Camera shopping at Canterbury Camera Centre

 I have been trying to use the internet and various chain camera shops to uprate my bridge cameras, well you know that sinking feeling when you realise the guy in the shop, perhaps the butchers, turns out to to be a vegan? Anyway Canterbury Camera Centre; enthusiastic and knowledgeable staff. 

A good range of cameras, ancient and modern.

Highly recommended, right by Waitrose, up the McDonalds end of Canterbury, underpass by Wilkinsons and 5 min walk or Waitrose car park.

A few historic Thanet photos

 These should expand if clicked on, I think this one is of the Empire Bandstand so before the one we have now which dates from the late 1920s

 I suppose the photos speak for themselves, saying different things to different people 

 This one is of the lido in Cliftonville Margate during the 1953 tidal surge storm

Link to the books we put out in the bookshop yesterday

I spent a fair amount of today trying to get a better camera, this wasn't really successful - however I learnt a lot about digital cameras. I think the main thing being that when it comes to electronic technology, cameras, phones, computers, TVs - we have come to a bit of an improvement slowdown or stop.

My own take on this is that as we are so much interlinked with technology and to an extent the improvement in technology from about 1995 to 2012 and it is looking to me like not much improvement from 2012 to 2018 there may be some serious implications.

Next various attempts to take a photo of the inside of a mask so it doesn't look like the outside, this is fairly easy to do if you show part of the real outside, and part of my interest in optical illusions, all of the photos below are of the inside, back of the same mask, they should all expand if you clcik on them

 

Watching paint wosisname and other pictures

I skived for a painting lunch at Spoons aka The Royal Victoria Pavilion, the top being after and the bottom before - the spot the difference situation leads me to feel you may need telling. 

Watercolour and paper is an odd combination when it comes to rubbing stuff out, so it's best to add a little at a time. I think the picture may already be in the paper and just need revealing, anyway I got some sort oblivion while painting and am now surprised by the buildings appearing more wosisname.

Mi panorama from the Pav aka Spoons was a bit pedestrian due to not being able to see the phone screen

This is the link to the full size file School holiday early afternoon, luverly day, 'bout 2 and not that busy on the sands

 The view from the cafe culture is mostly the sides of cars, which don't seem right

 Far too much traffic coming on to Harbour Parade, realising it goes nowhere and going out again, so far more traffic than need be.

 I moaned at the mayor and town clerk about this as the were both there.

prapz the dead end sign needs to be at the entrance and not at the dead end

Some sort of bird in the harbour

and other photos on the camera card for today this is the link to them

Historic local photos next

 The sundeck one says 1933 onit,

 Never seen the henge around the fountain before, it says 1929 on the file, presumably derived from the postmark

Just finished supper and adding a photo for any aspiring art critics, well to be honest mostly for my own record 

I really do think that this must be one of the best places to paint from in the UK

I am reading Murakami again, so guess anything could come out of the woodwork