Learning About Cameras

By Kate Griffin
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“It’s like a light… there’s some lenses, only this time instead of pushing light out, you’re taking light in.”

Makes it sound so simple.  After many years of saying I should get a camera, my partner cracked, and got me a camera.  And there’s so much to learn.  And so many pictures to take!  And so much light to muck around with.  And a whole new way of looking at the world.

It’s going to take me years to get any good at any of that.  Thankfully, to make up for my lack of skill, there has been a lot of fog in London recently.

Christmas at Shakespeare’s Globe

Further proof that you need a tripod to do night shoots on the Thames.

This is not an authentic gate. I mean, it is. But it’s an authentic reconstruction of an authentic gate that wasn’t ever actually here.