28 Sunday Aug 2016
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cable car, Emirates Air Line, Fuji XT10, Jetty, london, monochrome, photography, River, Silvertown, Thames
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A breezy and occasionally damp walk along the Thames path, past the Emirates Airline cable car and the old jetty (currently Farmopolis), looking over the river to Silvertown.
13 Saturday Aug 2016
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The view from a (steam) train: fields, sea, wind turbines, sunshine.
10 Wednesday Aug 2016
Posted in Diversions, London, Music, Photography
Snapped on my way home from the excellent Caught by the River Thames festival on Sunday. Highlights of the event:
I hope they do it again next year.
07 Sunday Aug 2016
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alex chinneck, bullet from a shooting star, iPhone, london, monochrome, photography, sculpture, Thames
A bit of time to kill before going to Caught by the River Thames in Fulham spent photographing around the Thames path on the north-west corner of Greenwich peninsula. It’d be a lot easier to make decent photos round there if it wasn’t for the miles of metal fencing, but it remains an interesting place to walk and photograph.
The sculpture is Alex Chinneck’s A bullet from a shooting star, part of the The Line – a sculpture trail running across both sides of the river, that I really should investigate more.
31 Sunday Jul 2016
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black and white, bnw, eurostar, France, Fuji XT10, holiday, lille, monochrome, photography, travel
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.
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.
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.
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.
28 Saturday May 2016
Posted in London, Photography
Snapped while wandering the back streets of East Greenwich on Thursday evening.
30 Saturday Apr 2016
Posted in Down by the river
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black and white, dartford bridge, Fuji X100T, Greenhithe, monochrome, River, silver efex pro, Thames
A quick Sunday morning look at the Thames as it goes past Greenhithe.
NeilClasper 
