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The view from a (steam) train: fields, sea, wind turbines, sunshine.
From a train: North Norfolk coast; August 2016
13 Saturday Aug 2016
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Putney Bridge station; August 2016
10 Wednesday Aug 2016
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Snapped on my way home from the excellent Caught by the River Thames festival on Sunday. Highlights of the event:
- The London Sound Survey (and finally meeting the brains behind the project)
- Beer and paella in the sunshine, sitting in Fulham Palace’s walled garden
- Temples (yes retro, yes derivative, but also fun and they have tunes and the chops to make it work without being stodgy)
- Super Furry Animals: just brilliant, uplifting, moving, amusing, and perfect for the event.
I hope they do it again next year.
Ickworth; August 2016
09 Tuesday Aug 2016
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A lunchtime diversion to Ickworth NT on our way to Norfolk for a few days’ break. I don’t really want to drift in to reviewing National Trust properties, but it was nice, quite quiet, and pretty photogenic; and also a pleasant change from eating at motorway service stations.
À Lille, pour le Weekend; July 2016
31 Sunday Jul 2016
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A great weekend in Lille, travelling by Eurostar from Ebbsfleet International (about which I could get quite evangelical – for its convenience, if not its glamour and sophistication: the train left Lille Europe at 17.36 local time on the way home and we got into our house in SE7 at 18.20).
I visited France a lot as a child and – a bit like with camping the previous weekend – couldn’t imagine at the time that I wouldn’t do so regularly forever, but then through my 20’s and 30’s hardly went at all. It felt good to be back there, and to see my daughter discover Orangina, waffles, pain au chocolat, and all those things that are readily available in London but somehow much better in France. Paris next year, I think.
Bracken; July 2016
26 Tuesday Jul 2016
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I’ll win no prizes for composition with these shorts (nor probably for depth-of-field control), but I’m very much enjoying what I can do with the Fuji X-T10 with a 35mm f1.4 lens on the front.
These shots from an excellent camping trip to a pine forest somewhere outside Battle in East Sussex this weekend just gone.
Woolwich Tesco from the top deck of the 53 bus; July 2016
17 Sunday Jul 2016
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Carbuncle Cup winner or keystone of local regenation: either way, Tesco looms large over General Gordon Square in Woolwich. I’m told the flats upstairs are nice, though.
Shot this on my iPhone while passing on the bus to Plumstead last night, then processed it with Snapseed app – just to keep in practise, really. If I could be bothered, I’d load it up to my computer and clean up the window reflections, but I’m not sure I’m that fussed about it.
Down by the river: Deptford Creek; July 2016
10 Sunday Jul 2016
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Shot from the Trinity Laban dance centre, looking towards Greenwich.
Back towards the Laban centre from Ha’penny Hatch.
OX4: chip shop photo project
08 Friday Jul 2016
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I love everything about this project: the portraits are great, it exemplifies the democracy of photography as an art form, and positively brims with the love of a hobby. Well done to BBC Oxford for putting the video together (a shame that WordPress.com doesn’t seem to allow for embedding of BBC videos, though).
Blackbird in my garden; July 2016
07 Thursday Jul 2016
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Practising wildlife photography in my back garden; a female blackbird mostly unbothered about me taking photos from a reasonably close distance. One of the many good reasons for having an unkempt and scrappy patch of lawn instead of artificial grass.
Camera test: Fuji XT10; July 2016
02 Saturday Jul 2016
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I bought a Fuji XT10 to replace the X100t I stupidly left on a train. Had a few minutes this evening to snap a few things around the garden to try it out; the shot above being the only one really worth sharing. Wildlife and flower photography is really difficult – it’s amazing what a job the human eye does of filtering out the straggly bits of plants and focusing on the pretty bits without the brain apparently having to think about it.
The camera seems good, anyway. I think I might miss the optical viewfinder that the X100t had, and it is certainly less pocketable, but the chance to use the Fuji f1.4 35mm lens again is definitely worth something, and it feels very well made. More to come over the weekend, hopefully.
NeilClasper 
