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…
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…
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…
A musing on the process of taking and then showing photographs, and a partial explanation on why I have been somewhat absent in recent weeks. Note – if at any time you just want to see some photographs instead of reading the post – click the big Flickr logo above, or this…
My recent adventures with the world’s only phone capable of taking RAW images. How does it stack up against a ‘real’ camera? Earlier this year, M*rk sent me this link from the New Yorker. The basic message was that the smart phone, or specifically the iPhone 5 had now replaced even top…
Back in the Water Gardens in time for the Spring Blossom – one very fine reason to be back in England. The Japanese gardens where we live are at their best at this time of year, but they have been a photographic challenge for me ever since we arrived. At the…
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