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Putting out the Crab pots: X-E1 and Zeiss Touit 32mm

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I’ve been on my holidays this last week, in the village of Overstrand in North Norfolk. It’s really lovely here, and the scorching weather has helped make this into a special holiday. In any event I couldn’t really hold myself back from posting about watching the local fishing boat being towed to the edge of …

X-Pro1 and Zeiss Touit 12mm

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I had one of those nice experiences today when a chap rushed up to me to ask me what kind of camera my X-Pro1 was and what kind of lens I had mounted. I could sense general confusion – it looks like a rangefinder but it has a zeiss lens and an APS-C sensor. He …

Justice for Becky Reed

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Yesterday I went along to a picnic in support of a healthcare professional facing charges from her regulatory body (and I took some cameras along). I will confess that the last three years have been an education. Not just the joy (and tribulations) of becoming a parent but also having some of your strongest beliefs …

The Giant Rat in the City

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A few times more recently I’ve been confronted with a Giant inflatable Rat on my walks around the City. This is down to one of the more bitter industrial disputes of recent years and relates back to one of Europe’s largest engineering projects, Crossrail. UNITE, one of the UK’s largest trade unions, claims that the …

Splash

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More today from the the X-E1 and the Zeiss Touit 32mm. It’s just a really lovely combination, small yet powerful in image quality. This lunchtime was awful weather in some ways, but perfect for photography too. Bright, diffuse light allowing shutter speeds outside in excess of 1/1000. However, that meant a lot of clouds too! …

Touit to-woo

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Cheesy title I know, but bizarrely enough I found myself testing out my Zeiss Touit lenses at Hall Place, a stunning Tudor House and Gardens between Crayford and Bexleyheath and found a great display of display of owls… The house dates back to around 1540 when wealthy merchant Sir John Champneys, a former Lord Mayor …

Kew Gardens with my RX1 and D800E in combination

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This weekend I visited Kew Gardens in south west London. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew are a series of gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and Kew in Richmond upon Thames. It’s a botanical research and education institution with 700 staff as well as a visitor attraction receiving almost two million visits a year. The …

World’s Largest LEGO Model

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This is absolutely fantastic – I love Lego (it’s been amazing playing with it again with my son) but particularly love mad creations like this. James May did something similar on TV a few years back. I remember visiting the Lego world map on London’s South Bank last summer and being bowled over by its …

Vroom, vroom with the RX1

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Sorry, couldn’t resist! This bank holiday weekend we visited the Enfield Pageant of Motoring, one of London’s biggest classic motor shows. It was great fun, although the autojumble did appear to be old bits of car on various market stalls… I jest. The Pageant has been a feature of Enfield life ever since 1978, when …