Park Hill 2015 : The First Collaborative Project Park Hill’s Streets in the Sky officially opened in 1961. The complex of 1000 flats was designed to house 3000 people with all homes linked by a 12 foot wide covered walkway and was a bold example of post-war social housing in Sheffield. Designed by architects Ivor…
I find woodlands are magical places where light dances through leaves, shadows play tricks on the eye, and every corner reveals something new. For photographers, they offer a natural canvas for capturing mood, mystery, and the wild beauty of nature. But beyond just taking pictures, woodlands are also an inspiring space for creating photo-haiku, a…
Discovering The Fuji X100VI and the Fuji X-T50 Had a great week at Bridlington last week. I took the new Fuji X100VI and Fuji X-T50, along with an 8mm, a 30mm macro, and the 70-300. I can get all the kit into a Billingham Hadley, whereas my previous kit, which comprised an Olympus OM1 and…
A Serendipitous Day with The Norwich and District Photographic Society Pictorialists Group at Corpusty Mill Garden They say that accidental things are often the best, and last weekend was a perfect example of that. I had arranged to visit Joan and David, my photography friends in Norfolk. To our delight, they suggested that Shona and…
Shoot-out : The New Fuji X-T50 meets my X100 VI Carol is a professional photographer who also works as an Imaging Solutions Product Specialist roaming the country showing the world Fuji products, and having inspired me to buy the lastest version of the Fuji X100 (the VI) a few weeks and 55000 shutter presses later…
Off to LCE Lincoln to see the Fuji X100VI I’m taking the Ricoh GRIII Diary to Lincoln Camera Exchange today to meet the Fuji X100VI. LCE are hosting a Fuji day and taking us up the hill (by bus I hope) to the Cathedral for some photography. Amateur Photography have just published an article about…
Lunch at Steels On March 5th I led a Photo Day for the Royal Photographic Society, where ten photographers from all over the region travelled to Grimsby and Cleethorpes to create photography about the achitecture, life in the archecture, and the local food and drink. Our day started at the Yarborough Hotel, a Wetherspoons. How…
Fuji X100 Colchester North Hill 12th January 2012 I am next on the list for a Fuji X100VI Fuji x100 Cleethorpes Prom 2nd January 2012 Fuji X100 London 2nd February 2012 Since Fuji introduced the X100 I have bought a number of them, then sold them, each time returning to the Olympus OMD Micro Four…
I organised a visit to Clumber Park yesterday and invited members of the Royal Photographic Society East Midlands Region. It was the first trip of the year, and it was a blast. As I drove to Clumber from home, the skies were blue, then grey, then rainy, and then blue with a rainbow. I felt …
On yesterday’s journal entry I wrote we were heading off to Mablethorpe for New Year’s day, and then we switched to Barton Upon Humber and the Water’s Edge Country Park, which I had been intending to visit later this week to start creating assets for the photobook workshops I am teaching this month and into…