A pretty busy week. I’ve been working steadily on my second novel, a crime thriller set in a rundown town on the coast in North East England. I’ve also downloaded the photo editing software GIMP and am finding my way around it. GIMP’s open source and free to download, and I hear that it has many [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Busy With GIMP And Other Things
Posted in Photography, Writing, tagged GIMP, Open source, Photo editing software, Secrets by Lawrence Estrey on February 28, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Pictures In The Rain
Posted in Photography, tagged aperture priority, Highgate Wood, North London, photoshop elements on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve had a busy few days with little access to the internet. On Saturday afternoon, I went out in the rain with my camera and took a number of shots in Highgate Wood, North London, trying to protect the camera from getting a good soaking. I would have stayed longer and done more, but I [...]
More Snow…
Posted in Photography, tagged Highgate Wood, North London on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of shots taken late afternoon in Highgate Wood, North London:
Another Writing Sample
Posted in Writing, tagged crime thriller, psychological thriller on February 6, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I’m working on a new crime thriller set on the outskirts of Manchester and told through central character Wayne (12). The biggest challenge, I think, lies in the narrative style and getting it to reflect the age of the character. At the same time, the character, an only child, seems to have developed in ways that other [...]
Sun And Cold
Posted in Photography, tagged darlands lake, North London, totteridge on February 3, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I took several shots on the way to work yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately, I couldn’t carry my “proper” camera around with me in the middle of the day, but the camera on my smartphone enables some degree of control in regards to white balance, ISO and metering. Darlands Lake, Totteridge , North London:
New Month And Freezing Cold
Posted in Writing, tagged Character, crime thriller, google's picasa, plot, Secrets by Lawrence Estrey on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
First day of February, and the temperature has dipped. You can feel the chill against your bones, and apparently things will get worse at the weekend. Recently, I read through viewpoint sections of Dark Whispers, the first ever novel I wrote (the one I felt just didn’t come alive for me in the way I’d [...]




