I took a lot of photos today but I like none of them enough SOOC and B&W to post as my pic of the day - it's the first time (and I hope the last) that I have been in this dilemma! I have decided instead to post another image from yesterday which shows part of the actual industrial site of Les Forges de Paimpont, currently being preserved as a museum.
The image is SOOC and is part of my ongoing OCOLOY project - you can read more about it in my post for 1 January and in my profile. I'm also tagging this for B&W February.
Richard I shoot exclusively Fuji. I have the X100T and it is a wonderful camera. I use a Kaza case for it, great protection and nice looking with a nice leather strap. I also shoot the Fuji XT1 which is a fantastic camera also. The lenses for the interchangeable Fuji system are phenomenal. The 90MM tests as one of the sharpest lenses ever. Enjoy your year with your wonderful camera.
@pickerandagrinner What you see here are some of the industrial buildings which were the centre of the iron inustry in this area. Iron ore was mined, smelted and forged here for some 300 years. Over 100 families of charcoal burners lived an itinerant life in the forest providing charcoal for the blast furnaces. The most prosperous period was during the American civil war when the forges at Paimpont provided high quality forged iron to make weapons for the Union Army! The museum will commemorate that activity.
Fine on Fuji; I had read so much about the X100T that I just had to have one and I am enjoying using it but missing using my other cameras - I have both Nikon and Sony systems. I also have an X-Pro-1 and an XT10 but I haven't used either of them much - perhaps 3000 exposures on each. All in good time I guess.
Thanks very much for your interest and your comments - very much appreciated.
@vignouse Richard I was a "big brother". It is a program where one takes a fatherless boy under his wing. By the way, we used to practice together with film cameras 30 years ago and he is now a pro photographer living in Puerto Rico. His mom is from Brittany. She makes us the most delicious salad dressing and I will not spell its name right. Vichyssoise. Apple corrected it for me (I think).
The Brits were tacitly on the side of the Confederates. I visited Gettysburg two times last year. A very sobering place. Lincoln was one of the greatest men who ever lived. His Gettysburg Address stops me in my tracks to this day.
@pickerandagrinner What a wonderful thing to have been a 'big brother'. Well, yes, you spelled Vichyssoise correctly but it is a soup made from potatoes, leeks, onions, chicken stock and cream and is normally served cold - I'm sure she makes great vinaigrette as well!
Yes, the Gettysburg Address put a stake in the ground for the rights of all men that has seldom been bettered. Personally, I find Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech reduces me to tears everytime I hear it.
It would appear so Sebastian, but dropped twice in the space of a month, you never know what might have been weakened or damaged inside... I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Setting arbitrary rules for ourselves Richard.. even you are bound to struggle once in a while. Re dropping cameras, I am always concerned that I'll do that, as I drop everything else it seems. The other day I decided to count... gave up after an hour by which time I had dropped 15 things!
February 16th, 2016
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Fine on Fuji; I had read so much about the X100T that I just had to have one and I am enjoying using it but missing using my other cameras - I have both Nikon and Sony systems. I also have an X-Pro-1 and an XT10 but I haven't used either of them much - perhaps 3000 exposures on each. All in good time I guess.
Thanks very much for your interest and your comments - very much appreciated.
Kev @snaggy
Yes, the Gettysburg Address put a stake in the ground for the rights of all men that has seldom been bettered. Personally, I find Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech reduces me to tears everytime I hear it.
Abide with me; 'tis eventide.
The day is past and gone;
The shadows of the evening fall;
The night is coming on.