Camerabase

Camerabase is an old fashioned camera shop just around the corner from me with Cameratiks repair department out the back. Both are endangered species these days.
Read More CamerabaseCamerabase is an old fashioned camera shop just around the corner from me with Cameratiks repair department out the back. Both are endangered species these days.
Read More CamerabaseI’m having fun with a couple of mics making some binaural recordings. Here is the first one that is even worth sharing. You need to wear headphones to get the effect. Close your eyes and you are almost there.
Read More First Binaural recording attempt – Christmas MarketSeptember has been a busy busy month with many distractions around running the Project Soothe Exhibition. Rewarding but tiring. As I reached the end of the month the walking is getting to my physically an I miss a few days by jumping on the bus to get home. Marathon Monk Posts by Date…
Read More Marathon Monk: September 2017 – 47 days & 282 mindful milesIt was 20 years ago today, not that Sgt Pepper taught the band to play but that I submitted my PhD thesis. Of course that is not what they are talking about in the papers. They are all talking about J.K. Rowling and a mildly successful tome Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone that just happened…
Read More Harry Potter and the Hairy RhodiesIt snowed hard enough to drive me back indoors but by 10 o’clock it was all but gone.
Read More It was briefly winter todaySunday evening and I’m taking the snaps off my camera. It has been dark and I’ve been hold up writing software for my Ten Breaths Map project so there are only three shots I like but by chance there is a strong connection between the photos and the project I dedicated my Saturday to. All three…
Read More Two out of three of my green spaces under threatI thought it was the winter solstice this morning and my feelings were confirmed by ominous sunrise. But I was wrong. It is actually at 4:49am tomorrow morning. It moves around between 20th and 23th apparently.
Read More Solstice? Not Quite YetI had a letter published in The National again today. The text I sent was: Sir/Madam, With all the noise and smoke coming from the “blamethrowers” that have been deployed since the Fourth Road Bridge closed I haven’t heard a single word of gratitude spoken and so I’d like to put the record straight. We…
Read More Thanks for the bridge… but I kind of like this.
Read More First rule of design is not to centre anythingAt the end of last year I saw an exhibition of photographs at Edinburgh Central library. They were prints from negatives that had been found in a biscuit tin by historian Archie Foley and put on display with the help of photographer Peter Ross. The photographs had been taken in the 1950s and 1960s by…
Read More Railway PeopleEdinburgh Allotmenteers is my new project for 2015. It builds on my 100 Portraits project that lead to the Botanics People exhibition. The goal of the project is to produce a folio of around a dozen A3 prints and possibly a small exhibition. To get to this point I will aim to interact with and…
Read More Edinburgh Allotmenteers 2015I walk past the Basil Spence building almost every day and have been trying to photograph it for my brother who has an interest in Spence’s building. It is actually really hard to get good lighting and view of this building. This is at dawn (about 8:30 am at this time of year) and some…
Read More Basil Spence: University of Edinburgh LibraryWith the cloud rolling in across the cold ground the Pentlands were obscured and the golf course became and island.
Read More Morton Hall Golf Club Boxing Day 2014Had a lovely couple of hours doing the Pedal On Parliament ride today and took the opportunity to spend the time photographing people. Everyone was in a good mood and, although there were a few people who didn’t want their photos taken, most were up for it. I had a couple of out of focus…
Read More People @ Pedal On Parliament 2014Fading between these two shots is a much better approach than trying to merge them like I did in an earlier post.
Read More Princes Street Ghost TramThis is harder than I thought! On my third visit to this site and this is the best alignment I have. It is on my way to work so I will try again though it isn’t as much fun to do when there are no people in the old photo.
Read More Castle VennelI’ve been having fun this weekend with a postcard that was posted in 1925. I think the image on the card was taken quite a bit earlier maybe even at the end of the 19th century. The scene is of Old Bakehouse Close, Edinburgh, off the Royal Mile. The area has been much renovated…
Read More Old Bakehouse GhostsThis is a lovely postcard combined with a quick snap. I’ll have to go back when the Christmas lights are down and it maybe isn’t so crowded. I also need to find historic images in which people figure more prominently. It is people who are interesting after all!
Read More First attempt at rephotographing St GilesI have not blogged for a while. I’m not sure if the urge has left me or if I just haven’t found time. There seem to be too many words in the world so I’d like to move to doing more visual stuff and this tends to be sucked into my Flickr stream rather than…
Read More Rephotography – Making a StartIf more people cycled then the city would flow more freely, people would be fitter and life would be better. Generally you would think that it would be in the council’s interest to favour anything that promoted cycling that didn’t cost anything or get in anyone else’s way. But then you would be hopelessly naive…
Read More More Cycling StupidityYesterday we all got on our bikes to Pedal on Parliament and protest at the disproportionate cuts to the active travel budgets. Basically everyone admits that Scotland would be a better place if we built our roads so that it was safer to cycle but it is very difficult to get it prioritised over creating…
Read More Why I don’t buy Scottish NewspapersI spent several evenings last week trying to make an interval timer for shooting time lapse movies out of a Lego Mindstorms robotics kit. This involved several trips to Maplin and some soldering as well as learning to program in the weird drag and drop enviroment. I’d nearly finished when I came across a cheap…
Read More Time Lapse – First AttemptI have been messing around trying to make my blog more photo-friendly – but without much joy. I use Apple Aperture which is integrated with MobileMe and Flickr. I have a MobileMe gallery so I could include images from there but Apple don’t provide an API just a rather inadequate RSS feed. I could use…
Read More Trying to get a photo blog right