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Yearly Archives: 2010

Creek Orange

Laban Complete with waders in Deptford Creek, keeping the camera out of the water, avoiding the underwater trip hazards and aware of the threat of Leptospirosis aka Weil’s Disease… All add up to a hostile photographic environment. The swans seemed to sense the camera and turned out to be even bigger photographic tarts than Gizmo,…

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Background Works

Just testing the Summicron 90/2 which I intend to be using for a series of portraits later this year. It has a reputation for producing excellent bokeh. Certainly some of these backgrounds are interesting. I’ve done very little post-processing Canary Wharf Some views of the bankers across the river Thames Path Mainly down by the…

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Scanners… f*ck’em

My Nikon 35mm film scanner seems to have died. Absolutely no response when plugged in to any USB port. Cables changed, different OSs, nothing, nada, zilch. Which is a shame ‘cos I don’t have £2.75k to invest in a new one and probably never will. Bar code I use an Epson Perfection V750 for medium…

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