Tamara and I went to a recital at lunchtime – Three Concerti Grossi by Handel – played by twelve musicians on violin, viola, cello, double bass, and harpsichord.

Afterwards, while Tamara was in the shop at the Royal Ballet and Opera in Covent Garden, I went out to work with my Ricoh GRIII with its 28mm lens. I was inspired by a Paulie B video I saw yesterday when he interviewed Kazu Nakajima as they walked about Central Park.

You can find the video by searching YouTube for

‘On his way to Greatness — Walkie Talkie episode 79 with Kazu Nakajima‘ .

Kazu is a non-stop photographer. He just keeps on photographing all the time. And he inspired me.

I am pretty sure he shoots with a 28mm lens on his film camera. And it pushed me to shoot with my 28mm full-frame equivalent focal length on my Ricoh GRIII.

And everyone was out photographing on a very pleasant afternoon.

Things Kazu Said

One little side note is that Kazu’s photos have a particularly flat look with everything in mid tones. He explained that is the look he wants, which he achieves by overexposing and under-developing his film to emphasise the mid tones at the expense of the highlights and shadows.

He also mentioned at one point that he found that when he is photographing he is looking for scenes that could be from movies.

Interesting, no?

Still going through those old shots from Cairngorm’s Wildlife is this JPEG shot that for some reason has a lot of vignetting. I remembered the name but had to check the spelling of Przewalski.

The horse is recogniseable straight away because of the shape of its head and because the head is big for the body, and the body itself is stocky.

Przewalski’s horses also used to be at Marwell Safari Park but for the past twenty years the horses have been Eelmoor Marsh SSSI in Hampshire, near Farnborough, and managed by Marwell Wildlife.

Przewalski’s horses are the only truly a wild species. They are native to the steppes of Asia and their last home was on the Mongolian plains, but now extinct in the wild but being reintroduced. Were it not for wildlife parks like the Cairngorms and Marwell, that would be the end for them

They are the only truly wild horse, meaning not a wild horse descended from domestic horses, like for example mustangs.