I went down to the West End early – before I was due at a book launch for a friend – and indulged in some unaccustomed ‘street photography’ before the start of the event. It required some readjustment, with all […]
Read MoreI woke up early this morning and rather than trying to get back to sleep realised that I felt good and that I should seize the day! I got out of bed and went down to Primrose Hill as dawn […]
Read MoreI was asked before Christmas by a friend and neighbour whether I would test her 1970’s Nikon FM2 camera. I agreed but have only just got around to it. The final stimulus to getting started was finding an old, heavy […]
Read MoreI got up this morning half expecting a blanket of snow, so was slightly disappointed when I opened the curtains and found nothing but grey and damp. I got on with whatever work I had to do and gave the […]
Read MoreThe snow has a wonderful way of making the familiar unfamiliar, and I took time out on all three days during the recent cold snap to get out and about. On the first day I didn’t get far, but the […]
Read MoreI’ve been looking back through my Lightroom catalogue for possible competition entries for a ‘The Glory of Trees’ challenge on my camera clubs website. A couple of these have been posted before, either on thefiddlersriddle, or on Facebook, but some […]
Read MoreI made my way up to Great Titchfield Street today to see an exhibition of work from the 50’s and 60’s by Franziska Themerson, the aunt of my friend Jasia Reichardt. I was caught in an absolute deluge of a […]
Read MoreI went out onto the Heath yesterday. It is a year on from my last dragonfly shots, and decided at the last minute to restrict myself to dragonflies as I don’t have as much free time to devote to this […]
Read MoreI went out onto the Heath on election day to free my mind of party politics. I took quite a few shots, having found a heron, and a parakeet, amongst other things, but this picture was a keeperI found the […]
Read MoreIt’s been a long while since I lasted posted here, and this hasn’t been the easiest winter for me to get out and about. At the back end of last year I managed to get a very wide angle zoom […]
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