That’s about the best I could come up with for the title of a piece dealing with my impressions of the Fujifilm X-T1. This is a flawed camera, with some gaping omissions and dropped balls, at the same time as being the best X series camera yet. Confused? I certainly was! I found my initial …
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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 …
Westminster
Seeing as a fiery ball in the sky had appeared again and I had time to pop out at lunchtime, I headed over to take a look at Westminster Abbey. Before getting there I came across a saxophonist in the subway and then headed over via Parliament Square. The Collegiate Church of St Peter at …
A short walk down the Embankment
Last night I watched a programme about the history of the Thames and its bridges. One of the topics was the Embankment. The Thames Embankment is a major feat of 19th century civil engineering designed to reclaim marshy land next to the River Thames in central London. There had been a long history of failed …
Bankside Walk
The weather is terrible today. We’ve all been going stir crazy with the never ending rain. I’m not expecting much in the way of the forecast snow tonight… In any event, in the absence of any possibility whatsoever of taking photos, here are some shots from a walk down Bankside after our visit to the …
The view from the top…
Today, I took my family to the Shard, London’s tallest building, to visit the new viewing platform that has opened (called “the view from the Shard”). The Shard is a 95-storey skyscraper in London. Its construction began in March 2009; it was topped out on 30 March 2012 and inaugurated on 5 July 2012. Standing …
Chinatown
So, I did it again for the first time in 18 months. I facepalmed repeatedly once I realised what I had done, but there was little I could do about it. What had I done? The dread of any RAW photographer, I left the camera in jpeg only mode by mistake! I had been taking …
Birthrights Launch (and some thoughts on flash photography)
Birthrights Launch Last night was the official launch of Birthrights, a UK organisation devoted to protecting human rights in childbirth. Birthrights is dedicated to improving women’s experience of pregnancy and childbirth by promoting respect for human rights. Birthrights believe that all women are entitled to respectful maternity care that protects their fundamental rights to dignity, …
Autumn at St Pauls
This lunchtime I wandered down to St Pauls with my X-Pro1. Perhaps it is because it has otherwise been so unrelelenting bad weather wise, but the colours of autumn have really cheered me up this year. I feel like I am stalking the city police horses! Honestly, they just seem to be around whenever I …
A visit to the Natural History Museum
I have been in love with London’s Natural History Museum in South Kensington ever since I was a small boy and I went on several school and family trips there. I developed a lifelong facination for Dinosaurs and other creatures as a result! Visiting it more recently, I began to appreciate the magnificent architecture of …
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