Heathrow Airport
Just a few idle snaps as we wandered around Heathrow as we waited for our plane to Hong Kong.
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Merry Christmas 2021
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Brexiteers’ irrational aversion to the Metric System
Puzzles me why Brexiteers still conflate use of International System of Units (SI) with the EU? Or why these people still think that the metric system is some how “not British” and kid themselves that they are being “patriotic” by refusing to use it? British Engineers and scientists have been pleading with various British governments…
Merry Christmas 2014
The Goose that Never Voted for Christmas Lovingly drawn by Zsuzsanna Dora Majlati Well, it’s been a funny old year. Lots of hard work going on behind the scenes, but not a great deal to show publicly for all the effort. The new Joomla site is still in progress – struggling to use our existing…
Checking out my new lens tilt mechanism
I treated myself to a lens tilt mechanism and a vintage Helios 4m-44 58mm f/2 lens. So I figured I needed to go out and test them. These were taken from Portsdown Hill, facing south, over Portchester and Cosham. Being able to tilt the lens means one can shift the focus onto a particular part…
Birmingham 1996 – a 35mm film retrospective
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Perplexity
Whilst I am deeply sceptical about artificial “intelligence”, I’m also having quite a lot of fun with it too. Over the last eighteen months, I’ve gone from generating header images for blog articles, ugly images of unpleasant politicians and surreal greetings cards, to creating entire virtual shoots. Today, it also serves as a serious learning…
