Continuation from Part One here. Tsukiji Fish Market One of the areas in Tokyo that I always try and visit is the Tsukiji fish market area. Although this area in Tokyo has been a fish market since 1935, after the previous fish market was relocated here following the major earthquake […]
Summicron 28mm
My final trip for 2013 was to Japan. We set off on the day after Christmas, and spent the New Year holiday there, returning in the first week of January. The plan was to spend a couple of nights in Tokyo, then spend New Year in Nagano Prefecture, and then […]
In November I needed to be just outside Washington DC for a training course, so decided to make use of the long distance travel by arriving a couple of days early and spending the weekend before walking around Washington, and then take the train from Washington DC to New York […]
The first Leica prototypes were built by Oskar Barnack at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke, in Wetzlar, in 1913 (wikipedia). At the time, Barnack’s intention was to build a small, compact camera that could be carried by landscape photographer to enable them to take photos without having to carry the heavy […]
In September I visited the famous village of Kinderdijk. Kinderdijk is a village in the Netherlands, belonging to the municipality of Molenwaard, in the province South Holland, about 15 km east of Rotterdam. Kinderdijk is situated in a polder in the Alblasserwaard at the confluence of the Lek andNoord rivers. To drain the polder, a system of 19 windmills was built around 1740. This group of mills is […]
It’s always nice to take a wander around the streets and canals in Amsterdam, and recently during a break from work I had a chance to do so on a couple of occasions during the week, when the city is a little less crowded. I moved to the Netherlands 16 […]