Author Archives: sgoldswo

“Clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop”

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“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

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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

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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

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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)

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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 …

Bankside Walk

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The weather is terrible today. We’ve all been going stir crazy with the never ending rain. I’m not expecting much in the way of the forecast snow tonight… In any event, in the absence of any possibility whatsoever of taking photos, here are some shots from a walk down Bankside after our visit to the …

The view from the top…

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Today, I took my family to the Shard, London’s tallest building, to visit the new viewing platform that has opened (called “the view from the Shard”). The Shard is a 95-storey skyscraper in London. Its construction began in March 2009; it was topped out on 30 March 2012 and inaugurated on 5 July 2012. Standing …

Chinatown

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So, I did it again for the first time in 18 months. I facepalmed repeatedly once I realised what I had done, but there was little I could do about it. What had I done? The dread of any RAW photographer, I left the camera in jpeg only mode by mistake! I had been taking …

Leica ME – Sarah Lee

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I came across this piece from Sarah Lee in the Guardian about her purchase of a Leica ME. I couldn’t help but applaud the piece and wonder at the negativity of the comments on it. Some people really are morons. Thankfully Sarah seems not to be one and her photos with the ME are stunning. …