Today I got my lovely package via the post, a new lens! Specifically the Helios 44mm f2 manual lens for my Fuji XT1, with a M42 - FX converter. As per usual when it comes to new photography gear it was a beedy eyed look around the house and garden for things to...
Today I went out to play with a few local photographer buddies and travelled to Digital Splash photo conference / convention, which ever you prefer to call it. I wanted to get my hands on an XT2 camera and a variety of lenses to physically try them. I know want the...
Bamburgh beach is a new place of special memories, a mini holiday away and sunshine in the UK .. oh my! I loved body boarding, building sandcastles, reading books, buying more books and lots of meals out and cooked in the caravan. Skin tight wetsuits and peeling it...
[envira-gallery id="3770"] York Pride was the biggest march I've seen yet in York. It was over a mile long and always ends by the York Race Course at the Knavesmire. Its the biggest picnic with everyone and a stage of live music. Fun, relaxed with lots of friends...
This morning we celebrated the summer solstice with a few hundred if not a thousand or so people who wanted to celebrate the summer equinox. I've been to stonehenge as a teenager but that was a number of years back and besides, we were behind the guided rope and quite...
Our last day! A very long last day too, up at 7am and not returning to our flat until nearly 1am .. with an 9am wake up call for the journey home. This is going to be a loong post too, so here are all the photos and then I'll share the stories behind them. [gallery...
We finally found the new warehouse after several false starts but it's finally moving out from a medium sized warehouse into a huge warehouse that used to be a grain barn. An industrial grain barn. So they've quadrupled their warehouse space and are now able to...
Filming began for the short interviews with the projects and first up are the fabulous Tent Team. These guys work hard every single day constructing tents, shelters and sun shade areas for refugees to find respite under and sleep with their families in the huge family...
Thessaloniki .. it's one big ass city that sprawls round a huge bay and into the hills. One of my favourite views was coming home at night and looking out of the lights of the city and seeing the huge container ships dotted around the bay .. but that's another story...