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Backlog: December 2019
Thursday 2nd of February 2023
Finally, the last month of 2019! As with the previous month, finding pictures wasn’t actually a struggle for a change; in fact I had to be quite selective to reduce the choice to just these ones. Even so, three of them are from the same morning fog adventure, and two are pictures I’d previously not really paid much attention to. It’s interesting what a fresh pair of eyes can reveal. This image is …
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Backlog: November 2019
Tuesday 31st of January 2023
Autumn and early winter are probably my favourite times of year for photography, which is hardly surprising as it means glorious light available at readily accessible times of the day, as well as trees displaying a wonderful variety of colours. autumn trees in the caravan park bright yellow and orange leaves It’s also wetter, naturally, and this is good for urban photography. It’s a common filmmak…
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Backlog: October 2019
Tuesday 10th of January 2023
October is Emily’s birthday, and also when Interesting Things start happening to the trees and sunlight. Emily in her birthday dress at my parents’ house petals fallen from a potted plant A bit more variety this month, with trips to Lowestoft and Yarmouth and of course the usual walks along the seafront. rusty chain with circle patterns scraped on its anchor I find abandoned shops fascinating, and…
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Backlog: September 2019
Tuesday 3rd of January 2023
This was a strange one. When I adjusted my saved search filter in Capture One to show this month’s pictures, and saw over 500 of them, I was surprised and quite pleased. Perhaps this month I’d have to struggle to narrow down my choice to a reasonable amount of pictures? Nope. Turns out the vast majority of them are pictures of Emily. Don’t get me wrong, they’re adorable, because she’s adorable, bu…
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Backlock: July 2019
Monday 19th of December 2022
It’s beginning to look like the whole of summer of 2019 was when I mostly gave up trying very hard to produce artistically relevant photos. I took plenty of pictures – 286 if Capture One’s count is accurate – but probably 85% of them are just of Emily or other family members, and are only really interesting to me and other family members. Still, lack of artistically relevant pictures is only real…
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Backlog: June 2018
Monday 19th of December 2022
Well, if I thought last month’s backlog was thin, this one was even worse. We went on just one outing, to Dunwich Forest, but other than that it was just shopping trips to Lowestoft, solo walking along the beach, and the usual pictures of Emily. As for said trip to Dunwich, well, it wasn’t terribly productive, photographically speaking, but Em enjoyed it and we had a nice picnic, so all in all it …
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Backlog: May 2019
Thursday 8th of December 2022
Yeesh! If I thought last month was photographically sparse, this month was even worse. It appears I only took about 170 pictures across the entire month, and big chunks of those were just minor variations on a single subject – in effect I only had about 5 ‘sessions’ to pick from. First up, attempts at self-portraits with a 21mm-e lens. Very natural, I’m sure you’ll agree. Albeit not focused on the…
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Backlog: April 2019
Tuesday 6th of December 2022
Apart from a couple of outings specifically done for photography reasons, this month’s output was pretty limited, consisting mostly of pictures of Emily and Zoe. As far as I can remember, this will be a common theme for much of 2019, but hopefully there’ll be enough material to keep this series going. Emily standing on a chair, in a sunbeam On the plus side, the fewer pictures I have to select fro…
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Backlog: March 2019
Friday 25th of November 2022
Looking through my photo library, pictures from this month are mostly of Zoe and Emily – it seems I didn’t get out to do anything else very much. Still, you can never have enough pictures of your wife and daughter, so I’m not complaining :) Even now, almost 4 years on, Em still loves going on the swings. Emily on a swing One of the few times I did go out and, more importantly, come back with worth…
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Backlog: February 2019
Thursday 24th of November 2022
More fog this month, this time on a morning walk around Lound Lakes. While preparing the images for this post, I was inspired by a video I recently watched about the Hassleblad X-Pan/Fujifuilm TX-1, so decided to try cropping the images to that camera’s super wide 65×24 (1:2.7) aspect ratio. It’s certainly a challenge trying to find images to fit, as obviously none of them were shot with this in…
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Backlog: January 2019
Sunday 13th of November 2022
January, like the previous month , was quite sparse, photographically. I don’t recall why, exactly – perhaps it was the work involved in bringing up a 1-year-old, perhaps it was just the weather wasn’t especially cooperative most of the time. Or perhaps I was just lazy? Still, grey, overcast and dull weather can make for worthwhile photos if you approach it with a positive attitude. Lowestoft bea…
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Backlog: December 2018
Saturday 5th of November 2022
December is when winter really get stuck in, and offers frequent displays of soft, low sun. Despite this photographic bounty, December was a surprisingly low-output month for me; perhaps looking after a 1-year-old child took its toll. early afternoon on Coast Road It’s also a time of wrapping up warm when out and about. shoppers at Norwich market Emily wrapped up warm doing a superhero pose The lo…
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Backlog: October 2018
Sunday 16th of October 2022
It’s a little odd, writing this backlog post 4 years after the pictures were taken. At the time, I obviously had no idea what was to come: just a couple of years later, both my parents would die, only months apart, and then shortly after that, Zoe’s mum would also pass away. These pictures are from a much happier time. It was Em’s first birthday, for one thing, and although she was obviously too y…
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Exploring the 7Artisans 25mm f/1.8
Saturday 15th of February 2020
About 2 months ago, I got the 7Artisans 25mm f/1.8 lens as a Christmas present from my wife. I’d been eyeing it up for a while, wondering if a fully manual lens would really be my thing. Considering I already own the two Fuji 23mm lenses (so more or less the same focal length), I wasn’t sure I really needed it. This is a remarkably inexpensive lens though: £79 from Amazon UK, so even if I didn’t r…
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Backlog: August 2018
Saturday 7th of September 2019
After the heatwave of the previous month, it was nice to enjoy more normal (for England) summer temperatures. One of the best things about our new house is how close it is to the sea; there’s a nice thirty-minute little circuit I can do daily on my lunch break to help clear my mind and get some exercise. drain in the sea wall My parents were also getting well settled into their new bungalow a shor…
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