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Leica APO Vario Elmar 55-135 F3.5 to 4.5 Zoom
Written by Steven Posted in Lenses.
It has been many years since I owned a telephoto zoom lens of any kind. Burned by poor quality third party zooms of the 1980’s, I have consistently ducked getting another and always opted for primes when requiring telephoto focal lengths. This changed when researching a recent trip to the eastern region of Halkidiki in Greece. Part of the itinerary was to visit the town of Ouranoupoli which is close to the border of the Monks Republic of Athos.
Halkidiki 2018
Written by Steven Posted in Collections.
We have recently returned from a two week trip around Halkidiki in Greece, specifically the north eastern areas of Olymbiada and Ouranoupoli. This is a rural and deeply religious area which remains fairly unspoiled by mainstream tourism. Roads are winding, forests dark and verdant, and summer storms spectacular. Above all it is peaceful and bucolic, a place where myth intertwines with history, and where fact and fiction are difficult to separate.
The Final Edit
Written by Steven Posted in Blogs.
As the years go by it has become apparent to me that Ethan and I take far too many digital pictures. Their stealthy monopolising of our hard disks has meant mandatory expansion not only of drive space in computers, but an equally costly exercise to maintain similar capacity of our backup solutions. Given that we retain three backups of our images (NAS, Cloud and secondary local storage solutions), a rational approach to image storage makes perfect sense.