At last an end to aching backside caused by 90 minutes sitting on rock-hard pew at St Martin in the Fields misery. St Martin in the Fields (on Trafalgar Square) is a little gem for those with an hour to spare at lunchtime on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays. It has an illustrious history, and for…
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…
[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,…
Roger Ebert, the celebrated Chicago Sun-Times film critic and general good egg, recently won a New Yorker caption competition after 107 attempts spread over many years. He wrote a nicely dry column for the Guardian about it, which in the Web version, omits the actual cartoons. Ebert’s quest to win a competition is also covered…
An interesting quandary in the otherwise very certain moral world of the followers of Harold Camping, was described in a wonderfully deadpan way in a recent Business Week article. The followers of Harold Camping are of course the people who believed the world was going to end starting at 6.00 pm on 21 May in…
After half a lifetime of coming to France from the UK, I am still surprised how two countries 21 miles away at their closest point can be so profoundly different. As time has gone by I still find as many examples of differences as I do of homogenization. Jazzelerault 2011 is a classic case in…
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