After last week’s spectacular winter frost and mist s we’re back to the standard grey wintery days we get in this part of Yorkshire. Flat grey sky, damp, not particularly cold, all the leaves and plants are rotting or brown, everything is muddy – just dull, Not really great for taking photos’. Plus, it’s the run up to Christmas, so free time is rare but I am planning to get out on the moors tomorrow morning, even if it’s just for some quiet time and fresh air. I’ll take a camera – just in case.
More New Gear
My faithful old (2014) Mac mini gave up on me last week. Absolutely gutted as it’s been with me for so long, but it was getting slow, especially when running Lightroom. So, I ordered a new one. As it wasn’t the standard spec (I wanted as much RAM as possible) I had to order it from Apple’s web site, but it came all the way from China in a week. I’m very impressed with it. The M1 chip and extra Ram make it blazingly fast. It makes my 2020 MacBook Pro look slow and that was the highest spec 13-inch model at the time. I hooked it up to my Apple AirPort Time Capsule (yes, I still use one of those – I think they should still make them) and loaded my last Time Machine back up, and it was ready to go in no time. Hopefully, that’s the last I’ll need to spend on photography gear in a while now. It’s been an expensive year. That said, I would quite like a Macro lens…..
Weather permitting I’ll get something worth photographing tomorrow. If not, lots of plans for next year already in the pipeline.
Shaun Madill Photography 