Just a quick test during my lunch break today.
A shot of the local railway building, and a 100% crop of part of the same shot below (click photo to view larger)
Hopefully I will get a better chance to test it at the weekend
Notice there seems to be quite a lot of smashed glass when reviewing my pictures taken last week with the GRD IV. I’m hoping it could now only be a matter of days before I get the Ricoh GR and have been told that stocks will be arriving on 22nd May. I have ordered and extra DB65 battery, and luckily it uses the same battery as the GRD IV.
First a smashed bus stop window at Norton Fitzwarren. I have made use of one of the 4 excellent B&W presets in Rawtherapee here.
An interesting design on a car roof in Leslie Avenue
A new hockey astro pitch being constructed at Taunton School
A new business in Goodland Gardens called “the shed” – hopefully a good sign as this area seems to have been sadly neglected over the years. Most towns with a river flowing through the centre will make the river a focal point for the town, but Taunton seems to have done the opposite – we have 2 ugly supermarkets occupying what could be prime riverside areas, and some gardens which are mainly used by drunks & druggies to hang out.
Finally some more smashed glass – looks like someone must have really had it in for Primark as almost all the windows had been smashed
Time for a look at some more “old” shots from my D700.
This group has a bit of a “dark” theme. At the end of 2011 I started using flash quite a bit and got a Nikon SB910, which I sold in favour of an SB24 which cost about 10% of what the former cost.
I also got a 28mm f/3.5 AI manual focus Nikkor lens at the same time which I still have.
Persian cat
Another persian cat
cat slippers
shop display in Bath
the Honiton Carnival
I’ve noticed the trouble with the Ricoh GRD IV is that because it’s such a small camera it literally goes everywhere with me, with the side effect that I end up with a lot of pictures, especially if I don’t download them off the SD card for a whole week!
I’m currently counting down the days till the Ricoh GR is released and it could be only a week or so now, but some reports say it might not be released till June, and others say 16th May.
A copper beech near the silk meadows estate
The silk meadows estate viewed from silk meadows
The wooded area of silk meadows
Construction of a new railway in Taunton
A new cycle path at Langford Mead estate
View from the railway footbridge at Norton Fitzwarren
The old Norton Fitzwarren trading estate
Shopping
Laden with bags
Under cover
Banana
Massive umbrella
Caught in a cloudburst
Running for cover
Soaked
Tatooed
Drink
Shopping
Ready for the rain
Free open top bus tour
Vintage bus exhibition and running event
I have noticed that the “ping graph” no longer seems to work since upgrading to FTTC, and I think it has something to do with IPv6 as if I view it on my mobile phone, which used IPV4 (when on 3G), the graph still works.
However I have found that by disabling ipv6 on the domain “a.gormless.aa.net.uk” this re-enables the graph.
I use the firefox addon http://www.hunen.net/4or6/ this allows you to disable ipv6 on a “per domian” basis.
First of all I select to globally disable ipv6 then restart firefox then browse to the page with the graph
The graph will show fine as ipv6 is disabled.
Then I right click on the graph and select “view image”
Then I select to disable ipv6 on “a.gormless.aa.net.uk”
Then I re-enable ipv6 globally which means that just the domain a.gormless.aa.net.uk is disabled for ipv6.
The graph will then work fine, but ipv6 will be used to view the page (apart from the image which will load over ipv4)
Amazingly for a bank holiday Monday the weather was not bad.
There was quite a bit of sea fog near the south Devon coast yesterday, especially round the Exe estuary, but there was still plenty of sun at Branscombe although there was some fog at times.
Branscombe has an excellent pub called The Masons Arms and they do an excellent pint of Proper Job and also their Dover Sole and Mash is not bad as is their Exe Mussels and Fries.
There is a nice path linking the pub with the beach as shown here
Once you get to the beach, if you turn left there is a steep slope known as the “stairway to heaven” and it certainly takes some climbing.
About a third of the way up you cross the track leading to the sea shanty caravan park.
It is worth it when you get to the top as there is an excellent view of Branscombe mouth, although a lot of fog was rolling in along the valley.
Once at the top there is a large plateau next to Hooken Cliffs, which is the highest part of the hill, midway between Branscombe and Beer.
On the top above Hooken Cliffs
If you look over the edge of Hooken Cliffs you can see the impressive undercliff area, which is like a wild jungle.
Canoes, making their way along the coast
