The Heresy Continues

 As you are well aware, I'm no stranger to Black and White photography. If I could find a dedicated dSLR that shot in monochrome exclusively (and that I could afford...I'm looking at you Leica) I'd dump everything and use that for everything.

Well, I got close, these shots are not from my Nikons, but rather a new camera I picked up with some birthday money (thanks!) It's an Olympus OM-D E-M5, certainly a mouthful, and an interesting camera. It's tiny, like too-small-for-my-hands level of tiny, but with the battery grip, it fits, barely. It's micro four thirds format, and has a host of "art" filters built in, one of which is "grainy B/W", of which you see here.

There is a learning curve to using a new camera, and I'm looking forward to seeing what it can do but so far, I'm impressed with it.

Richmond Colour Run

 As you can see, a whole lot of happy faces here. This was a 5 kilometre fun run for charity. No time limits, just start in white and end up as multi-coloured happiness. I ran the race last year for time, this year just for the fun of it, stopping for the in-run pics. I didn't have a Nikon body to use this year, so I used my emergency backup, a Canon 10d. It held up well and was reasonably accurate in focus. A lot colder this time around than last one, but the results were well worth it.

Lotus

Yeah it's a flower, and I don't shoot flowers, I find them boring (unless it's an orchid or something carnivorous in the act of eating.)

This was meant as a throwaway shot, testing out my son's new camera (A Canon 10d. Shhhhh! Don't tell no one I've touched Canon gear) but it came out well enough to put up here.