Category: Photography
I spent some time this weekend moving across to Adobe Lightroom from Apple Aperture. I can’t say it has been a pleasant experience but Lightroom…
… but I kind of like this.
At the end of last year I saw an exhibition of photographs at Edinburgh Central library. They were prints from negatives that had been found…
Edinburgh Allotmenteers is my new project for 2015. It builds on my 100 Portraits project that lead to the Botanics People exhibition. The goal of…
On Monday I noticed that the exhibition cabinets in the foyer of the main science building were empty with a note saying the library (who…
Rearranging my bookshelf I came across the folder with my negatives in and it fell open at a film my father took in the late…
I walk past the Basil Spence building almost every day and have been trying to photograph it for my brother who has an interest in…
I think this might work better as a print. It needs examination up close.
I’m doing some clearing out and came across this shot of Faith from a few years ago which triggered more gratitude for eyes and light…
Many of the subjects in my 100 Portraits Project were at my place of work (The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh) so I have continued making…
I grabbed this shot of Jane (who is one of my fellow Interbeing aspirants) at the end of our Wester Caputh retreat last week. This…
I turn 50 years at the end of February (if I haven’t mentioned it enough times). As a gift to my self I’m buying some…
I can’t remember whether I have seen it before or not but I was walking in the woods by the river Tay when I came…
My brother Steve came up to visit in October and we had a nice time together for which I’m really grateful. He’d lost weight and…
Something to be grateful for first thing in the morning.
It is a navel gazing time of year but this year I feel more reflective than usual. I’ll be 50 in less that two months…
I’ve not enjoyed rustling through the frosty leaves for a shot so much in ages. It is so much easier being digital than using Fuji…
With the cloud rolling in across the cold ground the Pentlands were obscured and the golf course became and island.
I just discovered that I can embed Flickr images by just cutting and pasting the URL like this: Unfortunately it looks like it only does…
I have been increasingly dissatisfied with the way Flickr displays my photographs. This is linked with my inability to get on well with social media in general, perhaps with the exception of Twitter. Here is a screen shot of what my Flickr page looked like just before I took the hatchet to it.
Had a lovely couple of hours doing the Pedal On Parliament ride today and took the opportunity to spend the time photographing people. Everyone was…
Andy has worked at the botanics for over 25 years and is actually a lot more cheerful than he appears in this photo – but…
Norman was working with Andy to build the National Organ Donor Memorial in the gardens. He is a drystane dyker by trade but many years…
Finally got around to photographing Reuben. We had just been having a meeting about putting children’s drawings on line and generally sorting out the problems…