Paul Murphy Photography: Recently Added Galleries and Collections

New photos

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:54:37 GMT

]]>This is a small gallery of my recent photos. I will edit this gallery regularly as I go along and most new photos I add to the site will spend a few days in here before adding to their final destination gallery.

Macro

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:52:40 GMT

]]>I started macro photography with my first digital compact camera which I adapted to take extreme close ups. This would not be possible with the cameras own macro mode. It was quite an effective tool but the file sizes are unfortunately rather small.
I continue to shoot macros with my current dedicated 150 mm lens and DSLR camera.

Birds

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:39:39 GMT

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Butterflies

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:15:12 GMT

]]>I really enjoy macro and close up photography and Butterflies are my favourite subject. I live close to some very good sites on the limestone hills around Morecambe Bay and I go there as often as I can during the spring and summer months.

In 2008, we spent a week in The Dordogne area of France. This was an amazing place for butterflies both for variety of species and numbers.

I take all my photos in the animals' natural habitat, using a handholding technique. I never use a tripod or monopod mainly because these fast moving creatures would be long gone before I could get set up. However, I'm thinking that to get the very best quality of image a tripod may be a useful piece of equipment and I may try this next season.

Many of the Fritillary species which I enjoy photographing so much are becoming desperately rare in Britain now and it's often difficult just to find them let alone get a half decent shot!!

Landscapes

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:14:25 GMT

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Animals

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:11:49 GMT

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Plants and Flowers

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:32:44 GMT

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