I thought I’d done with zoom lenses some years ago, when the Sony NEX showed me just how many quality images I could shoot with manual prime lenses and a little more personal application. I’m convinced that this simple symbiosis had a radical impact on my photography and so,
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Kaiman Wong (Kai W) calls it a beast. An acknowledged street photographer true, but jizzing around in the rain outside a new(ish) building at 1 New Change in the City of London is hardly a decent test. There are now three X-H1s in the hands of our contributors and
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Paul Bruins – I call him the Man With Legs Like A Flamingo, as he is all of 6′ 5″ tall – is a Cape Town based photographer. I met Paul at a (Facebook) Cape of Storms photo meeting a couple of years ago and we’ve kept in occasional touch,
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South west Scotland. The fancifully named St John’s Town of Dalry, not far from Dumfries. A self-designed and built home, sustainable and incorporating as much eco-technology as possible. A mammoth task and even during the building work, photographers Ted Leeming and Morag Paterson decided to make the magnificent scenery
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December. Christmas is already the elephant in the room and as I’ve been out of the DearSusan loop for a couple of weeks road tripping, my thoughts turn to the penultimate Monday Post and what I can contribute. A quick check to ensure my facilities remain largely
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Bob Hamilton is a regular contributor to DearSusan. He makes some interesting points here which might interest us all in this lengthy article. **************************************************************************** I’m getting on in years and have this increasing urge to push my personal envelope and, at the same time, do something which has a bit
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I told Paul that I don’t do hills. It’s not that I can’t, but ageing knees, a paucity of breath and ten or fifteen kilos of photo kit just don’t do it for me any more. That seemed eminently sensible until Sunday morning, when Paul (Bruins)
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A post of two halves: my take, followed by DS-regular, Steve Mallett. Photographs as captioned. **************************************************************************** It was a shock at first, this hotel on the quayside at St Margaret’s Hope. Our townie attitudes immediately marking it down as old fashioned and no doubt, a mistake. We were
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Surrounded by friends of many decades and places past, a week of salmon fishing on the Spey has become a part of our annual calendar. Filled with food, laughter, a more than adequate supply of booze and an occasional fishy catch, there are also quiet times in most days which
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Cathy is a photographer I met through the Facebook group Cape of Storms – essentially Cape Town-based amateur and pro photographers, mostly shooting urban and rural landscapes. In the year or so that I have known her, her work has improved radically, signposted by her posts on Facebook, referencing
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