Mea culpa. I’ve been living just around the corner quite a while now and only yesterday, summoned the enthusiasm to visit. Huh? The Shuttleworth Collection – just a couple of miles away and much to my surprise, not a just a few clapped-out, dusty and unserviceable aircraft, but a full-on aero museum, filled with […] Posted on DearSusan by Paul Perton ..read more

Five days in France – helping friends clear their home in preparation for a move back to the UK. They were mainly sorting personal stuff, so I could have spent the time waiting around or lolling in a hotel, or more to my liking, getting some photography in. There’s no story beyond that. Hope you […] Posted on DearSusan by Paul Perton ..read more

In a recent comment on E-Films I mentioned the advanced picture style editor tool that Canon has which has been around since the mid 2000s.I own a Canon G7X ii pocketable 1" sensor , 20M Pixel 24-100mm equivalent focal length point and shoot. One of the reasons I chose Canon as a point and shoot […] Posted on DearSusan by Ian Varkevisser ..read more

Have you ever heard of the town of Pontedera? Ponte whatttt? Rest assured, until recently, I had not either. You may recall that a while back, our automobile museum here in Brussels, Autoworld, celebrated the 75th anniversary of the most famous Italian wasp, the Piaggio Vespa.   Well, it is indeed in Pontedera that it […] Posted on DearSusan by Pascal Ollier ..read more

  Who would have thought that the first major camera manufacturer to surrender would be Leica? Leica, with the hallowed history. Leica, whose marketing constantly plug on their legacy. Leica, oh, how the proud, -some say arrogant, even- have fallen! For Leica, it is game over, or rather, game, set and match!   What am […] Posted on DearSusan by philberphoto ..read more

Save for a few tradeoffs, they’re closer in spirit than you might think.   My interest in smartphones as serious photographic tools is not new, nor is it a secret. I’ve written about it many times on this blog. And though part of my initial attraction was more a gag reflex to the repulsively terrible […] Posted on DearSusan by pascaljappy ..read more

… and Closing the Loop on the SL2 This article came about because I needed a fun photographic day doing something out of the ordinary, and I was told that seven AV-8 Harrier jets were visiting the King County International Airport in Seattle, which is locally known as Boeing Field. Scanning the article, I saw […] Posted on DearSusan by Paul Barclay ..read more

Regular DS readers will be familiar with my lifetime interest in railways and especially steam locomotion. Couple that with a love of photography and industrial archaeology and last Friday’s photographic session at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWSR) was an ideal opportunity to give me and my camera an early summer outing.  The GWSR runs […] Posted on DearSusan by Paul Perton ..read more

Nestled in a corner of False Bay at the foot of the mountains lies the Surfing hub of Muizenburg. False Bay so named because mariners of old when rounding the southern tip of Africa often mistook it for Table Bay , Cape Town. Muizenburg is Dutch for 'mice mountain' though I can honestly say I […] Posted on DearSusan by Ian Varkevisser ..read more

Once a year, Spa Francorchamps, the mythical Belgian race track, invites all sorts of retired cars from the 60s, 70s etc. to run and compete in various categories. Quite a feast for car nuts, and this year, I was able to attend.   2024 marks the year of the Porsche 917 celebration, and thus there […] Posted on DearSusan by Pascal Ollier ..read more