Family, Photography and other misc news
Now with the lighter nights its not just weekends we have now to catch up on the gardening. Monday night saw us planting seeds, grass cutting etc. The garden is now once again starting to look like someone looks after it and cares. When you both work full time and have busy lives, the little things like house work and the gardening can suffer.
Lincoln is now a very metropolitan city, the rural nature of the county and the crops needing seasonal cheap labour has brought many eastern europeans into the city with their families.
The university as well as bringing in young people from across the UK also brings in a lot of young European students and even students from China.
It certainly opens up the photographic opportunities, and has also improved the food thats available in the city.
Its been a while since we had a film Friday so here is one I took many years ago. It was either a Canon A1, AT or Nikon FM2 with 50mm lens. The film was Ilford HP5 Plus and its part of a series I did on urban landscapes back in the early nineties when a lot of the old Lincoln industrial factories were still around.
Now most have been knocked down and are shopping centres to housing estates. In the fleeting world we now live even some of those shopping centres have since been redeveloped again.
The Leica T had a refresh recently, now called the TL but we are still hearing rumours of a new TL code 5370 coming in the next few months. Details are few but the thing that people are saying is while small it will be slightly larger then the current TL and have 24 MP resolution.
If they can release a new TL with EVF about the size of the Leica Q and drop the price of the current TL that would be a good move, but we could all be wrong and this new camera could be the Leica X replacement.
This week Apple made the unusual step of having an informal chat to the press about future plans for professional users.
The lack of internal expansion was a major criticism of the new cylinder shaped MacPro. While I make good use of mine, I do have a lot of cables coming out the back linking to external cages of drive arrays for my storage and backup needs.
The old tower unit would likely have been more suitable for my expansion needs.
Apple have also seen a surge of orders for the old style laptops with the traditional ports and F key arrangement at the top.
According to rumours there has been a bit of a fight going on inside Apple about their professional products. Its well know that it is a small segment but its traditionally been viewed as important. Over the last few years though professional users have felt ignored, with few updates for the professional user and a focus on the iPhone and iPad, and more portable lower powered laptops.
It now seems that Apple are going to refocus on professional users, so I look forward in a couple of years replacing my MacPro with a far more expandable version.
We had a lovely quiet weekend. Saturday we just did little bits and bobs round the house, then walked to the new village tea room. We indulged with soup, hot chocolate , and then followed this up with chocolate cake. Then we walked back collected Timmy the Greyhound and popped over to the pub for a drink while Timmy enjoyed a treat.
Sunday we finally got to do some more major work in the veg plot. I dug over a couple of plots and then got the potatoes finally planted and watered in. The onions also needed a water, and Timmy then decided it would be fun to play long jump using the veg plot as his landing zone. Fun for Timmy but not to be encouraged.