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As is my practice now, I only took my little Fuji F900EXR camera with me on our recent trip to Malaysia and Bali. I continue to be impressed with this tiny but powerful camera, and have recently been exploring what be done with a little further processing. Over the last 6 months or so, I…
Oh Shoeburyness, Shoeburyness – the greatest gift that I possess
Today’s photo: Another long exposure shot taken near Southend, UK, at Shoeburyness. Ah… Ken Dodd. The problem with being born in my era is that I cannot get the songs of Ken Dodd, or indeed Keynsham Bristol, that’s K.E.Y.N.S.H.A.M, out of my head. The latter was burned into my prefrontals while listening to Luxembourg on…
Myanmar – Mandalay
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. …
The pool
Click to see in full screen, back button to return to this page Today’s photograph: All along the False Bay coast of the Cape peninsula there are specially built sea pools, designed to keep kids safe from waves (and possibly sharks). This is one of the most elaborate, at Miller’s point, near Simonstown. I took…
Cape Town Photos Spring 2011
[singlepic id=2 w=534 h=400 float=left]This Spring in Cape Town I got back into serious photography after a lapse of many years. My focus in the last 10 years or so has been in compact cameras – following the incredible recent technology curve of sensors and lenses. My main interest was in capturing mountain panoramas,…
Photographing treks – a recording journey
Over my past 5 years or so of trekking, I have struggled with a way to represent the look and feel of the surroundings and the journeys. In such extraordinary surroundings, it seemed perverse not to make a record of what I saw. But the result was often hundreds of images, many of only marginal…