Reach for the skies

A week or two ago I ventured to the RAF Museum in Colindale, North London, with my son (nearly 3). At the time he was dead against the idea of going to a “zeum” (museum), so I explained we were going to see planes at the “airport”. He was quite excited about this, so we …

Panasonic GX1 and Infrared

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 …

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

In praise of in body image stabilisation

I genuinely cannot believe I took this shot with the so called “crippled” sensor Olympus E-P3 but the different it makes having image stabilisation is out of this world (even versus cameras like the X100). Yes, the E-M5 has better everything (stabilisation, dynamic range, high ISO, resolution) but the E-P3 is still a good camera. …

Travelling at a snail’s pace

I was doing the washing up when I looked up to see this fella on his was across the kitchen windows. All I had to hand was my E-P3 with the Panny 20mm mounted. I kind of like the result even though the edges of the snail blur away.

An introduction: After the occupation

Hello all. This is my first blog post, the aim being to find an outlet other than Facebook and other websites for my photos! These are some photos of Finsbury square in London, immediately following the removal of the Occupy London protest that had been there for many months. I was pleased to see the …