Month: March 2025
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Fixing a Kenko KFM-2100 spotmeter
Last year, I found a Kenko KFM-2100 on eBay for incredibly cheap—if you know how ridiculously expensive spotmeters are—and immediately bought it. It works very well, except that the batteries last much shorter than the nominal 100 hours of continuous use. Today was my day off and a good opportunity to tackle the problem. The…
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Store closing!
This weekend we are staying indoors as P continues to recover from the pain in her lower back, which had her immobilised for most of the week. She was well enough to help me fix spikes on our garden fence, which we hope will deter pigeons and neighbourhood cats—and the occasional foxes—from climbing over and…
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Film flashback
From a ten-year-old negative newly scanned on a Nikon Coolscan V ED, a picture of a fruit vendor at the now-defunct Farnborough Sunday Car Boot.
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Walk around Minley
Yesterday and today, P and I finally hiked a new trail in Minley. It’s less than a ten-minute drive away from home, yet we put off going there for more than a year. It’s also now my favourite of all the trails near us. The terrain is quite diverse, changing from pine woodland to heathland…
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Up Caesar’s Camp again
Hello, Spring. It looks like the good weather will persist throughout the weekend and into next week. Today, P and I climbed up Caesar’s Camp. As usual, the view from the top made the climb worth it. We were also lucky to see the cows that roam around the area. But I did not take…
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Sunday photoblogging
I went walking for three hours, and all I shot was this lousy picture. Yesterday, P and I hiked 15 km around Claycart Bottom and Long Valley, and today another 15 km along Basingstoke Canal and Mytchett. Physically rewarding, but photographically unfulfilling.