First stream of 2025! W00T! Felt good to edit some photos. Most streams this year will be editing older photos from my travels, but I’m adding some variety – there will be some edits of newly scanned black and white photos, as well as occasional traveling I manage to do this year.
That said, last Friday I took a day trip to Cambridge and hoofed it around town for a few hours. I took around 50 photo using my Hasselblad X1D in 6×6 mode. I’m enjoying using square photos for street photography and it looks really fun when editing them. I streamed the editing for about an hour and a half, mixing in some IR photos I had left over from my trip to Malvern Hills in the Cotswold just before Christmas.
Photo of the Week goes to this shot. Absolute cracker!
Not much doing lately and I feel bad for neglecting the blog. Well, it’s not totally neglect, it’s a kind of “off on holidays” and other things I wish to do over the summer. Potentially big changes are afoot in terms of life as a photographer and human. Stay tuned for more info! 😉
That said, I have been active away from the blog and social media. So here’s the low down:
Bought me a drone!!!!! DJI Mini 4k. Sadly, I bought it just before the DJI Neo was released, but I’m happy with the purchase. Been goofing around and learning how to use it. I can see myself using it more for photography than for video, but I’m going to do a bit of both and tinker with it. Here’s a sample shot I took in Wales over the summer:
Snazzy! I like how easy it is to fly and the unique perspective I get from aerial photography. I’ll admit I was very nervous about buying/flying a drone, but it’s so simple really. I’m glad I took the leap and bought it.
I got a new camera coming too. MORE GEAR!! LOL … well, more … and less. I sold off a bunch of old lenses and stuff to finance the purchase. I’d bought a Lumix GX800 as a 2nd walk around camera so I didn’t have to carry the hasselblad all the time. However I’m just not happy with it. So I’ve swapped it out for a Leica T Type 701 (photos coming soon!) and a Summilux 23mm f2 lens. It’s wider than the Hassy, so it’ll give me a different perspective. Plus it’s a lot more compact, so I will use it as my goof about camera … and it’ll go to Thailand with me.
Shit! I forgot, I bought more gear! LOLOLOL … I traded in my ancient GoPro for a DJI Action 3. I’ve got two DJI products now (Action 3 and Mini 4k drone). They make good kit! The Action 3 is amazing and so versatile. I’ve got a waterproof mount for it and will take that snorkelling in Thailand too. So the Thailand trip is shaping up to be super busy – regular street photography throughout the day, drone photography some days and a few nights, and the Action 3 for goofing about and snorkelling. The snorkelling will be part of day trips, so I hope to get a good chance to photo and video the islands with the drone as well, when I’m not in the water.
Will add photos of the Leica when it arrives and the Action 3 in a future post when I’ve actually used it.
So that’s the news. A nice break over summer with some photos (mostly on the iPhone) and some on the Hasselblad as well. Those will be a future twitch stream and blog post.
Finally, I returned to photo streaming tonight. Had a blast going through 15 year old travel photos and chatting with viewers. I was loving the nostalgia and laughs of some of the crazy crap I got up to with my mate Craig in Australia.
