By Paul Perton | Opinion , Travel Photography
After three years marooned in the UK by COVID, airlines and governments that couldn’t form a unitary travel policy, I finally got back to my home near Cape Town in February. The plan was to start emptying the house and put it on the market. Over almost a month, I managed to corral the valuables, […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
Art exhibitions aside, few attractions seem to disappoint as much as museums, especially those we grew up with and re-visit only to find them renovated and dumbed-down to appeal to an average age of under ten and IQ close to room temperature. London’s Science and Natural History Museums are no longer exciting and involving. Their […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
Twelve Spitfires deserved their own post – it’s a lot to take in. There are at least six more dotted around the museum area. But Duxford has lots more to offer, a huge collection of aircraft from the RAF and Fleet Air Arm, plus lots of what the Americans call “War Birds”. It’s a huge […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
For the first time in preservation history, the Imperial War Museum at Duxford is hosting twelve Spitfires in an open hangar setting. The twelve are by no means the only Spitfires left in existence, but these represent all of the significant marques, developed during World War 2. They are all highlights in their own right, […]
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By Paul Perton | Art & Creativity , Travel Photography , Uncategorized
No words. These images hardly need explanation. Technical note; shot with a Fuji X-H1 with either the 16-55 f2.8 Fujinon zoom, or 90mm f2 Fujinon prime. Post processing in Capture 1.
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
If I wasn’t so dedicated to maintaining acquaintances and friends, I might have forgotten DearSusan over the last year or so. Still COVID-marooned in the UK, I have a slightly different world view to many, but still suspect that the pandemic had wrought damage we haven’t yet contemplated, much of it deeply psychological. Behaviour patterns […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion , Uncategorized
Steve (and Mrs Steve) seem to have had COVID early last year. They got sick on their trip to Australia and New Zealand, struggled for a few weeks and eventually recovered. Recently, while getting his annual flu vaccination, Steve was told by one of his GP’s team that the widely held belief in the village […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
I’ve been down to west Wales to see Steve (Mallett). The weather was predictably poor and we spent time catching up, listening to his new audio system, talking and shooting photographs. My Fujis are always at the ready and his return to Olympus has been marked by an as yet untried Olympus E-M1 Mk iii […]
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By Paul Perton | Related Off Topic
A couple of weeks in and the audio drop outs suddenly seemed to be getting worse. It’s streaming was more reliable, so I found myself listening to Spotify rather than my preferred Roon/Tidal/Qobuz triad, while I attempted to solve the problem. Initially, I pointed finger at the MacMini and got within millimetres of buying a […]
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By Paul Perton | Related Off Topic
I haven’t touched a camera in a while. Not much interest to be honest – although the arrival of a jammie (jam jar = car) has enabled me to travel more, which I plan to do real soon now. Lockdown-enabled, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand why I should no longer buy […]
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