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Escape to Hong Kong – Fires in the Mui Wo Hills
Took a few snaps of large helicopters dropping water bombs on some bush firs in the hills behind my pal’s house in Mui Wo.
Escape to Hong Kong – The Peak
Decided to ride the Peak ram up to The Peak, to get a few snaps across the city.
Jules Holland on Southampton Common
Jules Holland and UB40 performed on the Common this evening. So I wandered across to take a few snaps.
Testing my cat
By which I mean testing my Tamron 500mm Catadioptric lens. It was a nice warm reasonably clear day today, peaking 24°C. So about an hour before sunset I took my Tamron, fitted on the front of my µ4/3 Lumix DMC-GX7 up to my favourite vantage point on Portsdown Hill, Hampshire. This is a wonderful place…
Repairing an elderly Tamron 80-210mm lens (103A)
I’ve had this old but very chunky Tamron 80-210mm Adaptall 2 telephoto zoom lens since the mid 1980s. Only I noticed that the overall image quality had become rather poor. I wanted to find out why. When I shone a small torch through it, I noticed what appeared to be a haze. Despite several cleans…
Reintroducing Storks to Britain
Following on from my post about Szofi and Macus, seems people all over Europe are cheering for them. They’ve become storky superstars! 🙂 Meantime back here in old Blighty, storks’ 360,000 year archaeological relationship with Britain came to an end several centuries ago, when it seems they were hunted to extinction. However, there currently three sites…
