“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.
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. …
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: Another long exposure shot taken at Shoeburyness on my on my exciting Southend weekend last year. Shoeburyness used to be a major military barracks and defensive area, and as a result there are a lot of mysterious and derelict structures out in the sea that make fertile ground for LE photographers. Thanks to…
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…
” Click photo to enlarge – back button to return. Taken on the shoreline facing Butterworth, in Penang. This was quite a tricky shot – the jetty was fantastically unstable, and behind me, at the end of the run, there was a rabid barking dog, which I later had to fend off with the tripod…
Today’s picture. Taken at about 8:30am on Noordhoek beach before the arrival of many children. There are a few things restricting my shots currently. The wind is very strong at the moment, but the skies are clear. Sand blowing off the beach has a pretty abrasive effect on camera lenses, so its important to stay…
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