Author Archives: Matthew

Tom

02.08.17

This extremely handsome and likeable young man is Tom. He is the son of a friend and last Saturday night he joined us as a few of us sat chatting. He happened to sit in a chair with a downlighter-standard lamp above and to the right of his head. I was immediately struck by how...

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Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mk2 Part 2

12.09.16

OK, so what is so special about this camera for me? Why am I so besotted? Let me start with size. (From the brilliant camerasize.com) This is a comparison between my Canon 7D and my Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mk2. This gives a sense of how much smaller the Olympus is, but what it doesn’t tell,...

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Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mk2 Part 1

11.24.16

Ok, I’m in love! It has taken a while for me to talk openly about it, because I have been broadly faithful for a long time, and coming to realise that something fundamental has changed has not been easy; there comes a time when only full confession will make things feel OK again. Pic by Kārlis Dambrāns...

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Fullarton Fairy Trail

10.19.16

A couple of weeks ago, my wonderful friend Gillian and I took her daughter and HB to the…..well, you can read I suppose, so no point in me repeating it. The trail is in Troon, so not only did the girls enjoy searching for fairies, (I know, as a scientific rationalist I really struggle with...

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Rainy Troon

10.13.16

These were taken a couple of weeks ago when HB and I had a wee afternoon in Troon. It was a dreich and miserable day but I made the mistake of uttering the words of paternal folly, “what would you like to do today”? “Troon” came the answer! So here we are, car parked and...

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