A summer of photos, and a new camera

Right, a bit of catching up to do - this post contains several sets of photos from the last few months - this is a re-post of several posts I put up earlier as I thought it better to lump them together into one. St Mary Redcliffe Back in April I bought a new camera - a Fuji X-T20, and this was the first trip out with it. Given that my office at the time was pretty much next door to St Mary Redcliffe, it was nice and simple to drop in one lunchtime. I'd worked there for over 10 years and this was the first time I'd been in to take photos... The main reason for looking at the Fuji was practicality - when we went to Cornwall last year, I found I was leaving some of the Nikon kit behind because it was so damn heavy and it's just daft to have kit and not use it. I'd been looking at...
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Easter 2015, Bristol

Catching up on some photos that I took over Easter, pretty much the first photos I've taken in about 6 months. First up I went to Coombe Dingle at the bottom end of the Blaise Estate for some slightly dark and slightly depressing landscapes. Then on the Sunday I had a wander along the river at Avonmeads. Not the most picturesque bit of the river by any means and I wasn't looking for beauty - more like urban gritty, which I found to a certain degree with plenty of graffiti. Following that I went in to Arnos Vale Cemetery, somewhere I've not been for years. They have done a lot of work on clearing it up, although there is still an awful lot of it that is badly overgrown - but that's the appeal to me! " order_by="sortorder"]...
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