Flora the flowerpot cat
Flora the Flowerpot Cat. Next door’s cat decided she liked kipping in a disused 25cm flowerpot on the dividing wall. She was a particularly friendly creature and loved having her photo taken.
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A very near miss
Seems during the wee small hours of this morning, our little blue planet had a very near miss, as we narrowly avoided a collision with a speeding asteroid. At 2023-01-27 00:29 UTC, an asteroid codenamed “2023 BU” came within about 3,589 kilometres of the planet’s surface, around the southerly tip of South America. To put…
Studio flash power usage
How do I calculate the kWH on my studio flash heads? Do I use 300 watts of electricity each time I fire them?
Caterham 7 race day at Castle Coombe
I was invited by Taran Microsystems to attend and photograph one of its Caterham 7 race days at Castle Coombe in Wiltshire.
Geese on film – a 35mm film retrospective
I always had rather a soft spot for geese. There used to be a small gaggle of them on the Cemetery Lake, on the Common, opposite my old place in Southampton. Back in the days of film, they were always excellent models to shoot off the last few frames of a film. And they seemed…
XO (one laptop per child) rolls of production line
With all the misery in the world, I think this project is actually quite heart-warming. The XO laptop (AKA the $100.00 laptop), is the brainchild of Nicholas Negroponte from MIT and former United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan. It is designed for children in the majority world. The first machines started rolling off the Changshu…
New darktable is out today
It’s quite an exciting time in the FOSS graphics world at the moment. After a long, long wait, GIMP 3.0 is finally at RC1 (first release candidate) stage. Debian 13 (Trixie aka Testing) users have just received the long-awaited KDE Plasma 6 desktop – with full Wayland support. Which I have to say that after…
