I came across this posted elsewhere but it blew my mind so I had to post it here. It’s a film recorded in 1927 by an early pioneer of colour film techniques (Claude Friese-Greene) (using B&W film and colour filters to generate a colour effect). It was restored by the British Film Institute recently. The …
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Green Park greys
No, this isn’t a feature on the North American squirrels that seem to inhabit every inch of London’s green space, rather a trip to Green Park in the extreme grey weather we had yesterday. However, you could tell this was London, given that people were out and about in deck chairs and generally lounging about …
Zoo
We had intended to visit Colchester Zoo for our son’s birthday. Unfortunately, the last week he has had Chickenpox and hasn’t felt great – his birthday this week was no exception. Poor little chap – I don’t think he knew what had hit him. In the end we decided to try and go on Saturday …
Clarity
Which is something I’m searching for at the minute. I hadn’t intended to like the RX1 so much, it was intended to be more of a review and debunk purchase followed by a rapid transition to eBay. What I hadn’t expected was how much I would like it and the images it makes. In any …
Oil Seed Rape and the Sony RX1
A bit of a random title, I will admit! This post is inspired by the fact that it feels like the countryside around where I live has turned yellow. The bright yellow flowers of oilseed rape have become a familiar sight across UK farmland in recent years. I remember it being grown in Oxfordshire in the …
Trafalgar Square, Sun, D800E – the perfect combination?
Not really – Trafalgar square in the sun has beaten the dynamic range (DR) of too many cameras I’ve previously owned. So think of this as more of a torture test. I think the last time I visited I was testing the DR expansion function on my X-Pro1 and was amazed at how impossible it …
Perspectives on the City
I’ve had a funny old time taking pictures this last week. I’m conscious that lots of natural light (probably too much) and being able to call on two excellent cameras in the form of the X-Pro1 (largely with the 14mm lens permanently mounted) and the X100S has meant I’ve become somewhat more focused on buildings, …
A segue into something a bit bigger…
My D600 bit the dust. It was unfortunate, because I liked it, but the bracket mode fault I reported in my mini-review didn’t go away and in the end it was almost permanently stuck in bracket mode. I decided it was time to send it back to the shop and at the same time consider …
St George’s Day at Leadenhall Market
I would like to start this post by saying thank you (as a Welshman) to all my English friends for the kind wishes they’ve given me over the years on Wales’ national day, “St Patrick’s Day”, nuff said… 😉 I jest but I’ve never understood how it has ended up that the national day of …
Apparently there was a small family funeral today in London…
I got up today intending to go to Fleet Street and St Pauls to take photos of the funeral cortege of Mrs Thatcher and the related supporters and protesters. I packed my X100S and GH3 last night. On the train to work today, I decided it just didn’t feel right to head down all cameras …
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