Tuesday, 27th January, 2026

We hosted a big birthday family ceilidh this weekend and had a lot of fun. I took the X-E4 and 23mm f/1.4 and overwhelmingly all the black and white photos I took (well colour profile I chose) are everyone’s (and my) favourite. The dark, indoor setting made it hard to do colour without huge ISO or slow shutter speed. Whereas for my B&W profile I let the camera go to a much higher ISO and it doesn’t matter. I culled my photos to 53 and my wife picked 21 to share with family, 4 were colour.

Probably it’s just a reflection on me and not knowing / having a suitable colour profile for the darker evening indoors settings. These are all straight out of camera jpgs as I don’t have time to edit them.

I did add all these photos to Apple Photos.app album and that made it very convenient to share. No doubt other software has very easy to share albums too.

Think I have a Lego hoarding habit…it manifests itself via designing/building new trains or associated items but really all that happens is it gets built and stored in boxes in the garage. Where I’m now standing looking at it thinking “I should get some more 9V track”. I the start thinking about how nice it would be to have it all organised into various trays and drawers etc.

I don’t think I’m going to hit 1,000 points in SOTA before our day out. The weather has been dire so it’s hard to do higher point places. Think I’m fine with it though; but also would like it out the way.