In mid-May, on a family visit the the beautiful Howick Hall Gardens in Northumberland, I decided to see how the original Fujifilm X100 holds up in 2023.Released in February 2011, the Fujifilm Fine...
In mid-June, as the temperatures rose, we got a few good fret days at the coast and on one of them I managed a wander with the camera.As you drive through Cullercoats coming from the north, the co...
As the weather here turns to rain again, I thought I would share a couple of images from a rainy-day walk to the sea front at the end of June this year.The Rendezvous cafe in Whitley Bay is a prop...
With some work visitors in town this week, I was reminded of the really interesting building at 1 Queen Street.Having been out for dinner in Newcastle last night, we headed down towards the river ...
Early thoughts on a lightweight photography hiking backpack
Photograph a flying rally car with a 6x7 medium format film camera? Go on then.
An early morning start to catch sunrise at the Simonside Hills
Yes, this is over a year late...
An 1880 volunteer lifeboat watch house, now run as a museum.The weather here today has been constant mizzle, later turning into full-on rain, but the general trend has been towards the warmer clim...
There’s a famous quote in computer science from Phil Karlton: “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” The naming part, I find, transfers ju...