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So I felt like a walk…

Finding the envelope of any tool you might use is important.   Today I came close to finding the envelope of my new 85mm lens.  The only thing was the envelope I was hitting wasn’t the technical performance of the lens … Continue reading

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Wandering Around…

Rain rain go away come again another day… So the traditional nursery rhyme goes.   Today is the ‘another day‘ so it has given me chance to think a little about my new 85mm f1.8 lens.   I have to say I … Continue reading

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I keep missing this photo….

I really don’t know why but I keep missing this image from my recent trip to London…strange isn’t it?

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Suffering for my art….

  Joy of joys the pollen count is through the roof!   Breakout the asthma inhaler.  (I was going to say on steroids but of course the inhaler is a steroid so durrr!) .  The reason for all this suffering is … Continue reading

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Oh what a beautiful morning….

Not quite Oklahoma but it was nice to get out at dawn and take in the fresh air as the past few days have been grey overcast dawns. There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow…indeed there was

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Street Life…

  After bitching about the inadequacies of the iPhone I thought it might be useful to back this up with one or two images I have made over the years of the street life on the streets of London. Pulling … Continue reading

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Falling out of Love….

One or two of the people that might have been following this blog for sometime now will know that I have always loved using my iPhone, whichever I might own at the time, as a street photography camera.  Well after … Continue reading

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Life is like a box of donuts….

  Do I stay or do I go?   Not sure whether this blog will be closed down after all these years or not.   I am rethinking my whole engagement with social media in general and this blog in particular.  Do … Continue reading

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Back to some decent weather…

As with most things decent weather is a relative statement.   One person’s sunny day is another’s pollen hell.  The past week has been marked by a significant amount of rain which is what we have really needed for some time … Continue reading

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Housebound….

For reasons that are too boring to go into I am in effect housebound for the next few days.   Not to put too fine a point on it it is driving me and certainly my wife CRAZY.   Perhaps the most … Continue reading

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