Today we went to Playhatch, near Reading, to meet up with my parents. They live in Wales about 3 hours drive away so, given our use of Skype, I’m pretty convinced that our son Daniel thinks my parents are characters in a computer game… In any event it was lovely to catch up. As ever …
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A couple of classic cars (and the end of a week) with the NEX-7
I had intended to take the NEX-7 to somewhere spectacular at lunchtime, to finish my rediscovery of it, but it has bucketed down with rain all day in London today. As close as I could get was the two classic cars parked over the road from my office (which were advertising a classic car rental …
Nex-7 and Firmware 1.01 – an end to UWA magenta cast?
Some of you may have seen my other blog post about the NEX-7 this week in which I finished by saying that I found too many niggles with it to want to use it. In particular I found the problems with WA lenses (magenta cast and soft/smeared corners) and the video button incredibly irritating. I …
Steve Huff Daily Inspirations
I am very excited today because I managed to get a post of some of the pictures I took when we were in Norfolk onto the photography blogger Steve Huff’s website (http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/). I know some may be “Steve who?” but he gets a couple of million hits a year on his website (which is worth …
The people of the Millennium Bridge
Just some fun on the way too and from the Tate Modern with some characters who cropped up on and around the Millenium (formerly wobbly) bridge in London. Central line at St Pauls: Some friendly advertising for tourism in Rhodes: Bird song man plays: Bank robber Shrek: Nut seller: Street music: Bird song man under …
Tate Modern Turbine Hall – These associations
This week I visited the Tate Modern. The former Bankside Power Station was selected as a new gallery site by the Tate trustees in 1994. The iconic power station, built in two phases between 1947 and 1963, was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. In 1996 the design plans were unveiled and the site was …
Nighttime photography with the Panasonic G5
I’ll be honest, I was expecting this to be a “aha, I’ve discovered the G5 is significantly worse than the E-M5 piece”. The summary is that it isn’t as good at high ISO, but that it is good enough for real world use for most purposes (and is certainly much better than cameras with the …
A lunchtime with my Olympus E-P3
Having been impressed with the quality it was possible to achieve with my E-P3 over the weekend I decided to take it out this lunchtime instead of my G5. My overall thoughts now are that it was a bit of a mistake. Partly because I messed up my settings and I am frustrated at losing …
Autumn flowers
It feels like the garden is about ready to dump its leaves and die back for another year. In the meantime, the rather wonderful purple flowers in one of our borders deserve a post. Olympus E-P3 and Panasonic 20mm lens
Good Morning Daddy!
This may explain why I am so tired now… A spontaneous portrait of my son with my Olympus E-P3 and Panasonic 20mm lens
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