Photography
Garden birds in a morning blizzard after a freezing night where the air temperature stayed at -3.9°C.
The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow,
And what will poor robin do then, poor thing?
anon, 16th Century
This robin is doing fine despite today’s snow, having just eaten some seeds from my garden bird table and taken a quick bath, he’s now fluffed up and posing for his beauty shot, well aware of me and my camera.
Photos of Eastbourne taken yesterday
An experimental visit to Eastbourne pier and sea front to try out a homebrew Edwardian photographic look.
Roll film was first available in the 1870s but it was Kodak’s Box Brownie range of cameras, first marketed in 1900, which popularised holiday snapshots in the photographic postcard format, 6”x4”. This was Eastbourne’s heyday; my set from a visit yesterday with a modern camera, aims to model this look.
Ragotin in the lake at Parc Borély, Marseille. A plant-eating river rodent, similar to a beaver, known variously as Nutria or Coypu.
