This has been a month. The start of it saw the Hyde Park car show on Labour Day which I celebrated by having my camera fall apart. Not completely, mind - just the outer covering and the thumb rest. The camera is a Fujifilm X-T10 that...
Or how I learned to kick an anger-management book through the window...
How many times do we forget that pictures are all about us? What can we do to jog our memories? I was recently the guest of Mike and Jo at the Hope Farm guesthouse in York - courtesy of The York Society Inc. when I judged...
Well, you enter the York Society Inc.'s annual photographic contest for one, as we reported in the last column. And you also a. Go up the top of Mt. Brown lookout and see the whole sweep of the place. b. Hit the York Motor Museum and lose...
Well, I scored a plum job this last weekend - I was asked to be the judge for the York Society Inc.'s annual photographic exhibition. And as Saml. Pepys and I are wont to say in respect to entertainments - I did goe and was...
You all know Facebook, don't you? The addictive social media site that allows you to play computer games while viewing other people's lunches? And you all follow the side bar of Facebook News don't you? The one that tells us which superstar has carked it...
Specifically, an Australian talking head...
Especially when they are armed with a mirror-less camera and a macro lens. The ability of a close-focusing optic like the Fujinon XF60mm f 1:2.4 R Macro to show flaws and errors that otherwise slide by the human eye is one of its most disconcerting...
I've been watching too many gangster movies. The dialog is starting to rub off on me. If I don't stop it soon I'll be running for federal parliament...
Sometimes I go into Camera Electronic and ask what's new - and sometimes they tell me. So far it has not taught me a lesson, because I keep on asking. New is not necessarily good or bad - it is just new. A fresh page in...