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they have had some really good ones over the years - i liked the grayson perry one a couple of years ago - i think it was called the best exhibition ever

I was there on Tuesday - I usually like to pop into the Arnolfini on my way to the Beer Factory when I'm in Bristol and they have some pretty unusual exhibits

Knife Angel - Taunton - Canon 5D / Nikon 28mm f/3.5AI / Fuji EF-X 20 Flash

It was super windy yesterday which I quite like as I think it kept the crowds away from the beach - the north end of the beach was far less windy than the Woolacombe end where the RLNI were on duty

Surfers at Putsborough Sands - Canon 5D Mk1 / Nikon 28mm f/3.5AI

Horner woods in Somerset - Canon 5D with Nikon 28mm f/3.5AI

nesting crows at wimbleball lake

Less is more - I could happily live with just my trusty 28mm prime - it would be ideal for hiking - super light and great for landscape type shots

I would imagine for a business that is 99.9% mail order it would be a big cost to have a customer facing reception area and staff to keep it permanently manned - similar to many restaurants that are going 100% online only known as 'dark kitchens'

MPB have been very good service wise - Recently used them to buy a 5D Mk1 and they had loads at good prices - Thought I would order a cheap Canon lens to go with it then realised I had a perfectly good Nikon lens and just needed an adapter so asked them to cancel the lens - they had already...

the quality of a mobile phone camera might be very good but for me it's all too automated - i prefer to manually focus, set the aperture & shutter speed which would all be quite difficult on a phone - also prefer an optical viewfinder to using a screen

i run a vps to host my own email and domains however i have always had an issue with outbound email deliverability - i have used AWS (amazon web services) SES (simple email service) for the last few months for outbound email and it seems to work very well - it's free for 12 months then a very...

really just malt & cigars - my needs are quite simple to accommodate

is it the m2 or the m2pro? apple's site shows £1049 for the m2 and £1399 for the m2pro (both with 16gb/512gb)

i have tried things like facebook flickr and instagram but tend to get bored posting to them - a personal website seems to work best for me - i used to use wordpress which is one of the most popular platforms but now use drupal as i prefer it for usability