Category Archives: Photography

Mine and other peoples’.

Well, hello old friend

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I started to get seriously into digital photography at the start of the 2000s. My first digital camera (should there be a ™ after that?) was a little Fuji compact thing. It didn’t cost much, but was fun to play with. Eventually, I persuaded Best Beloved that I should move up to something a bit more serious.

With care it was possible to take perfectly nice images with the Fuji.

The obvious upgrade path was to a digital SLR. The obvious problem there was the technology wasn’t quite hitting its stride, and the other obvious problem was such things were still eye-wateringly expensive. I had read a review or two, and felt the best move up from a compact was to a Minolta Dimage 7. Out on the town one Saturday, with Best Beloved in tow, I suggested we have a look in the better of the town’s camera shops — remember them? — and if they had a Dimage 7 in stock I would like to have a play with it. Well, there was a promotion on, and the discounted price was too good to miss.

We walked out of the shop with a Dimage 7.

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I don’t do unboxing things

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Okay, just this once.

Rather sooner than anticipated, the DC adaptor pack for my EOS 7D arrived. If you’re wondering what I am on about, it was referenced in this post, Still feeling left behind.

A small box.

The Neewer box is smaller than I expected. Despite everything being aimed at easy recycling, the box was double wrapped in a polythene bag of some kind.

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Still feeling left behind

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I find I’m being forced into upgrading some of my tech. I’m not sure I’m happy about this. I have touched upon this in an earlier post.

When I stopped trying to be a freelance designer and started being a freelance modelmaker instead, I let my interest in all the computers and software and stuff I needed for the former profession drop. It wasn’t relevant to my work any more. I didn’t need to know about the newest and shiniest. While the interest was still there, I was a more distant observer of developments.

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Rochester

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A bright Sunday morning in February 2013 saw the Invicta Shutterbugs (that’s what I called the photo walk “club”) visit Rochester.

This album is the images I chose from my efforts that day.

Rochester Cathedral
Rochester, Kent, England. In case you were wondering.

I do apologise for this run of Flickr links. I haven’t had the brain capacity recently to blog about anything otherwise particularly interesting. Still, the blog is ostensibly about life seen (mostly) through a lens, so I think it counts.

Romney Marsh and Dungeness

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In 2012 I thought it might be fun to organise regular monthly photo walks around Kent. I managed to persuade a hard core of fellow photographers to play along. I enjoyed seeing how others approached making photos of the same subject, and sharing tips and techniques. We also shared the results of our labours via the late lamented medium of Google+. Don’t judge. It was a good place for photographers.

As ever with such things, numbers attending walks tailed off, interest generally began to wane, I found it harder to be enthused about planning and organising things, and eventually we pulled the plug. Over the period of about a year we managed nine walks around Kent. It was fun while it lasted.

Disused
More black and white. I’m not sorry.

There is something about the Romney Marsh, Dungeness and the Denge. It is an other-worldly place, a proper liminal space, that seems to have little to do with the rest of the coast on either side. I love it, and I should try to get down there again before too long.