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I was waiting for a camera that would come along that I could potentially use at weddings, but primarily, that I could use as my “go to” camera and leave around the house to capture the kids running around. I have found the perfect camera for that. It’s the Fuji FinePix X100.

Street photography is all about making a visual record of our era and I think it does this better than anything else. Television is filtered and polished and often there’s an agenda. So too with newspapers and magazines. But street photography is honest, unposed and speaks volumes

With it’s abundance of wildlife, it’s hard for me to not like Florida. Added to that the sub tropical climate and stunning beaches, I challenge any wildlife photographer to dislike the sunshine state. Words and pictures simply can’t do it justice, you need to see it for yourself. The light there is simply beautiful.

Today Nikon announced the latest addition to their lens line-up, the DX-format Nikkor 40mm f/2.8 G. This micro lens boasts a true 1:1 reproduction ratio, minimum focusing distance of 0.163m (from focal plain) as well as the large maximum aperture of f2.8, making it a promising Macro lens.

The Free Range Show, held in London’s East End is always a favourite of mine. Hosted in the Old Truman Brewery building off Brick Lane, the rolling show is held annually from May until July. The show features a wide range of arts, presented by students from colleges and universities from around the UK, who each take a show space for a limited slot.

Alongside the announcement of the new E-P3 this week, Olympus also launched a new generation PEN Lite in the form of the E-PL3 as well as a brand new addition to the PEN family: the PEN Mini, aka the E-PM1. Both are expected to be availble in Autumn 2011 with pricing yet to be confirmed.

The Olympus Pens launched a renaissance for photography, an anti-nerd emphasis on the camera as man’s image making friend. Capturing the moment is capturing the mood and that’s not just what you see so adding Art Filters made perfect sense for Pen photographers. New ones have been arriving steadily but I could have lived without them until… now!

For this month, I’ve got a great story for you. It’s a tale about how an east end lad who left school at 14, became a great sixties photographer and went on to marry a famous Hollywood film star. The man in question is of course Terry O’Neill. His work of the period, shot in both black and white and colour, encapsulates that era perfectly and the famous people he shot reads like the pages of Who’s Who.

The May WEX Gallery competition theme was ‘Call of the Wild’ and I must admit we were pretty excited about seeing some impressive entries. We certainly weren’t disappointed, the quality of images submitted was very high and it was definitely a tricky one to judge.

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