2024 · 31 December 2030
📌📌 PRE-AMBLE: This journal contains the scribbles of a walkabout photographer with a snapshot style. This pinned entry provides an introduction to the journal and also explains all the different ways you can access it to make it easier to find things, so click in to learn more. Alternatively simply scroll through the entries below and have fun exploring their content.
2024 · 27 April 2024
The Watercress Line Spring Steam Gala 2024 with guest locomotives LMS Jubilee Class ‘Leander’ no. 45690, ‘Battle of Britain’ Class ‘Manston’ no. 34070 and ‘Lambton’ Tank no. 29. Smoke, steam, nostalgia and one of the locomotives an uncleaned and filthy dirty disappointment.
2023 · 15 November 2023
Wandering about in the woods with my M.Zuiko 12-45mm f4 Pro 'standard' zoom catching a mostly wider view of the forest glades after the recent storms as Autumn marches relentlessly onwards.
2023 · 06 November 2023
My f4 pro zoom triumvirate is just made for adventures with my OM-5 and is the ultimate travel troika. However, sometimes my little f4-5.6 14-150mm II super zoom, though a big compromise, is simply enough.
2023 · 01 November 2023
It's the first of November and actual Autumn is now with us with the deciduous trees around our way undergoing their annual transmogrification. Time to get the camera out once more for the seasonal photo colour fest.
2023 · 29 October 2023
The blues and azures of water in ethereal light. Bubbles bursting through liquid yet trapped seemingly eternally in time. The glassmaker's art caught on camera.
2023 · 28 October 2023
There are, typically, three types of light used in macro photography; daylight, continuous artificial light and flashlight, so called 'macro flash'. So what are the advantages of using macro flash over the others?
2023 · 13 October 2023
A lens with soul, drawing with my Olympus M.Zuiko 12mm f2 a lovely fast wide angle optic for MFT cameras.
2023 · 10 October 2023
It must have been about a year ago when I dumped my 'flagship' OM System Olympus OM-1 for then newly released 'mid-range' OM System OM-5 to howls of derision by my photog pals who didn't think much of me clinging to small sensor photography in the first place let alone 'downgrading' to a 'lessor' (but importantly more portable) camera in that format to boot. But, a year on, do I feel I was I right to do so?
2023 · 09 October 2023
There are times for primes; when only fast glass will do. Big element beauties of superior iQ, premium primes.