Lorraine Parramore
Profile
Welcome to my colourful world…..so glad you could visit. I hope you enjoy looking at my photos as much as I enjoyed taking them.
I have recently returned to my homeland, England, after working for 6 years as an English teacher in Huatulco on the beautiful Oaxacan Pacific coast of Mexico. I love travelling, and I’ve always had a passion for looking at, and taking landscapes (Olympus OM1), but work commitments and horses distracted me for many years until 2003 when I bought my first digital camera, a Canon Powershot S1 IS, with which I learnt so much. Now landscape and nature, and currently abstract photography is my passion, and I changed to a DSLR Olympus E-510 two years ago. It came with two lenses, 14 – 42mm 3.5-5.6 and 40 – 150mm 4-5.6. The camera uses the 4:3 ratio system which gives good depth of field, and with x2 crop factor the telephoto lens seems more like 300mm!
I use Hoya circular polarising and neutral density filters, and Cokin graduated ND filters . I edit using Elements 7. Not forgetting a lightweight, very cheap tripod that’s easy to carry when hiking…saving for a carbon fibre one!
I only upload my best on RB but I also have many albums (nearly 700,000 views) featuring vacation/travel/experimental/memories photos on Webshots, here
Cheers, Lorraine
Groups
Lorraine Parramore hosts Light and Reflection 1/24 and is a member of "Mornings & Evenings -- Sunbeams & Storms" 1 photo per 24 hrs; 3 drawings or paintings per 24 hrs, "National Trust Properties" , "Streams & Stream Crossings" 2 posts a day!, **Phoenix Appeal**, *A Beautiful Blur, A Garden somewhere....., A Place To Call Home, Abstracts from Nature, All About Flowers, All About Water, Artistic Motion Blur, Beach Art, Black and White Photography, Blowing In The Wind, Bridges, Britain's Coastline, Colors of Water, Dawn and Dusk Light, Depth Of Field (2 images per day) - Read Group Rules Please, Devon and Cornwall. 2 a day please., Fabulous Flowers, Fine Art of Landscape Photography, Flower and Foliage DETAIL - 1 per day (24 hours), Friends of RedBubble, Going Coastal (2 art per day), Green!, Harbour Life, Heritage in Stone, Horizons, Human and Nature, In Another World .., Landscape and Abstract Photography, Landscape Photography, Made By Nature - {2 a day} - {Nature images only!}, Mood & Ambience - Strictly Photos, Natural Textures, Nature's Wonders, Olympus and Four Thirds Group, Photography 101, Photography Critique and Advice, Scotlands History, Selective Coloring, Shapes & Patterns - Limit of 2 images per day, Silhouette, Skyscapes, Smugglers Havens. 2 a Day Please., Sunrise, Sunset, The 500 to 5000 Viewings Group, The Birds, The Pony Club (no horseys over 14.2hh), The Scots are Coming, Top Shelf Wildlife & Nature Art, Trees - 2 images per day with trees as the focal point, UK National Parks, United Kingdom, Vibrant and Vivid Color, Waves and Which Way - walkways, pathways, stairways, and roadways.
Journal Entries
So excited and such fun!
Posted 9 months ago, 3 comments so far.
Featured photographer too!
Posted 10 months ago, 2 comments so far.
First feature of 2009!
Posted 10 months ago, 4 comments so far.
