Darren Rowse

The Persistent Widow: Darren Rowse — One Church On Sunday, Darren Rowse continued our Teach us to Pray series with a message based on Luke 18:1-8 - the Parable of the persistent widow and the unjust judge. Below you’ll find a video and audio recor...

I had the opportunity to share a message about prayer, faith and persistence in the face of injustice yesterday at church.

The recording is now up for anyone interested in catching it.

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Easter Sunday: Darren Rowse — One Church Easter Sunday at One Church Blackburn was full of celebration—songs, stories, and baptisms that painted a beautiful picture of resurrection. Below you’ll find Darren’s Easter Sunday message as an audi...

This year I tried something a little different for my Easter Sunday message - hope you enjoy it

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it's been a while since I've seen this one in a bookstore!

I’d love to see the billionaire’s WhatsApp group just before he sent this out.

I used to look at the US as a country that was all about stability, leadership, inclusivity, generosity.

It’s been a while since I felt that way.

This past few weeks it has been quite the opposite. Sad to see.

Well hello there #PentaxMX

Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 50mm f/1.4 Lens Review Me and My Takumar: A Tale of Two 1972 Originals

This lens was born in the same year I was and it is still going strong.

Here's my review

From today’s photo walk shot with the Chinon 55mm f1.7

— but instead is only about coming to faith in the present and going to heaven in the future, then we must reply that something has gone very, very wrong in their thinking.”

N.T. Wright

"And if anyone tries to say that the good news is not about all these things—about freeing slaves, about helping the poor, about reconciling warring factions, ethnic groupings, and whole nations, about looking after the blessed world we live on and in..."

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Yep - they could do with some post-production - I just posted those darker ones to show the lovely flare shooting into the sun gets.

Took out the Schneider Kreuznach Edixa-Tele-Xenar 135mm f3.5 (which I picked up at a camera market on Sunday) tonight for a first whirl - first impressions are good!

Camera nerd heaven at the Melbourne Camera show.

Mastering Manual Focus Lenses Tips for Sharper Shots with Vintage Lenses

There's a whole generation of photographers who have never focused a camera manually. This lost art is one of the biggest challenges for those trying vintage lenses - so I wrote a post with tips on how to do it.

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When the opportunity for bird photography presents closer to home than you expect and all you have on your camera is a 50mm lens!

Thank goodness for a high-megapixel sensor that lets you crop and still get some details.

When you track a parcel (new lens) from Tasmania… 😊

to your state and then to your suburb… 😃

only to see it do a 180 turn and return to Tasmania due to incorrect addressing! 🤦‍♂️

Good to know!

Substack growth - slowly but surely.

Interestingly enough, today I noticed I've started to get a trickle of Google traffic. substack

Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar MC 50mm F1.8 Review Does this ugly duckling lens still deliver stunning results.

When I first saw this lens… my heart sank.

When I saw the images it took… my heart soared!

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Current View

We chase the sharp,
the lines that tell us where we stand.
But light does not rush to be defined.
It lingers in the blur,
content to simply exist.

Look too hard, and you will miss it.
Let go, and it will find you

Not all things ask to be seen.
Some drift at the edges,
soft, shapeless,
unconcerned with clarity.

Golden echoes hum in the green,
whispering between
what is and what is not.
They do not beg for form,
yet they remain.

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My wife on our walk today:

“You have photographed that tree three Saturdays in a row!”

Yes I have. But with three lenses!

Will it swirl? Yes it will… sometimes… a bit…

Carl Zeiss Pancolar Jena MC DDR 50mm f1.8

Photowalk this morning with the Carl Zeiss Pancolar Jena MC DDR 50mm f1.8 - full review will be ready next week.

An Introduction to Adapting Vintage Lenses to Modern Digital Cameras How to choose the right adapter for your lens and camera combination

The most common question I get from photographers about using vintage lenses on their digital cameras is simply 'how do I do it?'

Here's my introduction to adapting these amazing lenses to your camera

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YouTube video by Photography as Meditation What Should I Photograph - Creative Ideas for Photography

Great new episode from @chrisbrogan.bsky.social

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Authentic phoshi

I’m not sure where it says in the Bible that someone is saved by God to make a country great.

It does say that there will be ‘fruit’ of arelationship with God though - the fruit being:

“love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.”