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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.
Digital pictures | General | Journal | Nature | PhotographyCollared doves return
ByGarfI was pleased to note that our collared doves have returned after several year’s absence. Of course I have no way of knowing if they are the same collared doves. But whoever they are, I’m rather fond of them and delighted to see them back in the garden again.
120 year old Bausch & Lomb + Beck lens, in action, on Portsdown Hill
ByGarfRegular readers may know that my 2023 Christmas project was to make this 120 year old Bausch & Lomb + Beck lens fit on my µ4/3 cameras and actually capture some pictures with it. Unfortunately, at the time, the weather was too wet to take the thing outdoors. Fortunately by early January the weather became…
Hungary | Journal | Radio | Travelogue“This Is Hans in Ungarn, from Pécs, Hungary…”
ByGarf“…playing his favourite music, I hope you like it.”
These are the first words you will hear when you connect to the internet radio stream of Radio Pécs International. And I recently had the pleasure of meeting the man behind the show, Hans Randau. His station is located in a small basement room in his lovely home, which overlooks Pécs, a Mediterranean style town about 200km south of the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
Digital pictures | General | Hong Kong | Journal | Photography | TravelogueHong Kong with a new digital camera, part 5
ByGarfI found myself in Hong Kong in Christmas 1998 and early January 1999, and decided to treat myself to a new camera. My first half-decent digital, an Olympus C1400L. These are some of its results…
Windows 7 – is it any good?
ByGarfAmidst lots of puff & bluster, Microsoft has released a half decent Beta version of its latest Windows 7 operating system. One of the claims made for it is that it is faster than Vista. Mind you, it needed to be. I dumped Windows nearly two years ago, largely because of the slug-like performance of…
