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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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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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Night and day, shadow and light
Sunday 11th of February 2018
I didn’t really appreciate just how much of one’s time a baby takes up until Emily was born. It’s not even just things like rarely having a moment alone; it’s the other stuff, like major limits on spontaneity, especially in winter. Zoe and I can’t just decide to go out somewhere now, as we need to consider how accessible it will be with a baby and maybe pram. Consequently this leaves less time for…
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Further darkness
Saturday 13th of January 2018
As is common this time of year, the sky was quite heavily overcast. Despite the gloom, Zoe and I and my parents went to Norwich, primarily to look at beds for my parents’ new house, but we also went for lunch at Giraffe. We took Em, who was again remarkably well-behaved despite the usual initial upset when we, big meanies that we are, put her in the car seat. Gosh she doesn’t like being put in the…
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More Norwich wandering
Saturday 15th of July 2017
Took these a while back when Zoe’s parents came to visit, and we had a walk around Norwich. For a change, I brought the 18-55 along instead of the usual 23/2 or 35/1.4. It worked out… ok, I guess? The convenience was nice, and if I don’t go pixel peeping, the sharpness is fine too. The bokeh was… not really a factor on this day, but I know for sure it can get weird at times. Still, there was o…
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Some X-T2 + XF23/2 black and whites
Saturday 1st of April 2017
Another trip to Norwich today to get some Euros for our Malta trip on Monday. I hadn’t planned on making these pictures monochrome, but rendering one of them later as black and white made me think to give all the ‘good’ ones the same treatment. cycle path over foot bridge construction work on a building on King Street bush growing up a brick wall graffiti on a brick wall old man looking at market …
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More 23/2, this time in Norwich
Saturday 25th of March 2017
The shiny weather continues unabated, and even felt quite warm by around 11. Since Zoe and I were going to Norwich anyway I obviously took the new lens. One thing I’ve noticed looking over these pictures is that I get the impression I’m using the 23 like a 35, and not taking advantage of the wider field of view. Too many flat compositions! Zoe on a foot bridge old buildings above the path orange c…
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Norwich, winter sun
Saturday 19th of November 2016
Autumn is almost over, with the temperatures heading well into full on winter territory – today was a mere 2 ° C, partly due to the clear bright sky. What it lacks in colour, winter makes up for in great light that lasts all day. Took the 18 – 55 out for a spin again today, and again it disappointed me. I had an idea that it was the image stabilisation that was causing the lack of sharpness, but t…
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Boring Pictures
Sunday 4th of September 2016
I remember reading many years ago about a book called Boring Postcards . It’s just a collection of postcards assembled by Martin Parr that are all, well, boring: pictures of car parks, office receptions, bus terminals, that sort of thing. It’s fascinating! At first it’s just amusing how ridiculous the idea is, but it gets you wondering: why do these things even exist? Who thought it anybody wou…
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OCOLOY Week 50
Monday 21st of March 2016
Fifty! Only two more after this, the end feels so close now. I’ve started forming some vague ideas about what I want to do with the huge volume of photos I’ve accumulated over the past year (and a bit, since I stalled several times). Since most of the pictures are from within a few miles, I think I’m going to do a kind of documentary project about Lowestoft and the surrounding areas, possibly from…
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OCOLOY Week 42
Sunday 17th of January 2016
Christmas and New Year are quite the schedule disruptors, as evidenced by the nearly 4 week break since the previous OCOLOY post and during that time I did quite a bit of shooting with lenses other than the 35mm. The regular weekly posting will now resume, though, and with only ten more to go! I’ve decided that when I finish I’m going to do a Top 10, since a ‘best of each week’ isn’t really practi…
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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 37
Monday 23rd of November 2015
I was getting a little worried that this week would be a washout, with the weather generally being wet and windy, but fortunately there were a few days of shine and I made an effort to use that nice light. Winter sun is probably my favourite kind of light – it combines the low and long shadows of a sunset/sunrise, but with a colder, whiter, more etherial feel. road arrow road arrow tree and walk…
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