#hollanders bridge

[brownhillsbob]

December 19th - I came back through Walsall Wood and up over Castlefort as I had to nip into Stonnall. I’ve been using the TZ100 all week. After trying some night shots from Hollanders Brindge in Walsall Wood, I’ve decided - I prefer the Canon.

This is momentous. I’ve used Panasonic cameras mostly for 10 years. But the TZ100? It takes good pictures. It’s low light performance is good. It’s not a bad camera. But it’s too like the TZ90 in user interface and features, and it’s lagging the G7X in usability, and I think, just a little in picture quality too.

Whatever succeeds the TZ100 needs to plough a different enough furrow to make it feel better. It doesn’t, particularly.

[brownhillsbob]

December 2nd - Again passing through the Wood, this time to Screwfix, it was a grim, miserable, drizzly dank day - but at least it was much, much warmer than in previous days.

The ice was melting, and some of the less religiously inclined types were relishing their fast diminishing ability to walk on water...

[brownhillsbob]

#365daysofbiking The blue period:

December 28th - A stretch up to Walsall Wood on my way to Aldridge in one of those remarkable but fairly rare blue dusks we sometimes get at this time of year.

There must be a meteorological or astronomical reason for them, but I have no idea other than the fact that they are really, really beautiful. The view from Hollanders Bridge glowed in the cold night.

Reall,  really gorgeous.

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