Old photo kit
A couple of odds and sods I rediscovered when I tidied up the studio earlier this month…
The ‘Milly’ as we affectionately called it was an experimental but slightly dysfunctional quarterly ezine that ran from 1995 December 27th through to 1999 December 25. It’s quirky but honest view of the world attracted contributors & readers from all around the planet. The New Millennium was a big project, undertaken on a shoestring budget….
I thought it might be handy to make a small collection of web-based resources for outdoor photography and similar activities. Some of these resources are right here on GarfNet. The rest are dotted around the worldwide web. So I thought it would be helpful to list all these links here, all on a single page,…
Another Christmas with my girlfriends parents in Pecs, Hungary. I always enjoy my Christmases in Pecs. And her folks are such lovely people. These are a few snaps from around the town, just after Chirstmas…
The GNU/Linux family of operating systems (e.g. Debian, Fedora, KDE Neon, Kubuntu, LinuxMint, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Xubuntu et al) are not permitted to use the UNIX trademark. Instead, they are described as “unix-like“. In fact, the “GNU” in GNU/Linux (c/w the “G” in GIMP) is a recursive acronym meaning GNU’s not Unix. In a nutshell,…
I found myself stuck in heavy traffic the M6 on the Gravelly Hill Interchange – AKA Spaghetti Junction. Radio said I could be stuck up there for hours. So I exited the M6 motorway at junction 6 and turned onto the A38(M), what they laughingly call the “Aston Expressway”. That was bumper-to-bumper too. So I…
Cheap and cheerful overhead camera mount for mirrorless camera. I reckon this is actually pretty safe up to about 2kg. Though I normally use a heavy cable tie as an emergency strap.