France heading towards Calais in MGF
This is our last day in France and we head back north towards the Channel ferry, in red MGF. Images taken with Canon Digital Ixus.
Nurses’ noisy but good-humoured protest outside Southampton General Hospital today as first ever major NHS nurses strikes in British history take place. Something about this touched me. Perhaps it was the sadness that these hard-working decent people have to do this. Or perhaps it was the gentle considerate way they did it. Every bus and…
Photographer pal changed the batteries in his dead YN565EX II speedlight flash gun. Unfortunately when he tried to witch it on, it didn’t work. He tried several sets of batteries. No luck. For those not familiar with the device, the Yongnuo YN565EX II is a relatively affordable battery-powered Chinese flash speedlight for both professional and…
Today is my wife’s wedding anniversary 🙂 and she has a bit of a penchant for white storks. I think it is a Central European obsession. Anyway, she said we should go visit the white storks at the recently rewilded 1416 hectare Knepp Estate in West Sussex. So I packed my little Lumix DMC-GX7 camera…
Editor’s note 2018-01-01: Coppermine has been deprecated and we are no longer actively adding to it, nor are we accepting content on it from third-party users. The following text is kept here purely for historical purposes. Whilst most of this is already covered in the “General rules for posting material on GarfNet“, I would like…
Found myself in Havana, Cuba with former New Millennium features editor Sarah Keen, back in the spring of 1998, shortly before my photography “went digital”. Lots of memories from Cuba: the warm climate and friendly people, old American cars, the beautiful but crumbling architecture and the stunning countryside. But most enduring memory is the music….
Editors note, as of June 2024 this web server, and indeed most of our web servers now run Debian. As do many of our desktop and laptop machines. In 1995 our ISP set us up on a server running FreeBSD. Then in 2005 we built our own server, moved to Linux and chose a ‘live…