is also effective for treating conditions such as arthritis, asthma, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic and acute pain, circulatory problems, digestive disorders, headache, immune function disorders, insomnia, Myofascial pain, reduced range of motion, sports injuries and facial joint dysfunction.

Massage clients are invited to relax into the bliss of an hour’s full body massage or the shorter half hour treatment of a back, neck and shoulder massage. Clients being treated for the first time have a full consultation including medical history and are given advice about how the massage will benefit them and how to look after themselves following a massage. The client lays on a massage couch, face down wearing only their underwear but their modesty is covered with towels at all times apart from the body section the therapist is working on.

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If the dark cold days are bringing you down then how about treating yourself to a Swedish Body Massage. It's great to be pampered every now and then. So go on - treat yourself!

Digital Photography Shots

Beautiful Swan on the Lake

I managed to get some good shots of this swan on the lake.  She looked so elegant and serene.

You can see some more swan photos at Digital Photography Shots

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I love swans and these swans look so elegant and serene.

The world from my window: The first day of advent

The first day of advent

As we traipse down a snowy driveway to the Big House, our thoughts are on a poignant funeral service for a friend.

A cold church, puffs of steam coming from people's mouths and noses as they sing Amazing Grace, a floral tribute that says 'Mum', a tolling bell and memories of a feisty, fun and pint-sized woman loved by all who knew her. The church is packed with villagers, in big coats and warm hats. They stand in the pews: Caruso, Princess Peach, the Popes, the Parson's Daughter, Nobby Odd-Job, Mamma Mia, Mr and Mrs Sheepwash and Mrs Bancroft. There is Night Nurse beside the Loveliest Lady in the Village, there is Posh Totty and Mr F Word and Camilla and Mr and Mrs Putter. The church is so full that Tuppence and Ding Dong Daddy and his wife have to sit in the choir stalls, just steps away from our departed friend.

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This is one of my favourite blogs. It is written so well and with such emotions, you could almost picture yourself there. In this post she writes about a funeral in the village of a dear friend on the first day of advent.

Beautiful Plants and Flowers From My Garden

Daisies From My Garden 

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I love flowers and these daisies are here to remind us of the summer days when the weather was warm and sunny.

Feeding Wild Garden Birds

Feeding Wild Birds In My Garden

Nature and wild life are my passion and one great pleasure for me is feeding wild birds in my garden.

I have lived in the beautiful Suffolk countryside in England for over 3 years now since moving from London. London was so noisy and crowded and seemed to be getting worse by the day so when I moved to the country it was quite a culture shock for me. It is so peaceful and tranquil where I now live and I am very lucky to have a beautiful garden that attracts many species of wild birds. One of the first things I noticed when I moved to this house was that the garden was full of beautiful and melodic bird song.

When I get up in the morning the first job of the day is feeding the wild garden birds. They always seem to be waiting for me to come and feed them and I love to sit and watch them eating.

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I just love wild birds and feeding them is especially important at this time of year when the weather is so freezing cold and food is scarce for them.

So lets all do our bit and feed our wild garden birds this winter.