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Tough sking in La Vallée Perdue, Tignes

18 January 2012 | Comments | 0 notes |

Tough sking in La Vallée Perdue, Tignes

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re·spon·sive

Adjective: Reacting quickly and positively.

I’m happy to say that the redesigned look and feel for the site is up and running – this was one of my new year’s resolutions and I’m proud to say that it’s only taken a week to get it coded from scratch to live on the site.

I have to give some credit to the great Tumblr custom theme documentation, Twitter Bootstrap and the amazingly useful 320 and up project. There are so many great frameworks out there for kickstarting your development and I highly recommend giving them a look. The Twitter Bootstrap in particular (version 1.4.0 at present) has an upcoming 2.0 update which introduces fully responsive CSS.

Anyway – I hope you like the new look. If you have any comments, or spot a bug, send me a tweet or leave a comment.

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Stealthy but patriotic. A new patch for my GORUCK GR1.

10 January 2012 | Comments | 3 notes |

Stealthy but patriotic. A new patch for my GORUCK GR1.

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I agree that Instapaper is fantastic on the iPad and excellent on the iPhone/iPod touch, but wouldn’t a Kindle like device that downloaded only your Instapaper articles, as you saved them, be a fantastic device?

I disagree – I think that the iPad is the perfect Instapaper device.

While the Kindle undoubtedly has a better ‘reading’ experience than the iPad, if you want to follow any links from one of the articles in your Instapaper feed (or look at the images), then the e-ink display on the Kindle is no match for an iPad.

What I would love to see is a way for the iPad to automatically download your newly added Instapaper articles once a day in a similar way to how they are delivered to a Kindle.

That would make an iPad my perfect Instapaper reading device.

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There’s no denying that Fuji’s X-Pro 1 is a great looking camera, but I still think the X100 has the edge. That said, I’m sure this will solve many of the X100’s issues around focus speed and user interface.

I think this is a glimpse at the future of the DSLR world, particularly for advanced amateurs. The Micro 4/3s cameras have sensors that are too small for people who are serious about their photography or those who shoot in low light. By using a larger sensor, Fuji can get great image quality and low light performance and by using a small body with their best-in-class hybrid viewfinder instead of a ‘through the lens’ approach, they stand to really beat the crowd to the market. I can’t wait to try one.

(via PetaPixel)

9 January 2012 | Comments | 4 notes |

There’s no denying that Fuji’s X-Pro 1 is a great looking camera, but I still think the X100 has the edge. That said, I’m sure this will solve many of the X100’s issues around focus speed and user interface.

I think this is a glimpse at the future of the DSLR world, particularly for advanced amateurs. The Micro 4/3s cameras have sensors that are too small for people who are serious about their photography or those who shoot in low light. By using a larger sensor, Fuji can get great image quality and low light performance and by using a small body with their best-in-class hybrid viewfinder instead of a ‘through the lens’ approach, they stand to really beat the crowd to the market. I can’t wait to try one.

(via PetaPixel)

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Lantern on Flickr.

Taken with the Fuji X100. I love how good this camera is in low light.

9 January 2012 | Comments | 0 notes |

Lantern on Flickr.

Taken with the Fuji X100. I love how good this camera is in low light.

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Second Crack →

6 January 2012 | Comments | 0 notes |

I particularly love the FAQ section.

If I ever get too fed up with Tumblr, I may give something like this a go. For now, Tumblr is more than adequate for my needs.

(Via The Brooks Review)

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The colours and composition of this are just perfect. It’s surprisingly difficult to take a photo of an all black bag and still get the correct exposure for the background.

Plus, it’s proof that I’m not the only one who takes pictures of my bag to share on the internet…

(via Goruck GR1 Backpack Makes the Grade - Matt Hyatt -)

29 December 2011 | Comments | 81 notes |

The colours and composition of this are just perfect. It’s surprisingly difficult to take a photo of an all black bag and still get the correct exposure for the background.

Plus, it’s proof that I’m not the only one who takes pictures of my bag to share on the internet…

(via Goruck GR1 Backpack Makes the Grade - Matt Hyatt -)

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Skiing with a GORUCK GR1

27 December 2011 | Comments | 4 notes |

I’ve water tested GORUCK’s bags here before but I haven’t before had the opportunity to use one in the snow. That all changed last week when I experienced Alpine snowfall at its finest while skiing in Avoriaz, France.

Read on to see how the GR1 coped.

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Old, meet new.

— Olympus OM10 and Fuji X100
  • Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
  • Aperture: f/2.8
  • Exposure: 1/30th
  • Focal Length: 50mm

27 December 2011 | Comments | 4 notes |

Old, meet new.

— Olympus OM10 and Fuji X100