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Deep Shadows and a Purple Spectre
52-Week photography project March 2025
This month I’ve had plenty of opportunities to try the new Fujifilm X100VI. From a weekend in London to a week on the Baltic coast of Poland, the clear skies have yielded crisp images and deep shadows. And the iPhone has mostly stayed in my pocket!
10-It’s an uphill battle
Walking from Greenwich to Woolwich takes you past the Tarmac plant at Charlton. It’s the place to visit if you need “high-quality concrete”. At 3:30 pm the lowering sun cast deep shadows from these stairways, multiplying the sense of an uphill battle.
I used f/16 and dropped a third of a stop; it’s still sharp despite a shutter speed of 1/50.
11-A Fashion Ration
I’m in Poland this week, to learn Polish.
Sopot Pier has stretched into Gdańsk Bay (on the Baltic Sea) for almost 200 years. At 1,678 ft long, it’s the longest wooden pier in Europe. On a cold Saturday in…
