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Long spring weekend in Paris, day 2
ByGarfDecided to take my new girlfriend and a Fuji S2 Pro to Paris for a long weekend. Today we wandered around Notre Dame and its environs. Camera: Fuji S2 Pro.
Drunken bumblebees in our garden…
ByGarfDrunken bumblebees working the lavender in our garden. Seems Bumblebees have longer tongues than ordinary worker bees and can reach to the bottom of the lavender flowers in order to get to the nectar. Moreover nectar can ferment, when mixed with rainfall and natural yeast. Consequently these incredible little creatures can become quite tipsy, especially…
Digital pictures | FAQ | Journal | Linux | Photography | Technology | WindowsMy camera cards keep getting corrupted. Can I prevent this?
ByGarfI’ve had cheapo cards that I dropped, kicked, trod on, used a squillion times, paid the proverbial tuppence ha’penny for and they are still going. Others, even the expensive ones have failed or become flaky within a few months – or worse, clapped out just outside the warranty. Similarly hard disks can fail in the…
A few close-ups with my Fujian 35mm f/1.7 CCTV lens
ByGarfI treated myelf to a new lens the other day, a Fjujian 35mm F/1.7. This thing has no stop clicks. But it’s astonishingly well-made, of all metal/glass construction and behaves very much like a Victorian Petzval lens. It’s a “C” mount and fits nicely (and fills the frame) on my µ4/3 cameras with a simple…
Digital pictures | General | Journal | Nature | PhotographyA few springtime snaps around the old homestead
ByGarfWell, the weather has perked up a bit, But we can’t actually go out and do very much because of coronavirus lockdown. So I thought Id take a few springtime snaps around the old homestead.
Rishi Sunak – yet another unelected pro-Brexit British prime minister
ByGarfSo it seems we have yet another unelected Tory prime minister. In addition to being Britain’s first British-Asian and Hindu PM, and the youngest PM in over two centuries, Rishi Sunak also has the distinction of being our third PM in seven weeks! This time there wasn’t even ballot for Tory Party members. He just…
