The Giant Lollypop! Amazon is increasingly outward looking. She sees things in the distance and decides that she wants to try them. Earrings, wrist-watches, shoes and other feminine stuff are common targets of her attention. So are sweets. This lolly, found in Turunç, must be pure sugar and artificial food colouring. We let her buy [...]
Amazon Bray, 24mm OM Zuiko on E-400 I like this lens and camera combination. It’s good to experience direct focus again, but is direct focus good enough? This image of Amazon looks pretty good, but it’s her hair and the bridge of her nose that’s in focus, rather than her eyes. You won’t notice that [...]
Whoops, Spain Declares War on PebblesFromParadise or Perhaps is Bungling Incompetent! I’ve been getting e-mails from Sir Michael Carr-Jones protesting that he’s unable to access pebblesfromparadise.com from Spain. Naturally I thought this was due to some kind of error, or virus in his computer. Pebblesfromparadise.com is an innocuous little journal, mainly full of fun, and [...]
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Stephen Jeremy Maxwell Bray lives with his wife Irem, and daughter Amazon at Amos, Turunc near Marmaris, Turkey..
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