France – staying in an Alsatian gite and cruising around in the MGF. Today we went into Strasbourg, saw the European Parliament and the Council of Europe. Also saw some flamingoes and some rather friendly white Embden geese. Not to mention some rather randy white storks doing their thing.
I’m far too tight-fisted ever to pay to go on a fairground ride. But I do rather enjoy photographing them. So I wandered across the common today with my Olympus C2500L to grab some snaps of the Southampton Common Funfair.
London Golf Show, Day 3, Excel Centre, London.
Took some more time out to grab some more snaps of the bumblebees working the lavender today. Like the snaps I took yesterday, I used my “gardening lens” – a rather battered 90mm f/2.5 Tamron prime macro between f/8 and f/11, attached to my Lumix DMC GX7 µ4/3 mirrorless interchangeable lens camera. Weird as it…
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…
I have a pal whose house lights up like a Christmas tree – literally. So whenever he does this, I always nip over thee with a camera…
Having already sampled quite a lot of the local beer, we thought we really ought to swing by Saverne’s local brewery for a few snaps. Unfortunately it was quite dark by the time we got there. And closed. But the floodlighting is quite good. Camera: Canon Digital Ixus.
