Category: General
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Easter photoblogging: Port Louis
Our road-trip cut short by downpours, we stopped at Albion Public Beach to buy rotis. After eating, we drove to another beach, hoping that the clouds would clear. I got lucky and snapped this picture of the lighthouse just before it rained again. We then went to Pointe-aux-Sables where the weather was nicer and people…
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How hard could it be?
Managing a house renovation project is hard work. We keep rushing from place to place, making phone calls to and meeting tradesmen for cost estimates, and pleading–if not begging–for our work to be started in priority. This back-and-forth has been our bane for the last three months. Yet, I’m told that we have made good…
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“I write about photography and programming”
Today, someone from an online tool store with which I had placed a rather large order called to verify that I was not a fraudster. They thought my email address, which has the same domain name as this blog, was odd and wanted to check if it was genuine. I said that it had been…
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Am I turning into a Luddite?
This YouTube video reminds me that my newest personal computer, a Lenovo ThinkPad T440s, is already 10 years old. My other personal computer, a Lenovo ThinkCentre desktop, is 12 years old. There was a time when users had to keep upgrading their computers in order to run the latest operating system or software. For example,…
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Christmas Day photoblogging: Mauritius Bulk Sugar Terminal
Merry Christmas! After a lunch with my mum and two of her sisters in Quatre-Bornes, P and I drove to Les Salines. P had submitted to my plea to go out and shoot the massive COSCO container ship holding position at sea outside Port-Louis. Her terms were that I should leave the aircon running in…
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A few memories of Tahiti
From November 2019 to January 2020, P and I holidayed in Tahiti. When COVID locked down England a couple of months later, the experience of our trip was quickly effaced by the anxieties of the day. Since then, viewing the pictures that I’d taken in Tahiti reminded me of COVID instead of the joyful visits…
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More pictures from expired Ferrania Solaris 100 film
I developed a third roll of Ferrania Solaris 100 today, and the pictures are meh, consistent with the previous two experiments. Also, the grain in these pictures, and in the ones from previous posts, could be either because the film is old or because of over-development. The second reason is more likely, given this is…
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A brief appearance of the Nikon FG-20
Previously I wrote that the Nikon FG-20 is not a suitable camera for practising photography. I argued that its flawed ergonomics got in the way of a pleasant shooting experience and could even cause exposure mistakes. And yet I found myself retrieving it from storage, loading two fresh LR44 batteries and a roll of expired…