A pic from Bank Holiday on Hampstead Heath. Normally I don’t like landscapes in black and white. In fact I never like landscapes in black and white, and, yes, that includes all of Ansel Adams’ work [1] (heresy!) but (a) I think this photo looks better that way, (b) I’m still experimenting with this black [...]

After watching Martin Evening’s excellent video on managing black and white photos in Lightroom, I was inspired to take some photos of my own and see what I could do with them in black and white.
The result is some pictures of the local streets on a hottish early evening.

Tags: blackandwhite, photography

Before we went to Malvern last week I bought a tripod. This meant we were lucky enough to get up at 4:45 one morning and climb North Hill to photograph the sun rise. Though it was far from spectacular it made a good morning out. Then we returned home and went back to sleep.
Here are [...]

Some snaps from our works boating-and-Bollywood party last night, on the occasion of us being great people doing fantastic things.

A few more where those came from. Meanwhile, some lessons learned from last night’s photography with a compact camera:

Flash outside makes people in the foreground look like they’re standing against a flat, painted backdrop.
Rapid [...]

Three photos from Kentish Town.

Tags: photography, kentishtown

Honestly, who could have thought this dropdown menu was a good idea? I was browsing for a camera tripod on Jessops’ website, and thought I might like the lightest one available. There was a handy menu to choose my ideal weight, but it was only handy until I clicked on it… then I gave up.

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A valued correspondent points me to two links…
Link 1. Seth Goldstein says a little of what I said yesterday, but at a higher level, and drawing a more significant conclusion: “Closed is the new open”.
Link 2. News of a Facebook application that seeks to subvert Facebook’s own (non-)messaging systems, placing a big button on your [...]

It seems I exist in a very narrow band of people who don’t love Facebook, but yet aren’t actively suing them (or otherwise attacking them or attacking them or attacking them). No, I just have some annoyances.
Annoyance 1. I’m a member of four or five groups on Facebook. Each has its own page, where activity [...]

I love the word bobbins. As in
When exactly was it that schools became completely bobbins at telling whether a child has a broken leg or just a flea bite?
or
The show might have been bobbins, but you’ll never forget the end credits.
It’s a sweet word, and — perhaps also because Google doesn’t yet know its definition [...]