As a photographer, my preference in terms of equipment over the years has always been Canon. Over the years since buying my first EOS 10D dSLR, I’ve been steadily growing my lens collection with L glass – and now shoot professionally with a pair of full-frame Canon EOS 5D’s (Mk2 & Mk 3 bodies). While…
As you’ve probably heard by now if you’re an active user of Apple’s Aperture professional tool, its death warrant has just been signed… by Apple. Based on a growing collection of news sources including The Loop, it seems that Apple appear to have decided to cease development of Aperture in-favour of a new consumer-orientated tool…
With a suprising burst of sunshine, the last weekend was spent running around outside with Sam and Ellie making the most of a lovely sunny sunday. The day led to some lovely “lifestyle” photos of Sam enjoying himself, which seem to have become some of the most popular images over on my Facebook page –…
We popped over to my mum’s for Easter Sunday, and Sam decided it’d be a fantastic idea to take his little sister Ellie for a drive. She seemed to enjoy the idea, and I suspect there’ll be a few more occasions like this to come in the future! Video below!!
Spotted this during a brief walk around our area this evening – a lovely, bright & sunny spring evening. Follows on from the lovely big Norfolk sky I shot yesterday. Think I might need to start taking a proper camera out and about with me more often rather than relying just on a phone!
Just driving along this evening, and realised I need to keep a better camera with me than an iPhone!
Following on from the last post covering the clean up & demolition of an old wooden summerhouse, this one looks at what happened next… I should probably start by stating that I’m definitely not a builder, structural engineer, or to that matter; carpenter. Building anything out of a pile of wood, without following a plan…
I should probably start by stating that I’m definitely not a builder, structural engineer, or to that matter; carpenter. Building anything out of wood, from scratch, isn’t something I would usually do – and isn’t something I’m particularly experienced in doing. As a result, you should not use anything in this post (or others…
As mentioned elsewhere, this blog has recently been moved off the elderly WordPress platform to a shiny new blogging engine called Ghost. Ghost is a brilliant new way of managing your content, and one that’s simpler and faster than WordPress. Enough about the technology though. Once I’d moved the blog over, on looking through the…
A quick photo of little Ellie, making the most of a beautifully sunny early spring day. It would appear she likes the sun, which is perhaps no real surprise given that was born on the hottest day of 2013… Always handy for a quick lens-flare experiment too..
Hi, this is me… just thought I’d share!
The big news of the day is that the amazing Ghost platform has just received a long-awaited maintenance update to v0.4.2 Billed as a maintenance release, this isn’t just fixing a few bugs but also introducing some major new pieces of functionality. A full list of changes can be found over at ghost.org with all…
Since moving my blog from WordPress to the Ghost platform, the one major issue left outstanding has been an inability to create new posts from either my iPhone or iPad. Not enough of a problem to be a deal breaker but definitely somewhat of an annoyance. I’m currently writing this post on my phone using…
With predictions of 18C temperatures, we headed out to the lovely Norfolk coast today; via a Greater Anglia regional train to Cromer rather than the usual car. Sam was in his absolute element as this was his first proper trip by rail – enjoying everything from carrying his camera around to playing on the beach….
After thinking about it for far too long, I’d like to welcome you to my relaunched website. As any regular visitors will have probably noticed, it hadn’t been updated for some time – and was starting to look a touch dated; meaning a facelift was rather in-order. After a fresh look at WordPress, I’ve decided…
Let me start by saying that having used Apple’s Aperture for years, I’ve reached the conclusion over the last few months that it’s no-longer the best product for my imaging workflow. This isn’t intended to be a comparison between Aperture 3 & Lightroom 4.1 nor is it a review of either product. Both can be…
Advertising-supported services for various things have been around almost as long as the advertising needed to support them has. Over the years various companies have experimented with offering a full gamut of services from advertising-supported mobile phones through to PCs and internet access. For various reasons, many of those services are now not around…
After using Apple’s new Smart Case on an iPad 3 for the last week, I thought I’d collect a few initial thoughts together for anyone considering buying one. Firstly, I should say that although it’s perhaps not Apple’s best product ever, it’s still firmly wrapped around my iPad and is highly likely to stay…
Alongside all the higher-profile news & products emerging during Apple’s 2012 Worldwide Developer Conference was something intended to address one of the most obvious flaws with the iPad Smart Cover. Sold in their millions to iPad owners wanting to protect their devices, it may sound slightly obvious but Smart Covers only cover the screen; leaving…
Since its launch back in 2010, CloudFlare has been a company with an ambitious goal – help to power and protect the entire Internet. Along the way they also accelerate your website, promising massive performance gains through use of their globally distributed servers – providing everyone with easy access a content delivery network. Content Delivery Networks…
