A photo walk around the village this afternoon netted quite a range of bees, but worryingly only two hoverflies and three butterflies. Looking back at my photos from this time last year, the area was teeming with bugs of all … Continued
As a child of the Cold War, raised in the rural north of England, I was unprepared when I moved to London in my early twenties (almost a decade before perestroika) to find a Russian shop on Holborn. I was … Continued
As part of my ongoing project of self-improvement – or at least, forcing myself to climb out of my normal groove occasionally – I decided today to abandon my usual “f/8 and be there” approach, in favour of a wide … Continued
Yesterday afternoon my light pad arrived. My excitement about this event ran head-first into my disinclination to take any electronic gizmo out of its packaging if setting it up might possibly prove problematic, and knocked itself out cold – and … Continued
R and I went to Croome this morning, me laden with cameras and lenses. It was an absolutely glorious morning, but by 10.30 it was already getting hot, and promising to be blistering later in the day. We began by … Continued
If you use any kind of Apple device you’re probably aware that the operating systems have recently been updated. Yesterday I downloaded and applied an extensive list of iOS and app updates onto both my iPhone and iPad, and at … Continued
To absolutely no-one’s surprise I was rather tired today, so I mostly lolled about, or strolled around with a camera looking for interesting things to photograph. It wouldn’t be absolutely true to say that I did no gardening, but I … Continued
