Present moment – it may be just what we think it is.
I enjoyed this video from Veritasium it complements a blog post I wrote back in 2010 – The present moment does not exist – which
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Back from the Lakes
We have just had a week camping in the English Lake District. It didn’t rain the whole time. Very enjoyable in a gentle
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Botanic Cottage People
About a year a go I had committed to photograph people on their allotments as my next project when Sutherland Forsyth suggested I
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HRH Princess Royal
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
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Secular mindfulness needs a rethink
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
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How shallow can you go
I have had an interesting evening torn between two shots I took today. Same subject and almost the same pose but one with
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XF14mm f2.8 on X-Pro1 & X-Pro2
This is a quick post to host some camera phone snaps for a discussion about the new X-Pro2 and whether it has frame
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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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Robert from Poland to India via Scotland
Lovely to be joined by Robert on my lunchtime walk today. He’s off to India for five months is a couple of weeks.
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Hawking: Humans at risk of lethal ‘own goal’?
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
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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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A future without species: The acme of my FameLab career
Today I gave my three minute presentation in the FameLab Scottish Final at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh having got through
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The New Wild : Garden Earth
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
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Hedonic Treadmill: Are there just Happy People and Sad People?
In searching around for a subject to talk on at FameLab Scotland in January I stumbled across the fact that I had possibly
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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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FameLab – First Talk
A few weeks back Edinburgh Beltane Public Engagement Network offered a free day of presentation skills training with Mel Sherwood. When I say free
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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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Botanic Cottage: Sutherland
Over the last year my main project has been photographing the people involved in reconstructing the Botanic Cottage. This is Sutherland who is the organiser
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Handy Links for Geneva Meeting
These are just some handy links for me to present at a CETAF Information Science and Technology Committee meeting in Geneva, October 2015.
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First Audio Leaflet: Dawyck Scottish Trees Trail » Botanics Stories
Just posted this about the apps I’m working on. http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/17370 This is also a test of the new WordPress oembed feature.
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The role of the artists
I came to see that the human imagination is not paramount in the creative process: that what is paramount is “The Creation” and
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Freedom of Choice
We are constrained by the choices we have made but the most constraining choice is choosing not to choose.
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Sister Coa Nghiem
I’m just back from a week at Plum Village. I’d hoped to do some portraiture but didn’t really have time. Retreats are busy
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Buddha – a life of and for peace
I gave a talk to the Uniting for Peace Inter-Faith group meeting at the Theosophical Society in Edinburgh. I made a recording so
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Unsung Hero
Can’t believe I haven’t embedded this before:
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First of the Five Mindfulness Trainings
This is me starting to record the Mindfulness Trainings. I’m doing this so I have it as a resource but also to learn
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You are not what you look like
Mia shared this because it seemed relevant to my photography. I love it.
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Vlasta Jamnicky: June 2015
Vlasta is the interpretation officer at the Botanics so she tries to bring order to leaflets and signs and stuff.
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Paul Nesbitt: June 2015
Paul is curator of Inverleith House gallery at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh a (surely THE) leading contemporary gallery in Scotland.
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Josephine: May 2015
Final day of the Wiston retreat.
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