Run down and cracking up… I jest but I have had a few days in bed with a nasty bout of gastro-enteritis, hence my lack of any activity this week. I’ll hopefully be back in action with plenty of photos next week. Now I just need to summon up some energy to drink my tea …
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Some Impressions of the Contax G2
So what is this? I’m providing some impressions of a camera launched in 1996 which ceased production in 2005? Am I mad? Hopefully not! I decided more and more that I liked the film-like quality you get from the Fuji X-trans cameras and from the Leica M9. The thought occurred to me that I ought …
City in Neon
I thought of focusing on neon lighting and displays a while back when I watched a really great film from Philip Bloom, the DSLR film maker, called “24 Hours of Neon”: 24 Hours of Neon from Philip Bloom on Vimeo. The film is about Las Vegas, but walking around the City after dark there is …
Bentley S1
The Bentley S was a luxury car produced by Bentley Motors Limited from 1955 until 1959. In my recent visit to Westminster I discovered one sitting outside Westminster Abbey. This was Bentley (and Rolls-Royce)’s first true complete redesign of their standard production car after World War II and their last standard production car with an …
Westminster
Seeing as a fiery ball in the sky had appeared again and I had time to pop out at lunchtime, I headed over to take a look at Westminster Abbey. Before getting there I came across a saxophonist in the subway and then headed over via Parliament Square. The Collegiate Church of St Peter at …
“Clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop”
“A walk through a farm” is guaranteed to have UK based readers think of a straw chewing farmer shouting “GET OFF MY LAND”. However, that is of course a fictional stereotype. Most farmers aren’t like the stereotype and most are familiar with the many rights of way that dot the British countryside (and particularly so …
Chancery lane and Lincoln’s Inn
I had some time at lunch to pop out to Chancery Lane with my X-Pro1 and 14mm. It’s somewhere I’ve been occasionally with work but I’ve never just wandered through with a camera before. Unfortunately the sun was in and out and many of these have high dynamic range. However, they are all a little …
A short walk down the Embankment
Last night I watched a programme about the history of the Thames and its bridges. One of the topics was the Embankment. The Thames Embankment is a major feat of 19th century civil engineering designed to reclaim marshy land next to the River Thames in central London. There had been a long history of failed …
Panasonic GX1 and Infrared
Just before Christmas I came across a lightning deal on Amazon.co.uk on the Panasonic GX1 for £250. This is a funny old one – you are probably asking yourself why I need another camera (in retrospect, so was I). Well, I was curious about the GX1, having owned the E-P3 (a roughly contemporary camera) and …
Let it snow (again)
OK, so I take back my suggestion that it wouldn’t snow! Icing sugar at present but it doesn’t seem to be stopping… Taken with my GH3 and 12-35mm lens Update: having finally worked out how to export videos from Lightroom, here is a video of the snowfall complete with authentic noises of shivering in the …
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