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A week ago I went with members of the Cambridge Camera Club for a walk between Kings Cross Station and Victoria station, prior to visiting the London Salon Exhibition in Croydon. It was a dry day and mainly overcast. On the way out from Kings Cross we went through a square where this gentleman was feeding the pigeons (shades of South America). Then it was into the British Museum, which I have never photographed before. Another really iconic building that has been 'snapped' a million times. I had on me my DSLR, a 35mm prime lens, a 16-35mm zoom and the Lensbaby. The sunlight was coming and going while we were there, making for interesting lighting conditions. I could not resist a few Lensbaby shots, using the double optic Composer and a f5.6 aperture. Finally a few shots on the way to, and around Soho

About three weeks ago I had an exhausting day in London, taking in exhibitions and making photographs along the way. I started in St Pancras Station using my camera with a Lensbaby, to try to get a different take on the well photographed set pieces. For those of you who have not come across the Lensbaby before, it is a lens with an optic which has a flexible base to allow you to shift the angle of the lens away from the plane of the camera to get selective focus. It is possible to change the glass part of the lens to give different effects. I have just bought the Lensbaby Three Optic Swop kit, which comprises, a single glass optic which gives more distortion than the double glass optic that comes with the Lensbaby Composer (the basic lens), a plastic lens to give Holga type effects and a pin hole/zone plate lens. I did not have the tripod with me so I worked with the single glass optic and the plastic lens, using an aperture, mainly of f5.6. I also took the 50mm f1.4 lens with me, to ...

We have a saying in our family that every holiday has to have a pointless walk. One that starts out with good intentions, but never gets to where you are supposed to be going and is in some way difficult. On the last day I spent with Mairi and Naomi we intended to walk to some waterfalls outside of the city of Sucre. We had heard that at one time the place was fairly dangerous and there had been robberies, although it had been cleaned up since. Nevertheless we decided to take our swimming things, the minimum of money and no cameras. So no pictures (hurrah I hear you cry). We had to walk down to one of the local markets from where we caught a bus out to a small village. The day was hot and cloudless but we intended to walk to the waterfalls and stay there until it got cooler. At first we were not sure which way to go, so Naomi asked one of the locals and we were put on the right track. It involved walking down quite a steep hill to another village further on, where the falls were sup...

Sucre was a pleasant place to chill out in. On the Tuesday morning Naomi was not feeling too good, she had a chest infection. I realised that I was flying home on Friday and needed some presents to take with me, so Mairi and I hit the shops in Sucre. We found one really nice shop called T'Ika where the gentleman was helpful and the clothes were all bought in from local crafts people. We spent a lot of money there and I treated myself to an alpaca cardigan. When we returned to the hostel Naomi felt a bit better so we took a bus out to a place where the side of a hill has been excavated by a cement factory and a mass of dinosaur footprints have been uncovered. We caught a tourist open top  bus from a corner by the cathedral and went far out of the town, through an area filled with lorries and transport companies. Here are some pictures taken en route. The cliff showing the footprints was pretty high and there are supposed to be around 5000 prints. One of the s...