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ByGarfMy experience of street photography is to make oneself looks as insignificant and unprofessional as possible – which comes rather too naturally to me, TBH! 🙂 Kit should be small, light and ideally somewhat battered looking – a “distressed” look that most of my kit usually acquires after a few weeks’ service. No expensive-looking kit…
Internet Radio | Journal | Linux | Radio | TechnologyBBC deliberately breaks its internet radio service
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Merry Christmas 2004
ByGarf“We’re getting out of here” – 2004 Christmas card. Geese photographed by the Cemetery Lake, Southampton Common.
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Road trip to Hungary, part 16
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