Category Archives: photo

Daily photo (4) dear neighbours



dear neighbours, originally uploaded by rachelandjohn.

Friendly and happy neighbours have a bit of banter with us over breakfast

Daily photo (3b) St Pancras New Church



St Pancras Old Church, originally uploaded by rachelandjohn.

A dead heat with the previous post, I’ve often wanted to photograph these ladies and today the light was ideal! [Thanks to PD for the edit]

Daily photo (3a) table stripe



table stripe, originally uploaded by rachelandjohn.

A dead heat today, between this and the next post…

New camera

brooding Barbican

3 alarms

Barbican grime

Blackwall ripples

© 2009 John Fitzgerald

Megapuzzling megapixels

Am pondering my camera setup at present. My ‘ancient’ Nikon DSLR (ca. 4 years old) is noticeably outclassed in the image quality department by a compact which was about 1/6th the price!

Current ‘serious’ compacts (such as Canon G10, Lumix LX-3) offer about twice the resolution of my DSLR for half the price it cost me back in 2005. The worry is that if megapixel counts keeps growing, I’ll be looking at updating again in another 3 years.

The rising tide of Moore’s Law makes me nostalgic for film. Not too much though, processing and scanning was such a faff!

New skin

The new cover image is the ceiling of an otherwise ordinary conference centre in Vienna.

Crack in the floor

At Tate Modern today, saw Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth. ShibbolethLiked it.