Merry Christmas 2018
These splendid-looking Embden geese are residents at the Weald and Downland Living Museum, West Sussex, England.
These splendid-looking Embden geese are residents at the Weald and Downland Living Museum, West Sussex, England.
I’m ashamed to admit that I managed to drop my camera c/w my favourite 14mm-150mm Tamron super-zoom lens yesterday. I failed to secure the camera correctly to the tripod and it fell crashing to the ground, lens-first. Fortunately the camera, a tiny µ4/3 Lumix DMC-GX7, seemed unharmed. Even more fortunate, I generally I use those…
Today we took a boat trip from from Mui Wo to Cheung Chau, and had a bit of a wander.
I had a pretty grim time recently trying to fix a “Flatpak public key error” on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Well KDE Neon to be more precise, but it’s underlying operating system is Ubuntu. I had been attempting a “user” mode installation of an application via Flatpak with no success. I installed Flatpak in the normal…
I had to go to Southampton’s West Quay shopping centre today. It was quite a nice sunny day. There was hardly anyone around and almost everything was closed. So I stopped for a few snaps.
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…
Just spent a pleasant afternoon wandering around Kowloon and Central, Hong Kong.