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Fairground: closed for the evening
Saturday 27th of May 2017
I’d been sitting indoors all day playing Nier: Automata and was feeling a bit guilty about it, so I went out to get some fresh air and walk around a bit. I didn’t really have anything particular in mind, but decided on Lowestoft seafront as it’s close by and I could hopefully get some good pictures before the sky went fully dark. Turns out the fair’s in town, although at this time of the day it’…
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Telephoto Oulton Broad
Thursday 11th of May 2017
I’ve had an old Pentax-M 135mm f/3.5 for a while now – something I inherited along with a Pentax MX film SLR that sadly no longer works (the mirror is gummed up). sailing dinghies on Oulton Broad I’m really not much of a telephoto shooter – the only other long lens I can use is my wife’s Fuji XC 50-230mm, which is… well, about what you’d expect for a modern low cost plastic lens: nothing particu…
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Short walks on the beach
Thursday 30th of March 2017
Since it was a nice evening, Zoe and I decided to go for a walk on Kessingland beach. Turns out once the sun gets low enough it’s not actually that warm any more, plus the early weeks of pregnancy are quite the obstacle course of nausea. So, not a particularly long walk, but a nice one nonetheless. X-T2, 23/2 tattered red bunting ‘Fresh Eggs’ sign soft shadows on sea wall Zoe beyond some beach gra…
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Burgh Castle, and the setting sun
Tuesday 14th of February 2017
Yet more nice weather! Perhaps the atmosphere will be kind for this whole week while I’m off work? Once again I wanted to go out somewhere today and make the most of the shine, and so: Burgh Castle . I’ve been here before with Zoe but that was a long time ago and I don’t even know if I posted the pictures here (if I did, I didn’t tag the post properly, oops). It’s an ancient Roman fort, or rather…
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Dunwich Heath in the evening
Monday 18th of April 2016
Summer is definitely on the way: the evenings are light for longer (sunset is around 20:00), the weather is warmer, and things are starting to grow green bits. I’ve visited Dunwich Heath before, earlier in the year, and although I got a nice walk out of it, I got there a little too late to get many decent photos, even with the tripod. This time though I arrived with enough time to enjoy an hour’…
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OCOLOY Week 39
Sunday 6th of December 2015
I said last week that I was going to think about using a ‘Fuji Neopan 1600’ emulation for processing this week’s pictures. I decided to go ahead with this, and quite early on realised it’d mean having to keep it in mind when shooting, as it has a particular contrast and colour response that’s quite… ‘opinionated’. The usual preset I use has a more subtle aesthetic, and suits quite a wide variety…
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OCOLOY Week 30
Sunday 4th of October 2015
Thirty! It seems like the end is in sight now, and I’m not sure how I feel about that. It’s been an interesting experience being limited to one (ish) lens for so long, and having that restraint lifted… well, I’m looking forward to it if nothing else because it’ll be something new. Will I start using my 18 – 55mm lens more again? Maybe. As much as I started out not feeling all that comfortable with…
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OCOLOY Week 29
Sunday 27th of September 2015
I made much more of an effort this week to get out and take pictures. I even got in my car and drove somewhere ! (Amazing, I know) As a result, I had quite a few more pictures to choose from than in previous weeks, which of course necessitated sharpening my editing (in the selection sense) skills. This, I think, is one of the challenges of this whole project: picking a small number of really good…
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Pakefield Beach
Sunday 6th of July 2014
My fiancée Zoe and I moved house recently, to Carlton Colville, a small suburb south of Lowestoft , and one of the nicest things about it is that it’s only a short walk to the beach in nearby Pakefield. view south along Pakefield beach The view south along Pakefield beach me on the steps down to Pakefield beach Zoe took this picture of me on the steps down to Pakefield beach The beach is very wel…
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