MGF makes a friend in France
MGF makes a friend in France. 🙂 Camera: Canon Digital Ixus.
I have been fascinated by photography ever since I was a child. These days I am seldom more than a few metres from a camera. My photographic interests sprawl from artificial intelligence through to vintage zoom lenses. Unsurprisingly, there’s also quite a lot of Linux in the middle. :-) More…
MGF makes a friend in France. 🙂 Camera: Canon Digital Ixus.
Wandering through the Saverne countryside in France, in Red MGF, testing new cameras. Did a bit of trainspotting too as the TGV passed through town. Cameras Olympus C2500L and Canon Digital Ixus.
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.
Today we drove down to one of my favourite places, Le Corbusier´s strangely beautiful Ronchamp Chapel “Notre Dame du Haut”, France. Camera: Olympus C2500L
Thought we’d cross the border today and visit Basel, in Switzerland. Left the MGF at the gite and took the train instead. I was accompanied by former New Millennium features editor Sarah Keen and her very knowledgeable aunt Jeanne. Camera: Canon Digital Ixus.
Stumbled upon a Citroen DS in reasonably good condition, just outside Fessenheim-le-Bas, France. Had to stop for a few snaps. Camera: Canon Digital Ixus
Today we visited Chateau du Haut-Barr in Saverne, France. Camera: Canon Digital Ixus.
Wandering around Alsace, France in a new MGF. Camera: Canon Digital Ixus.
Red MGF meets green MGF. Camera: Olympus C2500L.
MGF by the Angel of the North and by the cooling towers at Ferrybridge power station. Camera: Olympus C2500L.
MGF meets another MGF in Barclays car park, Shirley, Southampton. Camera: the tiny Canon Digital Ixus.
New MGF meets Blue MGF Camera: the tiny Canon Digital Ixus.
Day trip to Durdle Door, Dorset in New MGF Camera: the tiny Canon Digital Ixus.
Little red MGF meets another little red MGF. Camera: the tiny Canon Digital Ixus.
A few snaps of our new MGF in the New Forest, outside the Reptile Centre, Lyndhurst. Camera: the tiny Canon Digital Ixus. Camera: the tiny Canon Digital Ixus.
The old MGF was very pretty but incredibly unreliable. Eventually after a fight, MG Rover swapped it for a new one. Today we went to collect it. Camera: the tiny Canon Digital Ixus.
Spent the day at Kew Gardens in London with some friends.
Road trip to Lymington and across the New Forest in the MGF roadster.
Another road trip to Lepe Beach in the MGF roadster.
Strolled across to the Common to take a few snaps of this years Balloon and Flower Festival. The weather was unusually dry and clear and I managed to grab some nice sharp colourful images, along with one or two quite amusing snaps,
A road trip to Corfe Castle and Sandbanks, Dorset, in an MGF roadster. Includes a few snaps of the Sandbanks chain ferry.
Road trip to Lepe Beach in an MGF roadster.
Trip to France on the Eurostar train.