Using WiFi with the E-M1 is straightforward and potentially useful. You will need a smartphone with the Olympus Image Sharing application downloaded, which looks like this:

Remote control is used for controlling your phone via WiFi. Import photos transfers images from your camera to your phone and Edit Photo allows you edit those photos on the phone. Finally, the Add Geotag option will geotag all the images currently on your camera. This is potentially very useful, provided all the shots on your camera are from the same location and you remember to geotag them before you jump in your car and drive home.

Regular readers will both have noticed that I have been upgrading my camera gear on a regular basis. It’s a sickness.

My wife however, whilst welcome to use my selection of lenses whenever I am not using them, apart from the really good ones, has not had a new camera body since she acquired an Olympus EP1 some four years ago. She seems happy enough to use my cast-offs; but I have been looking out for something that will give her a better experience and better photos; and will also be cute enough for her to want to use it.

Enter this:

It is around this time of year that I publish a festively themed photo featuring our two pussies. This year, it ain’t going to happen.

Sadly, one of them has developed severe asthma and after several courses of pills from one vet we took her to another vet who kept her for a week for tests and treatment. We picked her up this morning and she is in a terrible state; worst of which is that she has stopped eating, and cats can’t stop eating for more than a day or so without liver failure; so her future is not too bright.

Today we celebrate the birthday of one of someone very special (Sir Isaac Newton), and to mark the occasion I made my annual pilgrimage to the lights festooned around Royal Garden Mall.

Only in Pattaya would you see what appears to be the festive rendition of a gimp suit:

… I needed coffee and a lie down; but instead went in search of some small things to photograph:

My beloved had to get her arse out of bed at 0450 this morning to attend a function with her company involving a million monks, or a thousand, or some number in between. I intended ignoring her exit, but failed; so instead decided to head out to my favourite lake to catch the sunrise. It was worth it, although now I need to return to bed.

Stick the old theme back up; pending the arrival of the exciting* new look at the end of the year.

*dull

Comments 🔗

2013-12-21 | BlogDaz says

Good idea, wasn’t too fond of the new look.

2013-12-21 | Spike says

Me too. It was the latest theme from Wordpress and I thought it would serve as a basis for an upgrade. After a few hours I realised that it was crap; but was not confident in reverting (thought I had changed too much stuff). Now I am trying out a theme I actually paid money for; certainly has more options but no doubt I will make it look like a dog’s breakfast once I am done with it.

A Scotsman goes into a baker’s shop and says “Is that a doughnut or a meringue?”

The baker says “no, you are quite right, it’s a doughnut”.

Geddit?

Never mind, this is not a doughnut:

It’s hardly surprising, but I can count the number of times one of my photos has been published on the fingers of one hand, and still have a finger free to stick up at all the arseholes that have stolen my shots.

I made several of the Indian national papers when I covered a round of the Indian National Rally, had some sailing photos published in Asia Pacific Boating and a few Polo shots dropped into polo magazines. Finally it was back to India where the India Times kindly decided to use one of my photos without asking me.