Wiblog - Paul's Wibblings

Until this month I was doing the production end of Cavernoma Alliance UK's monthly e-mailshots to members turning the raw text and photos into a well crafted HTML email and I was getting frustrated by the poor quality of the photos I was getting. This left me spending time struggling to rescue them as best I could using gimp but there's really a limit to what you can do with poor photos.  read more ...

So yesterday was my birthday and, as I've done increasingly in recent years, I was having a birthday week and that day was off to Ely on the bus in search of amusement and pork burgers. As I left Pam, my 94 year next door neighbour, was opening the gates on her drive and said hello.  read more ...

Photo projects are all the rage these days. Some people, like my friend Paul, bravely set out to take a photo every day for a year but I'm still scarred by the memory of doing blog365 some years ago so I wasn't going to fall into that trap. So instead I thought I'd try for something a little less onerous and instead take at least one photo of everything that flowered in our back garden in 2014.  read more ...

Before I forget a few words in praise of MPB Photographic. I bought my D5100 body and my 18-200mm zoom from them last year in two separate transactions. Each time they used DPD UK for delivery who impressed me by delivering promptly in the one hour window specified and each item was exactly as described by MPB.  read more ...

Having sung the praises of the NEX-6 we now move on to the down sides and the biggest so far has been the failed promise of WiFi and the App Store, neither of which have delivered.  read more ...

Only a year after the last one, the lovely Nikon D5100 with the mighty 18-200mm zoom and I've weakened and bought another camera. What brought this about was a combination of things. First the Fuji X100. If you've seen it it's a gorgeous bit of camera bling and its successor, the X100s is even better.  read more ...

I walked down Fen Road to the Cam this morning expecting the fields to be starting to flood given reports I've seen only to discover that although the field opposite by Biggin Abbey was awash the river seemed to be going down as there was a definite "tide mark" of debris on the bank.  read more ...