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Reviews, reviews, reviews 😉 Stuff gets bought, stuff gets sold. I wish I could hold on to it all, but I can’t. So 3 precious pieces of my kit are on eBay as of today: My Nikon D800e. This is as new. Less than 10,000 actuations (shuttergood for 200,000) and 3 more years of Nikon […]
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You know the warm feeling of genius you first felt at the click of an Instagram button when your very average snapshot of the next door neighbour’s dog was magically turned into a David Hamilton masterpiece of a soft focus poochery ? You know how quickly the feeling evaporated when you found millions of such […]
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Despite the still hot days, despite the cicadas and summer birds (orioles, hoopoos, nightjars, …), despite the echos of children in swimming pools, there are unmistakable signs of autumn gently setting in over Provence. The days, they are shorter and mornings, they are colder. Night dampness no longer dries up in the wee hours of […]
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One of the greatest perils in amateur photography is the click as you go syndrome. Whether every angle of a scene fascinates you or whether you are simply compulsive about getting the shot, you often end up taking way too many pictures of average quality rather than fewer better ones. Manufacturers aren’t helping. And it’s […]
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Now that don’t happen often, does it? Unless you live in Egypt or Australia (or …), ibises don’t fly that often into hotel rooms. So imagine my surprise when a 5 stop IBIS landed right in the palm of my hand in the very center of Paris? Gone potty? Not really, as I’ve always had […]
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On a recent evening, Philippe and I met up on the banks of the Seine river in Paris to make pictures of Notre Dame. Sounds terribly exotic, doesn’t it? Except it was one of the coldest, wettest, foulest days in living memory and it took all of Philippe’s Patagonian training and my experience of 30+ […]
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THIS IS A ROLLING REVIEW Intro : Welcoming the Olympus OM-D E-M5. Episode 2 : The Olympus OM-D E-M5 as a street photography camera in Paris (with plenty more) Sometimes, things just don’t happen the way you expect them to. As I picked up my little Olympus OM-D E-M5 a few days ago, simultaneously letting […]
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UPDATE : Rolling review on the way Episode 1 : The review begins Episode 2 : The Olympus OM-D E-M5 as a street photography camera (with plenty more) I am writing these initial words in Notepad, tearing along the vineyards of Burgundy at 200mph in the fast train taking me from Paris back to my […]
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