Christmas Is Coming! Swansea Christmas Parade 2025

And so another year passes and it is that time for the various Christmas Parades that take place this time of year. In the last previous years myself and the family have missed out on the main Swansea Christmas Parade, and have attended the smaller parade that takes place in Port Talbot. Well… This yearContinue reading “Christmas Is Coming! Swansea Christmas Parade 2025”

From Europe To USA (2010-2019): Looking back at a decade with a bridge camera.

In 2010 I purchased a bridge camera that still, to this day, is the camera that I owned for the longest amount of time. For a bridge camera, it was small, light and run on AA batteries, meaning that wherever I was in the world, I would never run out of power or need toContinue reading “From Europe To USA (2010-2019): Looking back at a decade with a bridge camera.”

Why Your Edited Images Look Different on Other Screens

It’s one of the most frustrating experiences in digital image editing: you spend hours perfecting a photo’s colour, saturation, and brightness on your screen, only to see it look completely different—often darker, less or much more vibrant, or with a colour cast—on a another device. This common problem isn’t due to your editing skills; it’sContinue reading “Why Your Edited Images Look Different on Other Screens”

My pocketable EDC was with me all along!

As many of you know from pervious posts, or from just knowing me, I have been on the lookout for a small, compact camera to take with me wherever I go. I had set my mind on a Ricoh GR IV, and then a Fuji X-M5, and then a friend of mine mentioned a cameraContinue reading “My pocketable EDC was with me all along!”

Monochrome only cameras – A curiosity or perfection?

With Ricoh announcing a monochrome only camera, and companies like Leica with their M11 and Q2 Monochrom and Pentax with the K3, you have to wonder why these monochrome only cameras exist, and would they be of interest to people? What is a digital monochrome camera? Digital cameras that only take photos in black andContinue reading “Monochrome only cameras – A curiosity or perfection?”