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Lunch in the tea-room at Abkhazi Gardens, Victoria
Abkhazia is a very small country (population 245k) on the Black Sea (wedged between Russia and Georgia). Prince Nicholas of Abkhazia was living in exile in Paris in 1922 where he had fled from the Bolshevik revolution, when he met Peggy Pemberton-Carter. They spent some time together and then kept up correspondence afterwards. During WWII,…
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Another day in Victoria
We went to the Angkor exhibit at the museum and the IMAX on the same topic – then a walk along the Gorge. I went over to Craigdarroch Castle – just to take some photos of the outside. It’s not that interesting in colour but drop the exposure a bit and switch to black &…
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How many megapixels do you need and who really cares
If you look at cell phones: the Motorola 30 edge ultra has a 200 MP camera. iPhone 15 Pro Max has 3 cameras: one 48 megapixel and two 12 megapixel cameras. What does that all mean? Providing a telephoto on a cell phone is a bit of a problem since you don’t want the lens…
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