You no see me (teehee)

Click to enlarge. I rose yesterday morning with no trace of the hangover that might have been expected given the excesses of the previous evening. The morning scales reading (net weight, pre-breakfast) was also unexpectedly low, but despite the lack of any immediate requirement to try to lose weight,  I resolved to run on the…

Back in the warm south thankfully.  Here are a few photographs of the area immediately around our place in the Southern part of the Cape peninsula.         It’s late summer here, a lovely time when the winds ease, and the days are long and languid.  This year I only brought the little…

Back again after a longish hiatus (explained below), with shots that capture the emotional scene of Mandela’s funeral, last December in Cape Town.     Apologies for yet another extended and unexplained absence. This time, travel plus a slight diversion into alternative sources of photo publishing has been the reason.  In the last few months…

I had so much fun with my Sony Nex-5 plus old Nikkor lenses that I started to look for old Nikkors on eBay. To check which were the best ones for image quality and bokeh etc, I looked for sources of advice and reviews on the web. The self-styled ‘most widely read photo site on…

Today’s photo:Pont Alexandre III. A long exposure shot of the Seine at the Pont Alexandre III, a wonderfully ornate bridge over the Seine by the Grand Palais in Paris. I liked the way that the low evening sun lit up the gilded parts of the bridge and the statue on the far side. Taken with…

On to Mandalay – with some street shots of market traders and world rulers, plus the wonderful U-Bein Bridge         We had heard mixed reviews of Mandalay, and we left the city with mixed feelings. One thing is for certain – it is not the exotic and romantic spot immortalized by Kipling. …