By paulperton | Review
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, was determined to stay on […]
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By paulperton | Review
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 a triple header road test […]
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By paulperton | Interview
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, culminating in my attending one […]
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By paulperton | Interview
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 around the house a project […]
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By paulperton | Monday Post , Uncategorized
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 in place – on seeing […]
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By Bob Hamilton | Opinion
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 more purpose and meaning, photographically […]
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By paulperton | Travel Photography
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) our flamingo-legged guide led us […]
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By paulperton | Travel Photography , Uncategorized
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 wrong, of course. As soon […]
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By paulperton | Opinion
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 allow for photographic exploration and […]
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By paulperton | Interview
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 photo workshops she has attended […]
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