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Simon Hawketts' Photo Blog
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A blog about photography and other things
  • Favourite pictures – The accordion player
    Favourite Pictures

    Favourite pictures – The accordion player

    22 December 201428 February 2023

    This is one of those pictures which starts out as a colour picture which doesn’t really stand out, but once converted to black & white…

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  • Development

    Converting an old router using dd-wrt.

    21 December 201428 February 2023

    My Son is 12 years old and like most boys his age is heavily into Internet use for all sorts of pastimes ranging from games,…

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  • Miranda Sensomat RE 35mm slr camera
    Blogging

    Vintage camera collection – My top 5 35mm cameras

    21 December 20149 December 2024

    It was about 18 months ago that I bought my first ‘vintage’ 35mm camera. In those first few weeks I bought a number of cameras…

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  • My Miranda family
    Blogging

    My Miranda family

    30 November 201428 February 2023

    I decided a couple of weeks ago to concentrate my ‘camera collecting’ persona on two vintage camera makers for the next few months to try…

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  • Caffenol Trial No 2 duplicated negative - Stevenage old town
    Film Photography

    Caffenol trial no 2

    22 November 201428 February 2023

    I was fascinated last week to try my hand at developing film in caffenol. So fascinated that I decided I really needed to have another…

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  • The London Eye against a blue sky with clouds
    Family

    A day in London

    21 November 201428 February 2023

    These pictures are a couple of years old now – I took them during a family trip to the London Aquarium in August 2011 which…

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  • Sony NEX 6 high ISO performance sample pictures - The standard bearer @ iso6400
    Family

    Sony Nex 6 high ISO noise performance

    18 November 20149 December 2024

    I while ago I wrote a post about the low noise performance of the Pentax K-5 when used an high ISO and I thought it…

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  • Caffenol-C-M sample pictures - A girl with a camera
    Film Photography

    Fun with a tank of coffee

    15 November 201410 June 2025

    I first heard about developing film using coffee a few years ago and I must admit I assumed that it was an April Fools joke,…

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  • Sony NEX 6 with takumar and camdiox pictures - tree decorations
    Family

    Autumnal St Nicholas Church

    15 November 20149 December 2024

    I went over to St Nicholas church in Stevenage today to take some pictures with one of my Miranda 35mm film cameras, the Miranda Fv,…

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  • How depth of field in photography works
    Cornerstone

    How depth of field in photography works

    26 October 201424 March 2023

    An attempt to describe how depth of field (or depth of focus) in photography works.

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  • Tamron 10-24 wide angle sample pictures - Bike post in Fairlands Valley Park Stevenage
    Stevenage

    Autumn in super wide-angle

    19 October 201428 February 2023

    I decided to try out my Tamron super wide angle on my Sony Nex 6 to get some autumn pictures.

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  • One of the first photos I took with my new macro rig
    Trying out my new Macro rig for 2025
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    First Street Photography session – June 2025
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    Having fun Creating the Everything Vintage site
  • A screen shot of an Oxygen Builder session desiging a template
    My assessment of Oxygen Builder as a non-designer – Brilliant.
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