Stepping out for a few minutes before breakfast can be magical. Camping makes this more likely.
Roger Hyam Posts
To encounter something living that is massively larger than you are on your way to nursery but change you.
I just used the Fukasawa theme on the Botanics Stories blog so I decided to update my own blog to something else – anything really…
What I like about photography is it is so often about what you want to say and not what reality is. Mixing this up with…
Actionable, long-term stable and semantic web compatible identifiers for access to biological collection objects
Coverage of my recent paper in The Sun – I’ve made it! But surely it should be “Its A View To A Chill.”? The film…
How Green Is Edinburgh Really?
Automated sampling of perceived naturalness across Edinburgh
The Cloud Lottery
Biophilomatics: A new field courtesy of IKEA?
I just made my first Instructable: DIY Silent Practise Guitar
For a treat I had lunch in Yo Sushi on Princes Street – and I actually felt the benefit of the air conditioning! Anyone who knows…
I took lay ordination into the Order of Interbeing as True Embracing Oak (Chân Sồi Bao Dung) on 28th August 2015 – a year ago today.…
During my photo drought I have taken to having my X-Pro 1 with the 27mm pancake in my bag. Carrying but not using. At Henry’s book…
I just wrote a blog for work about the Hill & Adamson portrait of William McNab. The first photographic portrait of a professional horticulturist?
I enjoyed this video from Veritasium it complements a blog post I wrote back in 2010 – The present moment does not exist – which does a…
We have just had a week camping in the English Lake District. It didn’t rain the whole time. Very enjoyable in a gentle family kind…
About a year a go I had committed to photograph people on their allotments as my next project when Sutherland Forsyth suggested I document the…
Stuart Beattie, director of Scotland’s Churches Trust, liked the portrait I made of him and asked if I might photograph the visit of Her Royal Highness The…
I’ve been reading Christian literature again. This is an odd experience. Thomas Merton, C.S. Lewis and now Abbot Christopher Jamison have been working to make…
I have had an interesting evening torn between two shots I took today. Same subject and almost the same pose but one with what may…
This is a quick post to host some camera phone snaps for a discussion about the new X-Pro2 and whether it has frame lines for…
It snowed hard enough to drive me back indoors but by 10 o’clock it was all but gone.
Lovely to be joined by Robert on my lunchtime walk today. He’s off to India for five months is a couple of weeks.
Can’t resist a quick comment on this article on BBC News today.Hawking: Humans at risk of lethal ‘own goal’. He says that assuming humanity eventually…
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 Breaths Map…
Today I gave my three minute presentation in the FameLab Scottish Final at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh having got through the Edinburgh…
Way back in the 1980s I worked as a young researcher for Prof David Moore at Reading University on a popular book called Plant Life (OUP 1991) which I believe…