2024 · 31 December 2030
📌📌 PRE-AMBLE: This journal contains the scribbles of a walkabout photographer with a snapshot style. This pinned entry provides an introduction to the journal and also explains all the different ways you can access it to make it easier to find things, so click in to learn more. Alternatively simply scroll through the entries below and have fun exploring their content.
2024 · 20 December 2024
Thomas Carlyle once stated that economics was "the dismal science" and we seem to be in the hands of a bunch of "economists" currently whose performance is pitifully and disgracefully bad, i.e dismal; or dismal like a long spell of cold, dreary Winter's days maybe? Dark times!
2024 · 21 November 2024
Despite the continued development of zoom lenses and the optical marvels they have become with the advancement in glass technology, CAD design and firmware correction of aberrations, to provide high performance, faster aperture optics, there comes a time when only that life long friend the fast prime lens will do.
2024 · 13 October 2024
I have just acquired a second Nikon F80D 35mm film camera body, this time in silver finish to sit along side my black finish one. Why? Well read on to find out more...
2024 · 04 September 2024
Views in the garden; wandering about snapping a few photos in harsh sunlight using 35mm film with a high dynamic range, CineStill 400D. Great fun.
2024 · 01 September 2024
On a bright though cloudy day I visited box hill the summit of the North Downs in Surrey, approximately 19 miles south-west of London, the western part of which is owned and managed by the National Trust. Within their parkland there are a number of spectacular viewpoints, the highest being Betchworth Clump though that from Salomons Memorial, overlooking the town of Dorking, is the most popular.
2024 · 28 July 2024
One bright, sunny Sunday with The Watercress Line running a two steam locomotive service plus one diesel shunter making for a fab steam enthusiasts day out with some decent train snapping opportunities as ever as well.
2024 · 01 July 2024
Went for a brief sojourn in the beautiful countryside of the Meon Valley in Hampshire land managed by happenstance to choose the few days of the mini-heat wave we had during that week. Just my luck as it was just too darned hot to wander about for any length of time taking photos.
2024 · 25 May 2024
Last of the Rhododendrons for this year. Most of them are now blown and gone but there are a few late bloomers still hanging on though they too are showing signs of their imminent departure.
2024 · 18 May 2024
Iris Pseudacorus aka The Yellow Flag - another picture made whilst on my walkabout at LilyHill yesterday. Could not resist posting a few more images made with my OM-1 II and 40-150mm f4 Pro; the art of tele-zoom close-ups.