By Steve Mallett | How-To
Yesterday I had a cataract op to my right eye and here I am, wearing sunglasses, writing about it already. Miraculous really. To backtrack, twelve months or so ago I went for a routine eye test and complained to my optician about my “rubbish glasses”. This has always been my stance since first having to wear […]
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By Steve Mallett | Art & Creativity , How-To
It’s 4:40 a.m. Light from the waning moon turns the bedroom a flickering ivory as scudding clouds open and close their shutter. My mind is a rat on a wheel thinking about gear. What to take and what to leave at home. In three days I am off to Australia to visit son and […]
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By Steve Mallett | Travel Photography
Paul had been trying to arrange this get-together for months and I could sense his rising level of frustration as our diaries refused to co-operate. Then finally it looked like the stars might be aligning. I already had a date to be in London for an Underworld gig at Wembley, Paul was due to fly […]
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By Steve Mallett | Opinion
Pascal’s post #755, “In defence of smartphone photography, again” and more recently Adrian’s post #786 Am I going Crazy? (Using an inexpensive smartphone), speak of “smartphone fun” and I thought I’d add my two penn’orth. As some of you will know, I belong to a U3A camera group, (University of the Third Age) comprising members of […]
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