adetorrent; photography, lifestyle.

Opposite the 02 arena in London, on the runway to North Greenwich station, you can find this thing. It is one of the many street lights that line the paths. Unremarkable in and of itself until, on closer inspection, one realises that it does not only shine light, but is also a reflection of the entire world around it. A mini Earth, complete with its own little Millennium Dome. Funny; this was the paradigm I had in my head as a kid of what the world was like - flat, but within a kind of globe bubble. It was the only way I could reconcile what my eyes were telling me - a flat earth surface, and the globe in my dad's study that claimed to be " Earth ".

I spent the later part of Easter in the south-eastern end of the island. My time there was equally divided between forest and seaside. It was like being on different continents. The drastic change in scenery was one thing, the unpredictable early Spring English weather was another. Caught suddenly in the woods by torrential hail, five miles from the hotel, no shelter in sight, I fervently hoped by camera bag was waterproof. It was, thank God. On arrival to the hotel, drenched from head to toe in fresh water, the sky turned a sapphire kind of blue. The sun shone sarcastically down as if to deny having anything to do with it. So short-lived was it, however, that by the time I located my key in one of my seven pockets, the clouds were beginning to gather in the sky, preparing to produce precipitation of whatever kind.

I spent some time in Greenwich, London this past week. I flew over the docklands and gazed upon it from above, aboard a cable car. It's s brief but incredible view of that part of London and beyond. The Thames river is a captivating creature - a serpent crawling haughtily through this ancient town.

What does it really take to move from being sub-par, or even mediocre, to being truly great? This is the question that has been weighing on my mind recently. Take this blog for example. I have been doing it for a while. I have been truly passionate about it. I have had both the intellectual and financial capital that is required to run a blog. While I have had some really awesome engagement from some of you [ for which I’m infinitely grateful - I can’t believe how loyally some of you read this blog ], one can say the traffic has been mediocre at best - maybe even sub-par. Then you have someone give it a go for a few months to a year with (in my humble opinion) average quality content, and their traffic explodes, catapulting them to immeasurable success.   Likewise in real life, some people truly give their endeavour everything they have, only for said endeavour to float endlessly in the sea of mundane averageness. What separates someone who wakes up every mo...

The time has come to take a little time off posting on this blog. The reason is a simple one - I've once again fallen off the focus wagon and am doing too any things at the same time. At present, apart from this blog, I have the following; 4 other blogs I update regularly 5 YouTube channels I post to 2 Instagram accounts An eBay business An Amazon FBA business Even more other things.. As it happens, there's only one of me, and I'm starting to spread out too thin like I did a couple of years ago. I have hence decided to cut down drastically and put more energy behind fewer things. I'm not saying goodbye, oh no, I love this blog.  I'm just going away for a while. I very much hope you will be there when I return sometime in the future. Ciao, Adé

This year has come to an end. Before I go on, let me just take this opportunity to express my gratitude to whatever the mechanism is in existence that is responsible for the preservation of life. For indeed, I am incredibly grateful to be alive today. 2015 has not been a good year for so many, and, some people that were close to me have ceased to exist, but, I am pleased to be here. Reflecting on 2015 - what did I learn this year? Family is everything.  'Family' includes those very true friends too. Money is nothing. Well, I knew this before, but I was particularly reminded of it this year. Money is everything. In direct contradiction to the second point above, yes, but true. Long story. Life is short.  In light of the above, here are some of the tweaks I aim to make in 2016; Grow closer to family than ever before. Make more money than ever before. Care less about money than ever before. Take more photos of myself. Be more consistent with everything I ...

I recently met up with a friend to go shooting. It'd been a while since I'd gone shooting with someone. Can I say, it was tons of fun. Sure, I didn't get into the 'zone' as I usually would, but it was its own kind of fun. London already has its fair share of red things - phone boxes, buses, royal mail stuff, but being christmas, it's looking plenty red in London right now. I spotted countless red christmas 'ugly' sweaters, shoes and of course, hats. Santa hats, obviously, but my favourite for the day was this awesome red fedora this lady had on. The Helios-44-2 was really in its elements with the winter lighting conditions. I basically shot at f/2 the whole time. One thing's certain when you shoot f/2 on the helios - epic bokeh!