The Emirates Air Line is a cable car link across the River Thames that opened just before the London Olympics. I’ll confess I knew nothing about this Cable Car over the Thames before I saw a piece on the TV news about it when it opened. I was confused as to what it was and …

I wandered past Somerset House earlier in the week, curious to see the Cartier-Bresson exhibition there. Somerset House is 18th and 19th century building just off the Strand that was originally used as a government and later tax office. These days it is a major arts and cultural centre. During winter you can skate there. …

That’ll probably do at this time of night… Update 01 January 2013: a shot straight across a field into the sun seems appropriate on New Years Day even if it is covered in flare because I had left my filters at home. Taken with my X-Pro1 and 18-55mm lens and processed in Capture One.

It’s that time of year again and as ever its always a good time to take pictures of family near and far. This year we went to Wales to visit my family for Christmas. The journey was fine except for Reading Services being flooded and similarly the stretch of road near the bridge under the …

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone! I’ve been spending Christmas with the family in Wales and have only just got around to processing some of the pictures I took of where I grew up and went to Secondary School in Cowbridge, South Wales. My family moved to Penllyn, near Cowbridge, in 1989 …

Southerndown is a village on the coast of South Wales. It is known for its beach, Dunraven Bay. The cliffs are an obvious example of sedimentary rock, being made up of layers of carboniferous limestone and shale. As Southerndown is a west-facing beach, off-shore winds from the East generate much good-quality surf, helped by the …

I have decided I really like this lens. Me really liking it doesn’t mean it is the holy grail, or that it’s sharper than lenses like the 75mm. It’s just a really nice lens for the focal length. Today I took the lens and my E-M5 to Borough Market in Southwark, South London. The present …

So this is the new 17mm (34mm equivalent) lens from Olympus. Obviously Oly had a previous 17mm lens (the 17mm F2.8 pancake). It was a slow lens with soft corners, but was the only option for a 35mm equivalent. Panasonic released a 20mm F1.7 pancake that is excellent and very sharp in the centre but …

I wanted to write a post about childbirth. Not the easiest or most popular of topics, I realise and a bit different from my usual diet of photography, camera and lens reviews. Yesterday an article was published in The Observer, a Sunday newspaper in the UK. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/dec/16/mothers-fighting-against-birth-intervention It was all about the way birth is …