“A vacation is an occasional pleasure but a Ducatos is always a smoke”. A rough smoke, agreed, but at least it’s handy. Taken outside CentroCentro, Madrid, with credit to Rudyard Kipling for his (no longer PC) original line.
Waiting for the taxi OK. This might be a bit messy, but this is the start of an experiment to put a daily or at least fairly frequent photo on the site, using only mobile devices. So this shot was taken on my little Olympus Pen E-P5, then wirelessly transferred to my very neat Lenovo…
Today’s photo: Blue and Gold. A long exposure shot taken near Simonstown in the Cape Peninsula, as the rising morning sun illuminated the jagged sandstones of the False Bay coast. A further by product of my endless (and so far unsuccessful) attempts to capture effectively the sun rising behind the False Bay lighthouse. These attempts…
” Today’s photo:Gironde Carrelet at dusk. An evening long exposure shot around sunset, of one of the iconic fishing jetties, or ‘Carrelets’ on the banks of the Gironde. This lovely river flows into Bordeaux, and flanks some of the most famous locations in French wine. It is also home to little fish, rather like Whitebait,…
The scene on Noordhoek Beach 20 minutes after sunset, looking away from the sea. No good sunset last night but a nice view back to the village. The lights on the right hand side are 6km away, at the other end of Long Beach, or which Noordhoek beach is the North western part. A…
London life from April this year – shot round Soho and Waterloo No question I am severely behind on this site. I thought I had published these back in May, but on rootling around, I noticed they were still sitting here in draft form. So now they get published although they they have been…
Today’s photo:Low light under the bridge. An early evening shot, with light coming in almost horizontally into the arches of London’s Blackfriar’s railway bridge, with the piers of the old bridge showing on the left. This was the first LE shot with my new D750, taken in February 2015. It was a 4 minute shot,…
