Terry Baldwin's Blog

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During my visit to Battersea power station one of the attractions as I mentioned in a previous Blog is a lift has been built into the centre of one of the chimneys. Personally I think that the view from on top of the chimney is much better than from the London Eye.

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One of the attractions at old Battersea Power Station is that you can ride in a lift in the centre of the chimney to the top of it. When to get to the top you are approximately 100M above ground level and the view of London is amazing. The Picture for today’s Blog is the view from the lift traveling up the inside of the chimney.

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Another picture from my trip to London, Big Ben. The last couple of times that I have visited London, Big Ben has been covered in scaffolding hiding the beautiful clock face.

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I didn’t realise The National Covid Memorial Wall existed. The wall surrounds St Thomas Hospital on the river Thames side of the hospital. The wall seems to go on forever…………….. so sad

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Yesterday was a trip to the Imperial War Museum.

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On Friday I spent the day at Battersea power station. Which now has turned into a very trendy shopping centre.

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When I mean addicted to pens, I mean fountain pens. There is something very special writing with a fountain pen.

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I seem to be addicted to pens……..

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Today somebody asked me what I carried in my pockets. I emptied out my pockets and below is what I carry in them.

Beaten up old Bellroy Note Sleeve wallet with debit and credit cards, driving licence and some cash typically about £30.

A chrome Fisher Space Pen

SanDisk 16GB memory stick

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Another hobby of mine is small-bore rifle shooting.

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In an earlier picture I showed examples a two different types of Morse keys. Todays picture is of my first Morse key, the key is known as the “Swedish Key”. It’s made from solid brass and has tarnished over the years.

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When will this cold weather end……………

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Today’s picture is another motorcycle picture. I wounder how many of you can recognise the marque ?.

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I’m running abit behind this week.

Yesterday’s picture is a mystry picture. Please comment if you know what it’s used for.

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In yesterdays Blog picture the camera I featured was an Olympus Pen E-P1 digital camera.

The camera I’m featuring today is an Olympus Pen F 35mm single-lens reflex film camera produced between 1963 and 1966. The camera is a half-frame camera, Half frame means that the camera uses an 18×24 mm vertical portrait format, producing twice the pictures on a roll of 135 film as the regular 36×24 mm format. So a roll of 36 exposure film would in fact give you 72 exposures !.

Yesterdays picture of my Olympus Pen E-P1 was the first Micro Four Thirds digital camera made by Olympus based on the original Olympus Pen F 35mm single-lens reflex film camera.

Why is this camera so very special, it belonged to my late Father-in-Law Brian Scull.

In the summer I am intending to put a film through the camera and I’ll share my results.

Olympus Pen F 35mm single-lens reflex film camera

Olympus Pen F 35mm single-lens reflex film camera with optional light meter fitted.

Both camera’s side by side.

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Over the years as one does (or perhaps it’s just me) I have collected a few camera’s, over time I will share some pictures of the camera’s that I have collected.

Tonight’s picture is of the first digital camera I owned. The camera is an Olympus Pen E-P1.

I’m not saying more about the camera but it’s linked to tomorrow night’s picture, Betty tomorrow night’s picture is for you.

I’ve recently purchased a photo light box to help take pictures for my Blog, the picture below shows the light box in use for today’s picture.

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I currently work in Wendover, today I thought that I would share the view I have of the Chiltern hills from my office window.

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I just happened to be looking for something in my garage and a found the badge featured in today’s picture.

Working for Kodak Ltd in Harrow was a huge part of my life. Over the years various badges were given out to celebrate things, I can’t remember why we given the badge in today’s photograph, perhaps is was something to-do with WW P231 Project.

The words on the badge read “Emulsion Manufacturing – Where Quality is in the making“. The first part of the process to make photographic emulsion was called Making and was made in a vessel called the Maker, so perhaps it was to mark the WW P231 upgrade of all the Making vessels at the various sites around the world.

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I had intended take my camera to St Albans today, but the persistent rain decided me against taking it. It was abit of a disappointment to say the least as I had hoped to get some good pictures.

So I had to make do with a walk over the local Amazon Hub to pick a parcel.

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Today has been a better day weather wise, no rain and blue sky’s, with the added bonus of not working today. I have managed to take a few pictures in the garden. Probably like most of you over the years we have all collected a few garden ornaments. Over the coming weeks I’ll will feature the ones in our garden. I thought it only appropriate introduce the ornament that we have had the longest and my favourite.

Meet Nobby the gnome.

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Today’s picture reminds me that Christmas is a distant memory. Only Gaynor’s homemade Christmas wreath decaying in the garden serves me as a reminder of Christmas.

Two images today.

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This evening I was sorting out the many pictures that I have saved on my hard disk. I found this image of a rainbow and it immediately reminded me of summer.

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I’ve had to cheat for todays picture, I used my iPhone to take a picture of the camera that I’m using to take the picture for the Blog.

The camera that I’m currently using to take the pictures for my Blog is an Olympus OM-D E-M1 a Micro Four Thirds Digital camera, the lens is a 12-40mm f 1:2.8 PRO lens.

https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/olympus-om-d-e-m1

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My parents have always had dogs, but we have always had cats, more recently one breed in particular.

Meet Matilda or shortened to Tilly our pedigree Bengal female cat.

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Today’s picture is a change of subject.

Another interest I have is motorbikes, both old and new.

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Yesterday we spoke about Morse code. Morse code is one of the ways that radio amateurs communicate with each other. Morse code is often referred to as CW or Continuous wave. Another method that amateurs communicate with each other is using a microphone. There are three methods of communicating using a microphone and they are;

Single Side Band (SSB) split into either Upper Side Band (USB) or Lower Side Band (LSB)

Frequency Modulation (FM)

Amplitude Modulation (AM)

I’ll describe CW, SSB, FM and AM in more detail in future Blogs.

Icom hand microphone

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Some of you may or may not know that I have held a full UK Amateur Radio licence for over 40 years. I’m going gradually to talk about the hobby in my Blog and start to create a webpage about my interest in Amateur Radio.

Today I’m going to briefly cover Morse Code.

Morse Code what is it ?. Morse code was invented during the 1830’s by Samuel F.B. Morse. Morse Code uses an arrangement of dots, dashes and spaces to represent letters of the alphabet, numbers and punctuation marks. Below are two examples of Morse keys. The key on the right is a straight key, you press the black knob up and down to send the dots and dashes (or dits and dahs). The key on the left is a paddle key, you press the left red paddle to get a dit and the right red paddle to get a dah.

Two Begali Morse keys. On the left is a Begali Simplex paddle key and on the right is a Begali Blade straight key.

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We recently bought some more bird feeders for the garden, because the original one had become so popular with some of our local birds.

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Today’s picture is of our Christmas tree. Each decoration on the tree represents a memory of who, when or where it was purchased. Today we packed the Christmas tree and decorations away, finished with for another year.

Our tree

In 2018 I wanted to post a picture in my blog for every day for a year. Unfortunately I failed miserably. The Blog ran from 1st August 2018 with Picture No 1 to 25th January 2019 ending with picture No 147. For 2023 I have decided to try once again, really to encourage me to get out and use my camera more and understand more about blogging and websites. Wherever possible I’m going to use a digital camera rather than rely on the camera in my phone.

Me in November 2020