Category Archives: Leica Summarit 35/2.5 The photos from Dungeness taken on the GR2 with the 21mm lens emphasise the drama of the place since it is well suited to a wide angle view and red-filter cloudscapes. The M6 with a 35mm lens gives a completely different perspective, and although with hindsight I wished I’d had a red-orange filter on the…  Photographically it has been a busy day. I usually walk the dog up to Point Hill. Recently the Greenwich Phantom had a blog post ‘The best view in London‘ (shortly after mine…) and used the word ‘country lanes’ which sounds paradoxical but hey, it is true The day was spectacularly bright and sunny and warm…  Blackheath Fair Last time I photographed Blackheath Fair I think I had a Nikon D200 coupled with the Nikkor 85/1.4 AFD. I used absurdly high shutter speeds to keep the aperture as wide open as possible because I really like the quality of the out-of-focus areas areas produced by this lens (ie bokeh, a qualitative…  I didn’t know about this little park adjacent to Blackheath Common. Approaching it from the bottom of the hill it reveals itself slowly and not at all obviously which is the reason I have missed it before. On the way there we pass this plant pot behind bars. Rob had clocked its feet on a…  One thing about walking a puppy is that I walk slowly with less purpose. I am out because the dog needs a walk rather than my usual need to get somewhere. So we are wandering slowly. Walking slowly allows me to see more than I usually do, it is almost meditative. Almost. It allows me… |
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