I enjoy taking photographs, but frustratingly I am not always particularly inspired, or don’t get struck by particularly good ideas. That’s perhaps why I’m a technologist, rather than an artist. Also it’s one of the reasons I enjoy candid photography, but that causes me problems as I get very nervous about sticking a camera in [...]
I received an e-mail earlier this week through my flickr account from schmap.com, who seem to be an online travel guide website of some sort. Apparently this photograph from autumn last year has been ’shortlisted’ for inclusion in their next Glasgow guide. I gather the decision is made in early August, and it seems the picture is [...]
The last couple of weeks has somehow been rather busy for all the right reasons, and this site has been somewhat neglected. Probably not going to cause anybody any heart-ache (especially as most of my visitors are hitting the old archive stuff not the latest and, er, greatest). Figured it might be worth a short ‘update’ [...]
I was taking a look at my friend Sharon’s website, and noticed that she’s got an excellent photo gallery integrated, and that it was all (under the hood) run off of flickr - but with local URL’s. Well, I’d been meaning to get something setup on ‘dexter’ my co-lo’d machine, but the enthusiasm hasn’t [...]
It’s very easy to criticise, much harder to compliment. Certainly when we’ve felt somewhat under siege at times with incompetent companies doing work in our house and leaving us high and dry (here), or going to restaurants and leaving nonplussed about the experience (here and here), letting off some steam on this website is a [...]
Went for a nice long walk in Pollok Country Park yesterday, and Frances and I took a few pictures of the autumn as we went around. Some good ones there, but not sure if the autumnal scene that Frances has in mind for a picture in our front room is in it. It reminds me of [...]
An interesting photograph collection: glaswegians.org - A collection of “30,000 photographs taken between 1989 and 1992. The Glaswegians Photo Archive is a record of Glasgow through photographs of its people - their lives, habits, quirks and cultures“. Lots more about it here, and it’s great to see something that happened before the internet took off [...]
We’re currently in Somerset, staying with my parents. It’s been a nice afternoon, so I grabbed my camera and took a few pictures of the pond life that was enjoying the weather in their now very well established pond (Which I helped build many years ago!). My ‘natural scenes’ group has them all. And a challenge [...]
Whilst I’ve rarely actually taken many photographs in museums and galleries, I often notice that UK museums are very hostile to photography. This is presumably because all to frequently people don’t know how to disable the flash, and flash light is very harsh and possibly damaging to exhibits. That or the lawyers fear copyright infringment. [...]
Sunday was my birthday, and I’m afraid to say that - whilst I was greatly cheered up by the efforts of Frances and her family, and an excellent concert - I was rather stressed by the ongoing kitchen woes which reached a head on Monday morning. So this evening, with things starting to at last [...]
