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Botanic Cottage People

2016/06/222016/06/23Roger Hyam

About a year a go I had committed to photograph people on their allotments as my next project when Sutherland Forsyth suggested I [...]

HRH Princess Royal

2016/04/242016/04/24Roger Hyam Comment

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 [...]

Secular mindfulness needs a rethink

2016/02/132016/02/13Roger Hyam Comment

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 [...]

How shallow can you go

2016/02/082016/02/08Roger Hyam Comment

I have had an interesting evening torn between two shots I took today. Same subject and almost the same pose but one with [...]

XF14mm f2.8 on X-Pro1 & X-Pro2

2016/02/042016/02/17Roger Hyam Comment

This is a quick post to host some camera phone snaps for a discussion about the new X-Pro2 and whether it has frame [...]

It was briefly winter today

2016/01/302016/01/30Roger Hyam

It snowed hard enough to drive me back indoors but by 10 o’clock it was all but gone. [...]

Robert from Poland to India via Scotland

2016/01/292016/01/29Roger Hyam

Lovely to be joined by Robert on my lunchtime walk today. He’s off to India for five months is a couple of weeks. [...]

Hawking: Humans at risk of lethal ‘own goal’?

2016/01/19Roger Hyam

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 [...]

Two out of three of my green spaces under threat

2016/01/172016/01/18Roger Hyam Comment

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 [...]

A future without species: The acme of my FameLab career

2016/01/092016/01/20Roger Hyam 2

Today I gave my three minute presentation in the FameLab Scottish Final at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh having got through [...]

The New Wild : Garden Earth

2016/01/032016/01/03Roger Hyam Comment

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 [...]

Hedonic Treadmill: Are there just Happy People and Sad People?

2015/12/282015/12/28Roger Hyam 1

In searching around for a subject to talk on at FameLab Scotland in January I stumbled across the fact that I had possibly [...]

Solstice? Not Quite Yet

2015/12/212015/12/21Roger Hyam

I thought it was the winter solstice this morning and my feelings were confirmed by ominous sunrise. But I was wrong. It is [...]

FameLab – First Talk

2015/12/152015/12/15Roger Hyam

A few weeks back Edinburgh Beltane Public Engagement Network offered a free day of presentation skills training with Mel Sherwood. When I say free [...]

Thanks for the bridge

2015/12/142015/12/14Roger Hyam

I had a letter published in The National again today. The text I sent was: Sir/Madam, With all the noise and smoke coming [...]

Botanic Cottage: Sutherland

2015/12/14Roger Hyam

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 [...]

Handy Links for Geneva Meeting

2015/10/082015/12/14Roger Hyam

These are just some handy links for me to present at a CETAF Information Science and Technology Committee meeting in Geneva, October 2015. [...]

First Audio Leaflet: Dawyck Scottish Trees Trail » Botanics Stories

2015/09/252015/12/15Roger Hyam

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. [...]