Harry Potter and the Hairy Rhodies
It was 20 years ago today, not that Sgt Pepper taught the band to play but that I submitted my PhD thesis. Of
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Edinburgh
It was briefly winter today
It snowed hard enough to drive me back indoors but by 10 o’clock it was all but gone.
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Two out of three of my green spaces under threat
Sunday 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
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Solstice? Not Quite Yet
I thought it was the winter solstice this morning and my feelings were confirmed by ominous sunrise. But I was wrong. It is
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Thanks for the bridge
I had a letter published in The National again today. The text I sent was: Sir/Madam, With all the noise and smoke coming
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First rule of design is not to centre anything
… but I kind of like this.
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Railway People
At the end of last year I saw an exhibition of photographs at Edinburgh Central library. They were prints from negatives that had
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Edinburgh Allotmenteers 2015
Edinburgh Allotmenteers is my new project for 2015. It builds on my 100 Portraits project that lead to the Botanics People exhibition. The
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Basil Spence: University of Edinburgh Library
I walk past the Basil Spence building almost every day and have been trying to photograph it for my brother who has an
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Morton Hall Golf Club Boxing Day 2014
With the cloud rolling in across the cold ground the Pentlands were obscured and the golf course became and island.
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People @ Pedal On Parliament 2014
Had a lovely couple of hours doing the Pedal On Parliament ride today and took the opportunity to spend the time photographing people.
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Princes Street Ghost Tram
Fading between these two shots is a much better approach than trying to merge them like I did in an earlier post.
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Castle Vennel
This is harder than I thought! On my third visit to this site and this is the best alignment I have. It
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Old Bakehouse Ghosts
I’ve been having fun this weekend with a postcard that was posted in 1925. I think the image on the card was
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First attempt at rephotographing St Giles
This is a lovely postcard combined with a quick snap. I’ll have to go back when the Christmas lights are down and it
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Rephotography – Making a Start
I have not blogged for a while. I’m not sure if the urge has left me or if I just haven’t found time.
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More Cycling Stupidity
If more people cycled then the city would flow more freely, people would be fitter and life would be better. Generally you would
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Why I don’t buy Scottish Newspapers
Yesterday we all got on our bikes to Pedal on Parliament and protest at the disproportionate cuts to the active travel budgets. Basically
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Time Lapse – First Attempt
I spent several evenings last week trying to make an interval timer for shooting time lapse movies out of a Lego Mindstorms robotics
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Trying to get a photo blog right
I have been messing around trying to make my blog more photo-friendly – but without much joy. I use Apple Aperture which is
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Edinburgh Snow
I think I need to look for some photo blogging software. This gallery isn’t that inspiring.
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My First ‘Serious’ Edinburgh Gigapan
View this full screen! This is my first reasonably high resolution Gigapan. It is around 760 megapixel. It was a dark day on
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Royal Museum of Scotland – as it was in April ’08
Back in April when I knew the RMS was going to close for three years for renovation I decided to do some panoramas
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