I had absolutely no idea I would have any time free today at all. My diary was packed with meetings which I was cursing because today was the day the world’s biggest cycling race rolled into town. One technical failure of a 3 hour video conference later and I set off with a couple of …
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Pit Crew
I started this blog by writing lots of posts about “stuff” happening in and around the City of London, where I work. Today offered the chance to write something similar. I had zero time for lunch today,but on the way back from a meeting in my old office on Appold St, I wandered through Finsbury …
What the hell?!?: Thoughts on the Sigma 50mm ƒ/1.4 Art lens
I was actually in two minds about getting this lens. I have too many 50mm lenses, although I did sell my Nikon 50mm F1.4 G earlier this year. This lens promised performance approaching that of the Zeiss Otus, which would be high praise indeed given the off the chart performance of the Zeiss. “Testing”* the …
London 1927 in Colour
I came across this posted elsewhere but it blew my mind so I had to post it here. It’s a film recorded in 1927 by an early pioneer of colour film techniques (Claude Friese-Greene) (using B&W film and colour filters to generate a colour effect). It was restored by the British Film Institute recently. The …
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 …
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