By Paul Perton | Monday Post , Uncategorized
Ten thousand songs in my pocket? Why would I want that? It’s just something else to carry around. Phone. Camera. Separate items please. Why the hell would I want a telephone that took pictures? Two instances (of many) when new technology has left me scratching my head and even when explained by […]
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By Paul Perton | Monday Post
Celebrity photographers are probably a bit less visible than they were a year or so back. Then, it was hard to trawl the Web, open a newspaper, or read a book without being confronted by some kind of publicity for some snapper, or other. They’re still around and my mailbox continues to play host […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
Airport security concerns aside, it’s never just as simple as jumping on a plane from Cape Town to anywhere. As DS readers in Alaska and New Zealand will doubtless concur, there’s almost always a connecting flight, transfer times and an eventual arrival at one’s destination at the least convenient moment. Making a bad situation […]
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By Paul Perton | Review
23 March. Home. To recap; a few days in Singapore – our favourite city in the world – followed by a quick trip up to George Town (Penang), to remind ourselves how much we enjoy being there, too. In part 1, the X-Pro2 was brand new and the post was […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion
On occasion, I’ve been known to resemble Google’s StreetView avatar. Not for my girth – that’s something else entirely – but rather my regular and entirely circular changes of opinion pointing to post processing. Casually viewing the pages of Flickr, 500px et al will set the tone; photographs of just about everything, everywhere. Some […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion
Three months and a milestone birthday ago, I wrote Going a bit more Fuji; stopping the Leica itch (a quickie) about buying an X-Pro1 and being seriously excited at the prospect. As it turns out, I was right to be. Although I was more than three years behind the rest of the photographic […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
The asthmatic high note tooting of Kenny G has accompanied our breakfasts and the lone dinner we’ve eaten in the hotel. Definitely not my choice as it makes me want to slash my wrists, but millions around the world are attracted to his vanilla cocktail style of jazz. Meanwhile, the food is […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
Saturday – we were advised last evening that today’s early afternoon flight west to Varanasi had been cancelled, the airline offering us an alternative at 04:30 to Delhi, several hours wait, then a flight all the way back to our intended destination. Or an airline switch that would cost 3000 Rupees (R600/£30) […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
Note to self 1: when your weather app tells you it’s 35C outside, with a “feels like” temperature of 45C, it’s best not to go for a walk. Especially, if your testosterone ends up encouraging you to walk 7 kilometres through Kolkata’s endless throngs. Note to self 2: if you’re going to be […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
”’Ees gonna fucking kill yer.” “Nah ee ain’t.” “You said you was gonna rape ‘er – all me neighbours ‘eard you. ‘ats his girlfriend and ‘es an ABA. Ees gonna fuckin kill yer.” “Bollocks.” It’s 07:09. We forgot to buy milk for our morning coffee and I’ve wandered into the […]
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