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Cerne Abbas

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In November 2023 we travelled to the ancestral home of the Paulley family, the quaint, quintessentially English village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, south-west of London. The name Cerne Abbas comes from the River Cerne and the original Benedictine abbey that was founded there in 987. The abbey was subsequently destroyed by decree of Henry VIII when abbeys were eradicated from England as King Henry abandoned the Catholic church and created the Church of England. The main church in the village, now Anglican, is dedicated to St. Mary and was […]

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Acropolis

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This morning I toured the Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum in Athens. For my trip I had planned to shoot 35mm Ilford FP4+ and Kodak Tri-X, and so had taken along my Canon Elan 7 with my Canon 24-105L IS zoom, with my old Canon Rebel and a Canon 50mm for backup. However, the website for the Acropolis Museum wasn’t enthusiastic about bringing camera bags to the museum – the Museum does not permit photographs whatsoever – so I left the gear at my hotel and went to the Acropolis

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Notre Dame – Paris

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This past September I attended a Dagstuhl workshop on Robust Query Processing, and chose to fly in and out of Paris rather than Frankfurt. On the weekends bookending the workshop I stayed at the Select Hotel in St. Germain, across the street from the famous Sorbonne. Luckily, the University was open to the public that weekend for tours and photographs, and I certainly took my share while I was there. For the trip I took my Manfrotto tripod, my favourite Mamiya C330S with 55mm, 105mm, 135mm, and 180mm lenses and

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