I recall a young law student, later trainee solicitor, who lived in a “dodgy” flat in Highbury (actually next to Canonbury, then British Rail now Overground, Station), with about 52,000 other people… OK I exaggerate, but it felt like that on occasion. In 2000 I was looking for a place to live and hooked up …
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A guy, a girl and a dinosaur…
I should start by saying that I’m a cynical so and so and I regularly shake my head at the seeming madness of modern life. This week I (unintentionally) became part of a story that heartened me and cheered me up no end. The background So, to rewind, back in October I took some days …
Impressions of the Fujinon XF 18-55mm F2.8-4 lens
This is a very good lens and should be in any self respecting Fuji X-Pro1 or X-E1 owners bag. It feels solid and is very well screwed together. I’ve had rubbish weather to test out this lens and I’m upset I cannot replicate the very bright conditions on Sunday when I first road tested the …
Fujifilm XF 18-55mm – first use
WOW. They don’t make zooms this sharp do they? The results are beautiful. If they are Fujifilm, yes they do. This seems to be a stunning zoom. To think it is the kit for the XE1 leaves me scratching my head in wonder. This lens is about as far from a “kit” zoom as you …
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 …
The Lightmills of Leadenhall
I was in Leadenhall Market grabbing my lunch this week and I wandered over to the market stalls under the cupola. I had seen one particular stall before selling what I thought was glass ornaments. When I looked at them I realised they were Lightmills, otherwise known as a Crookes radiometer, which consists of an …
iPhone 5 vs X-Pro1
This is an immensely silly post motivated by no more than having some fun. Of course the iPhone will be worse than a camera with an APS-C sensor, it has a sensor about the size of a grain of rice… Nevertheless this is a fun comparison to show people why a real camera is worthwhile …
Christ Church Spitalfields
Yesterday, inspired by my walk past it the other day, I popped into Christ Church Spitalfields, the magnificent Church next to Spitalfields market. Christ Church was built under the Act of Parliament of 1711 which required the building of fifty new churches to serve the new populations on the fringes of London. The Act established …
Spitalfields Market
Today at lunchtime I walked through the churchyard of St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate and then on to Spitalfields. Old Spitalfields Market is a covered market in Spitalfields, just outside the City of London. There has been a market on the site since 1638 when Charles I of England gave a licence for flesh, fowl and roots to …
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