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In January 2013 I set myself the challenge of posting an average of one feature per day on this blog.  In the past 20 months I have managed to post 639 times but posting one item per day can be time consuming and I will have to scale back my efforts over the coming months due to my work load.   In the next three months I will be traveling to France, Texas, Japan, Portugal, China, Bahrain and Brazil with the FIA WEC and ELMS and I wont have the time to be able to update this blog as regularly as I have been. To maintain regular content I have decided to update this blog a minimum of twice a week until the end of 2014, posting items on Wednesday and Saturday at 17:00 (UK Time), starting today. If I can find the time to add more posts I will.  These updates will continue to be in the form of images that we have taken on our travels and comments / reviews on the camera equipment we have been using to take the images you see in this blog. I hope you will continue t...

I make no apologies for featuring Duart Castle once again on this blog as it is the home of the Clan MacLean.  I made another visit during our recent trip to the Isle of Mull and walked around the landward side of the castle looking for a different angle.  I came up with these two images - Duart Castle stands tall on it's rock guarding the Sound of Mull The top of Duart Castle appears above the trees on the approach road   For more information on Duart Castle visit the website HERE Othe MacLean Photographic Blogs on Duart Castle are HERE and HERE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE NEW GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - thank you for helping -----------------------------------------------------------------...

I do get asked quite a lot why, when my name is Jeff Carter, is my company called MacLean Communications / MacLean Photographic? I have to explain that my full name is Jeffrey Stuart MacLean Carter and the name comes from my Great Grandmother, Jane, whose maiden name was MacLean and she married my Great Grandfather, Samuel Carter, who came from from Gatehouse of Fleet in Dumfries and Galloway.   My Great Grandmother grew up in Greenock which is a little further along the Clyde river from Glasgow.  Her Father ran a coach firm that ran a service from Largs and Inverkip to Greenock and they also did coach tours around the region. This is the a postcard I was given by my Grandfather which shows his Grandfather (my Great, Great Grandfather) Thomas MacLean with his horse and coach.  He is the gentleman wearing the bowler hat.  Apparently my Great, Great Grandmother, Marion (her maiden name was McNeil), is also in the picture sitting behind the horses and I alway...

My Fujifilm X100 Black Limited Edition - no. 506 of 10,000 units available worldwide Fujifilm X100 Black Limited Edition For the past eight weeks I have been busy working in Brazil, Bahrain, Japan and China and this has left little time to update the blog, so many apologies for the break. Just before the last event in Shanghai I decided to invest in a high end compact camera as I didn't want to take my Nikon D700 and associated pro lenses into the country.  China has strict controls over media visas and a J2 visa in your passport means you have to apply for a J2 media visa on all subsequent visits to the country.  As my job for the FIA World Endurance Championship is as the Media Delegate for the series, I qualify for a F (Business) visa and I didn't want my pro camera equipment to cause me any issues on arrival in the country. I had investigate many options for a compact professional camera, including the Nikon V1 system range, but ...