I bottled it. All that time spent looking a jack-of-all-trades lens with a huge zoom range, and I chickened out. The Tamron 18-300mm looks fantastic, but ultimately I worried that I’d just not much use it because of its size. It is cumbersome. And I am lazy. I looked at the more modestly proportioned Fuji … Continue reading Fuji XF18-55mm
For twelve months I wandered around with either my iPhone camera or my Fuji - or both - snapping away. Lazy snapping, mostly. I’d rate my efforts at capturing some nice photos last year as mediocre, and the results a little bit ‘meh’. Still, I have gathered twenty of the better shots - or at … Continue reading Best of 2022
My interest in blogging waxes and wanes. But every year, there’s one post that I enjoy creating and publishing. It’s on the other blog I keep, my photography blog - garydenness.com. It’s a nice and easy blog to maintain. It’s just the one post a year, after all. Published on January 1st, containing a collection … Continue reading Best of 2021
December was not just a multi country month, as was September, but a multi continental month, Europe and North America. It'd been a long time since I'd managed to step foot on shores so far from home. But this does, of course, bring to an end my 365 project. A photo a day, every day, … Continue reading December
One begins to tire as one approaches the finish line. I’m feeling tired in general as we approach the end of the year. Crossing the Atlantic and moving into a different time zone screwed around with my body clock far more this time than it normally does. And it is normally a bit of a … Continue reading November
Let’s have a quick look through the daily photos for June, shall we? There’s a bit of London, a few days of the Cotswolds, a sprinkle of the Purbecks and a whole load of Bournemouth. There’s an an obvious railway theme there too. Which is unsurprising, given my line of work. Ultimately, this collection of … Continue reading June
Another month gone, another batch of photos uploaded. May turned out to be a month of transition and change. The lockdown largely ended and shops and restaurants opened up. I got new trainers. The weather belatedly turned from cold and miserable to warm and sunny. And Debenhams around the country closed their doors for the … Continue reading May
The Mexile 