Last week, Mathieu and I ticked off a big item on our bucket list: seeing and photographing the puffins on Skomer Island in South Wales. Every year between April and August, these beloved birds flock in the thousands to the island to breed, only to return to the sea for the rest of the year once […]
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Silver Studded Blue Butterflies at the Great Orme – A Lumix GX80 / OM-D E-M1 Gallery
My family has the quirky tradition of tracking down and photographing a new species of butterfly every summer. This year, we settled upon the Silver Studded Blue, so named for the light blue reflective scales on the underside of its wing that glint in the sunlight. Most colonies are scattered along the southern coast of the […]
Panasonic Leica 12mm f/1.4 Sample Images and First Impressions
The very first mirrorless lens we ever bought was the M.Zuiko 12mm f/2 for our Olympus OM-D E-M5 and for the longest time, it was the only lens we owned for the system. Though we’ve since sold it and the E-M5 to fund other gear, it is still one of our favourite primes because of […]
Panasonic 100-400mm f/4-6.3 Sample Images from Ynys Hir in Wales
Cover photo taken with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 at f/6.3. Yesterday we received the brand new Panasonic Leica 100-400mm lens to review. Knowing that the good weather wouldn’t last long, I spent all of yesterday afternoon and this morning at our favourite natural reserve in Wales, Ynys Hir. I collected a good variety of images, so I […]
Photographing the Super “Blood” Moon Lunar Eclipse with the Panasonic GX8
Last night, we and the rest of the world were witnesses to an event that only happens a few times per century, a super blood moon lunar eclipse. To give you an idea of the infrequency of this event, the last one happened before Mathieu and I were born and the next one won’t happen until […]