Back from Italy

Janette and I got back late last night from our week's holiday on the Amalfi coast. The hotel was lovely overlooking the sea on three sides and the weather was blisteringly hot. A few days soaking up the sun was interspersed with jaunts to Herculaneum, Sorrento, Pompeii and a climb up mount Vesuvius. Along with … Continue reading Back from Italy →

Not ‘one beautiful system’?

This is from the 4/3 Rumours website, a conversation had by a Russian Journalist with Mr Akira Watanabe of the Olympus DSLR Product Planning dept.It is a google translation from Russian to English hence the strange grammar.“There is nothing sensational on that front: yes, the DSLR system is also important for us, we don't forget … Continue reading Not ‘one beautiful system’? →

Italy Trip

Thanks to everyone who has looked at my blogg and the pictures I intend to place in the book MMX. With the amount of possible pictures I may have, I may need to do the project in two volumes. At present I am waiting on the outcome of an approaching redundancy and a job interview, … Continue reading Italy Trip →

MMX: Baths and Brooms

This is another image taken at the Black Country museum with my E-620. There are many shops in the living museum set out as they would have been many years ago, and they all offer great photo opportunities. This particular shop appealed to me because of the different goods in the windows and hung outside … Continue reading MMX: Baths and Brooms →

MMX: Cables and Lamp

This was taken at the Black Country Museum using my Olympus E-620. The cables are power lines for the trams that run through the museum. I liked the way they seemed to radiate out from the lamp post like the outer strands of some giant cobweb. The museum is a great place to get images … Continue reading MMX: Cables and Lamp →

MMX: Dark Copse

As you walk down from the site of the castle in Henley-in-Arden you come to the moat at the bottom of the earthworks, which is now pretty much overgrown. As I walked over the site of the moat, I glanced right and saw a copse of trees and thickets that had grown in the old … Continue reading MMX: Dark Copse →