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Sloane Square Breakfast

February 3, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

If you visited with us over a weekend while we lived in London, it’s likely that you joined us for breakfast in Colbert. It’s a restaurant that we often visited for breakfast but never went at any other meal times.

Peace descending on the Quadriga of War
atop Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner
Fuji X-T3 | MTO-11CA | 1600 mm | 1/4000s | f/10 | ISO 6400 | handheld (pano of 9 frames)
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: colbert, geology, street photography, walking, wellington

Full Circles

January 15, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I posted several photos to Instagram the other day. I decided on a theme: What is Red? My posts were in response to an ‘invitation’ to share red coloured photos with #capturecolors and @captureonepro in the captions of my posts. I thought to limit my post to photos taken in Ireland in 2020 and found six I liked. Submissions closed today and three Fuji cameras await the the best pictures posted with those tags.

  • Scanner & CaptureOne
  • Fuji X-T3 & Lightroom
  • Fuji X-T3 & Lightroom
  • Canon 1D-X & Lightroom
  • Canon 1D-X & Lightroom
  • Scanner & CaptureOne
What is Red? All images copyright Simon Robinson 2020
Instagram: simonscarves
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: capture one, photography, simonscarves, street photography, x-t3

Gingko Shot

November 25, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

This is the third ‘shot’ in three days and it comes from a London street. There’s a magnificent Ginko Biloba on Greencoat Place in Westminster that I watched for weeks until the leaves were right. Then the sun had to be right and I waited a day or two more. And so, at 11:05:42 this day last year I was standing beneath a yellow bough that is just higher than the single decked buses that pass three or four times an hour.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: street photography, travel, trees

On Chess and Cakes

September 24, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

The doorbell rang. Standing there, masked, was a highly ranked chess player. He was delivering a plated lemon drizzle cake. Almost surreal except that his very good wife had made it for us as a diversion from worrying about our daughter going through surgery at the time the cake arrived.

I searched my iPhone database for today’s date 0924
Dublin: Storm Coming 2010
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: baking, chess, david eagleman, encyclopaedia britannica, ioc, judit polgár, photos, street photography

A Week In Three Photos

July 30, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

The summer weather has not been kind here in Dublin. In a mock despair, we ended up doing a jigsaw puzzle on the kitchen table while it lashed rain. The puzzle took several days and it made an interesting photographic challenge once completed. How do you make a jigsaw interesting but different to the picture on the box? There are hundreds of ways but I wanted to do it with a tilt-shift adaptor on a 50 mm manual lens. I really like this photo with a focal emphasis on two tourists in front of an iconic London bus. It was raining there too.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: birds, comet, dun laoghaire, henri cartier-bresson, jigsaw, leonardo da vinci, moon, photo, popular, street photography

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