Lincoln

Lincoln, a photo by steve1401 on Flickr.

This is a view looking north up the river towards Lincoln Cathedral. The modern university building in the foreground contrasts with the 800-odd year old cathedral.

New ‘street’ group for Fuji owners over on Flickr

I have started a new group over on Flickr for Fuji using Street Photographers. Doesn’t matter which camera as long as it's Fuji, although the current ‘X’ series is gaining a bit of momentum inthe SP arena of late. The group is designed to try and maintain a level of quality and a forum where people can learn from their piers. So far it's a 6/day posting limit while things (hopefully) get going, but I may rethink that further down the line:

So , please come and see what life’s like on Fuji Street

X-Pro1 & X100 focusing - OK, I'm sure this has been covered before, but...

This is a story about focusing my cameras, just some waffle about the Olympics to set the scene at the beginning...

For those not in the know, the Olympic Games are coming soon over here in the UK (well, “London 2012” would suggest that the rest of the country just pays for it but has nothing to do with it) – anyhow, to keep the rest of the country at ease with it all the Olympic Flame has been doing the rounds.

My wife’s school had one of the torches for a day so that the children could have their photos taken with it. They're an infant school (age 5, 6, and 7) so probably a bigger deal for the parents than the kids I would imagine.

Some good websites and other web finds.

It's been a while since I have posted anything here - poor show me! Anyway, I have been collecting some useful website links and other snippets from the web over the last few months and thought they would be appreciated by others...

First off, a lot of this might be Fuji X series related as that is what I am now using: a Fuji X100 and a Fuji X-Pro1 with 35mm/f1.4 lens. Also, there will be a definite slant towards street and art photography.

And so in no particular order...

First up is 'White Sea Black Sea' by Jens Olof Lasthein:

http://photoslaves.com/jens-olof-lasthein/

Next we have In-Public. It's a website started up in 2000 as a place for street photographers to hang out. They have a manifesto to promote street photography - read it on their site here:

http://www.in-public.com/

Amercian Suburb X has a load of esseys about photographers from all over the world. Quite an arty site, with plenty of good stuff to keep your creative mind satisfied:

http://www.americansuburbx.com/

Came across LPV magazine recently. It is a site promotong its own electronic magazines, but there are numerous free issues worth downloading for a peruse:

http://lpvmagazine.com/

Another online magazine with some free downloadable PDF's - some good stuff too:

http://www.f8mag.com/

Someone on Flickr linked me to this PDF. It's a book called "On being a photographer" by David Hurn and it's essentially a conversation with Bill Jay. I haven't read it at time of writing this, but it looks promising:

http://leegrantphotography.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/on-being-a-photographer-3rd-edition-cd-version.pdf

A blog I follow called 'Dirty Blog'. Different and good - some good street stuff going on in here:

http://dirtyharrry.blogspot.co.uk/

There are many more and I will keep this post updated as and when I can...