Pints at Mennie’s

Here’s to fabulous pubs, and especially ones with ton of character, an excellent and wide-ranging selection of beers on draught and in the can, including an ever-rotating selection of cask ales, set in premises that feel like a fantastic(al) extension…

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Wandering Dundee – Autumn Walk

Continuing my recent theme of going walkabout in Dundee, Scotland, I’ve been capturing more autumn colours and coffeeshops. This batch I shot with a Fujinon XF60mm f/2.4. This macro lens, one of earlier lenses Fuji produced for its X series of…

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Autumnal Dundee With a Helios 44M

The autumnal colours in Dundee have spurred me into photographic action. For a recent walkabout I took a “vintage” Helios 44M lens, built in the Soviet Union — back when that was a thing. The 58mm lens, meaning it’s a short…

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Cafe Life: EH9 Espresso Baristas

Here’s to fantastic local coffeeshop EH9 Espresso on the Perth Road here in Dundee. Great coffee, atmosphere, also merch — so modeled here by Fraser the owner — with excellent baristas, including Samuel. Lovely place to hang or get takeaway. Kudos to…

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Vintage Autumn: Zeiss Tessar Lens Fun

What better time than autumn for some “vintage” glass? Reading Jonas Rask’s latest blog post about a new lens — always a treat — inspired me to dig out my Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm ƒ/2.8 ‘Zebra’ and again take it…

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