I've been a fan of Leica, since I was a photography student. Some of the great heroes of photography used Leica - guys like Henri Cartier-Bresson , the Godfather of photojournalism and founder Magnum , typically shot…
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Like an impulse ebay Leica- Dream Raving
Just been in a dream where I was at a rave. On the fringe part, near a bar with some benches and people. I took the part of an older dude where the younglings asked me about raves of old. Megadogs and Manchester I told…
- Way back when...
[[1-Projects/DragonDrop-Adventures/posts/2003/2003-01-15-204|As this blog post reports]], my son Felix started school 10 years ago today. He's changed a fair bit since this blogs started. So has pretty much everything…
Procrastination Elf and the Final VersionAbout 3 years ago, [[1-Projects/DragonDrop-Adventures/posts/2010/2010-01-31-id-become-curious-with-the-phrase-life-hacking|I'd become curious with the phrase 'Life Hacking']]. My life is pretty full, what with nearly 4…
Yorkshire puddingsRound at a friends house concluding a challenge we set each other a year or so ago. Mike said his Yorkshire Puddings were better than mine, and I said mine were better than his. The only way to settle this, thought we,…
- keys
Stood in Currys PC world type shop testing out a bluetooth keyboard. I'm thinking about tooling up so field blogging isn't a fiddly affair of phone screen based keyboard. Have to say I'm not mega impressed with this…
Lomo and booksIts the weekend (hoopla!). Friday night and I've just accomplished the fixing of a camera. Inspired by my post 'shoots some film' from a few days ago, I dug out two 35mm cameras. The Smena 8M on closer inspection was…
9½ weeksWe've got nine and a half weeks to go. Another human being is currently curled up inside my wife. Its been nearly 7 years since our last baby. I'm very much looking forward to the arrival of the new little one but I'm…
Shoot some filmMy mate Skip, with a film camera When I was a early to mid teen, photography used to be my #1 passion in life, it's still fairly high up there. A conversation at lunch today reminded me about something that I've long…
RIFE RADIOSo, I've had this project bubbling away for a few months now. Myself and a friend DJ a weekly radio show. I've not talked about it at all on DragonDrop so far. I guess I'd been waiting till it hit critical mass -…
TrossachsI like living in this day and age. The lifestyle benefits and technical trappings really are quite marvelous. I can transport my family to a different country for a weekend without too much bother. It really does tickle…
Quick trip north of the borderPopped up to Scotland. The south Trossachs, in the MacDonald Forest Hills Hotel and Resort on the banks of Loch Ard to be specific. It's very nice. We've got a lodge who's best feature is a view up the Loch, which this…
Clicky click clicky clicketySat outside a supermarket waiting for wife and daughter to forage. The car is silent apart from a very faint clicking noise emitted from the two boys. Both of them have blanket / dressing gowns over their heads to stop…
- Seth is the man
I'm thinking about this thing I've publicly committed to. This 'blog every day this year' idea. Whilst I didn't actually define what I'm calling 'a blog', we all know (or have a google close enough at hand to know) that…
Optical Illusion extraordinaireI've seen my fair share of optical illusions before. I've not seen one as good as this for a while though.. This is a static image - it's not animated in any way. That's your head doing that, that is.