Category Archives: autumn

42 Days

  Once upon a time the best way to travel from one centre of power to another was by boat.  Of course this was before there was such a thing as Scotland or England but rather smaller kingdoms, in this … Continue reading →

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43 Days

I know I should be working on the Scottish images but it wa just too tempting this morning so I had to get out and enjoy another beautiful dawn over my local river.   Brexit related?  Not a bit of it … Continue reading →

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44 Days

I’ve spent the weekend in and around the Scottish capital Edinburgh to take a break from everything and relax.   Overall it succeeded even if it reinforced my hatred of the A1 to Newcastle upon Tyne – afterwards it is a … Continue reading →

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Goodbye to the Memphis Bell

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20 things you never knew about the Sony A7 Mk 2

I really do apologise for the crap clickbait title to this blog…I must try better.  Anyway the real point of this post is that it is just over one year since I bought my almost new A7 Mk 2 and … Continue reading →

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Winter is here!

  Last week I wrote a post about the last images of Autumn I would make.  Unfortunately whether it was the onset of senility or stupidity I thought that the end of November was last Sunday!   However almost as soon … Continue reading →

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Goodbye to another autumn…

Well that was the autumn that was.   For me autumn ends on the last day of November so I spent this afternoon trying to capture a few images to celebrate(?) the end of another autumn.   Now for the hard grind … Continue reading →

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Learning an old curve….

  So the reeducation continues as I slowly learn what I can and can’t achieve with the nifty fifty.  Teaching an old dog old tricks that it had forgotten so many years ago!

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Nifty Fifty…

Well I’ve gone all retro or retrograde – only time will tell.   I’ve just bought myself a 50mm f1.8 lens.   It is the first time I’ve owned such a creature for the best part of 40 years.   I took it … Continue reading →

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Another Milestone…

Milestones and anniversaries seem to be coming thick and fast for me at the moment.   Yesterday I celebrated my first 10k images taken with my Sony A7 Mk2.   Not much of a milestone I guess but not bad going since … Continue reading →

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