I think my little 40mm pancake lens is my very favourite Canon lens. This is surprising because… it looks ridiculous. On my beefy Canon 5D Mk II it looks like I’ve forgotten to put a lens on at all. the actual glass lens…
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I went to Devon recently and got a real taste for the outdoors life – I ate scones and clotted cream every afternoon (it’s the law), frolicked with donkeys and saw a solar eclipse! On the morning of the eclipse…
If you’re in the UK you’ll be thinking ‘is this post about a building society’? If you’re not in the UK you’re probably (and understandably) mispronouncing one or more of those place names. To all of you – hello!…
It’s still hot. I am still loving it. I am also loving it when nature wins and finds a way though the tarmac… …and trips to my local beach – which is like a 1960’s dystopian vision of a seaside resort; with…
I’m super-wimpy when it comes to really hot weather – I do love (love, love) it but it can be quite hard work. Today was just that sort of day, when the overgrown shade of a Victorian cemetery became particularly…
When the hedgerows are filled with towering clouds of cow parsley, that’s when you know that it’s summer, at last. At last! I made myself do things with a camera at the weekend – pointing it at things, twiddling…
As much as I bang on (and on) about how rubbish winter is, it almost feels worth the suffering when you know it’s almost over and you have the longest possible time until it swings around again. When I…
Don’t let the Scooby-Doo-ness of the location fool you – a spooky Victorian cemetery is just place to spot those early signs of Spring that mean so much at this time of year. It’s always pretty lush here, thanks…
Ponies in the New Forest are allowed to wander wherever they like – even in and out of schools! Maybe they were hoping to find some discarded lunch-boxes or an unattended tuck-shop. I’ll never tire of their nonchalance and…
I have a new lens! It’s a Canon 40mm f/2.8 lens – a pancake lens (I always feel hungry when I hear the P word). I haven’t had a chance to take any ‘serious’ shots with it yet but I…