Archive for May, 2008
my cameras – Ricoh 500G
This is the first of a series of blogs describing my cameras. Here is a list of them, in order of age (oldest first, and as near as I can guess):
Ricoh 500G (film)
Yashica FX-3 (film)
Olympus XA2 (film)
Olympus is1000 (film)
Pentax Espio (film)
“no-name” throwaway panorama camera (film)
Fuji Finepix s5600 (digital)
Ricoh 500 G
This is a camera from the [...]
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Tags: old camera, photography, ricoh, ricoh 500G
forgetting stuff
The older I get, the more I forget things. I do not mean that I am heading towards dementia, as far as I know. Just that I forget in two sorts of ways.
Forgetting names and such
I have never been good at remembering names. But now, I am beginning to forget the names of things. Not for [...]
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Tags: forgetting, logarithm, math, maths, memory, memory loss
evolving a style?
More and more of my pictures seem to show some sort of style developing. This is especially true of the pictures I love to make of our small-town houses. I love making pictures of these old places – probably built in the 1950s or thereabouts. Because of where we live, on the [...]
Filed under: australia, new south wales, old buildings, photography | 2 Comments
Tags: cutting grass, mowing the lawn, old house, wangi wangi
the backs of the houses
We went to Sydney last weekend, a flying trip to catch up with family, although we stayed two nights. In particular we met up with one of our daughters, who lives in an inner city suburb. Here, the terrace houses date from the second half of the 19th century. Once slums, they are now [...]
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Tags: darlington, enmore
Saturday night in Sydney.
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Tags: b/w photography, evening, little guy, night-time photography, photography, saturday night, sydney, turkish restaurant
visiting Sydney
My wife and I paid a brief visit to Sydney over the weekend – we have family there and were catching up with one of our daughters on Mother’s Day here in Australia. Maybe it is the same day in UK, Europe, USA … I dunno.
We stayed in the Medina serviced apartments in Darlington, [...]
Filed under: australia, new south wales, photography, weird things | 6 Comments
Tags: Meshershmitt, Meshershmitt car, old car, plane, plane/car
Nobbys Beach, Newcastle
On my recent trip to Newcastle (New South Wales, Australia) I was on a reconnoitre of sorts, trying to get an idea of where things are so I can be selective in where I go next time, to get the pictures I want.
Of course, I ended up at Nobbys Beach, a nice little beach just [...]
Filed under: australia, beach, new south wales, photography, the beach | 4 Comments
Tags: Newcastle Australia, Nobbys Beach
brain fog
I have had brain fog recently.
“Brain fog is a term for the “woolly” sensation of a physical obstruction to clear thinking in the brain, often extended to apply in general to neurocognitive symptoms experienced by many people who suffer from diseases such as ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, amongst others.” [Wikipedia]
“CFS” as used here stands for chronic fatigue [...]
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Tags: coal export, newcastle harbour australia, tugs
a visit to Newcastle
This post and hopefully future posts deals with my visits to Newcastle, Australia. First I should make sure you know where I am talking about. We live on the Central Coast of New South Wales, between Sydney and Newcastle. Here is a map to help you locate us:
I am a keen photographer. In the [...]
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