Framedlight

This is a more family orientated blog than the ones I normally present. The Sunday of the weekend we spent in the Peak District was dry and sunny and we were able to go to the Roaches so that the younger of the party could spend half a day climbing. I took a chair so that I could sit and watch! It was busy, the Saturday had been wet and consequentially everyone had come on Sunday instead. I love the Roaches, the rocks are very interesting to photograph. However today they were teeming with people so I concentrated on snapping Hugh, Mairi and Lizzy climbing instead. I was using a slightly different combo of my Fuji XE-1 camera with an adaptor and an old (1976) Nikkor F 135mm f/2.8 lens. It is a tiny lens only weighing 430g and sits very nicely on the Fuji. It can be pretty sharp although the contrast could be better. It is nice to be able to travel with just a small over the shoulder camera bag. Here are the pictures. The first 3 were taken using the Fuji 35mm prime lens and the ...

I went to London on various occasions in December 2014 and took some pictures with my LG phone and the Fuji XE-1. The first is at West Kensington tube station where the light was dramatic. Next are two from the courtyard of the Royal Academy where there were some boats in a glass box, then one from the side of the Thames at the Millennium Bridge and one from inside the Tate Modern. Finally some pictures taken with the Fuji, at night around St Paul's. These are multiple exposures.

Last week I went into London twice. On the first occasion I was meeting the family at Ronnie Scotts and went in in the afternoon intending to 'do' the Dennis Hopper exhibition at the Royal Academy. Unfortunately I got sidetracked by taking photographs in Burlington Arcade, having a cup of tea and getting engrossed in a book and did not leave enough time for the exhibition. I was not over worried as I was coming into London again the next day. Here are the results of my perambulation down Piccadilly. As you can see it was quite a stormy day.

While I was staying in Cumbria we went to see Blackwell in Bowness.This is a house designed by Baillie Scott for Sir Edward Holt, a brewer, and built in 1901. It is constructed in an arts and crafts style with rooms based around a hall with minstrels gallery and contains furniture and artifacts made by Morris and Co, William de Morgan and Ruskin and Co amongst others. The grounds around the house are lovely but the weather was foul while we were there. Lunch in the tea room was very good however! Photography is permitted and so I let rip with the Fuji. There are a few double exposures (you can only do 2 multiple exposures with the Fuji XE-1) and I have put those at the end.