A year or so ago I invested in a Fujifilm XF80mm F2.8 Macro lens. It’s an expensive lens to buy new, retailing at over £1000 in the UK. I bought mine second hand from MPB for about £600. It was advertised as mint condition and I wasn’t disappointed, it was like new. I buy all my lenses, used, from MPB these days and I would wholeheartedly recommend them.
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I’ve needed to write a short blog to catch up on some of my recent bakes and food images. So here goes. First up is a Lemonopita, a Greek Lemon Pie. The idea for making this came about after we discovered lemon pie in a new Greek bakery in Bristol. It’s the same as a Greek Orange Pie, made with crushed filo pastry, but uses a lemon syrup, rather than orange syrup, to soak the cake.
Continue readingSofia hosts this weeks ‘looking back’ challenge and invites us to post pictures of doors and doorways. Here original Lens-Artist Challenge post can be found here. I’m going to repost a few images here that I’ve used in older door challenge posts. There’s a few new images but apologies if some of you have seen these before.
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We’ve had a tiny round cactus plant at home for about five years or so now. I think it probably came home with us as one of a pack of tiny cacti from Ikea. I’ve never really bothered with it and it normally sits, out of the way, on a book shelf, at the back of the kitchen. It’s in a really good warm, light position.
Continue readingAnn-Christine has set this weeks Lens-Artist Challenge and has asked us to post images related to markets. Her original challenge post can be found here.
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We went back in to Bristol yesterday to meet up with my daughter, Zoe, and three of our grandchildren, Ewan, Barney and Toby, with the intention of visiting a few more Gromit Unleashed 3 Sculptures. We decided to go in to the Clifton area of the city and pick off the five figurines located there.
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Last weekend we paddled down the river Wye, Monmouthshire, Wales in a canoe (I’ve blogged that here). Whilst we were on the water we saw people walking along the river bank, enjoying the stunning scenery in and around the Wye Valley. We both thought a walk in that area might be a nice thing to do. So, once we were back I started to research walks in the Wye Valley and using the Outdoor Active App I found the walk that we completed today.
Continue readingMy in-laws, David and Donna, visited us this weekend so we decided to make the short drive over to Wales and spend Saturday on the River Wye, canoeing from Huntsham Bridge back to Monmouth.
Continue readingThis week John invites us to explore some of photography’s compositional elements – such as colour, lines and patterns. Here’s a link to John’s original post.
Tina hosts this week challenge (here’s a link to Tina’s original post) with this brief – ‘Show me some of the things you’ve learned about photography or any subject you choose.’ That throws me straight in to this image which I took last week….
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