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…
Roger Hyam
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…
In searching around for a subject to talk on at FameLab Scotland in January I stumbled across the fact that I had possibly been misusing…
I thought it was the winter solstice this morning and my feelings were confirmed by ominous sunrise. But I was wrong. It is actually at…
A few weeks back Edinburgh Beltane Public Engagement Network offered a free day of presentation skills training with Mel Sherwood. When I say free I mean…
I had a letter published in The National again today. The text I sent was: Sir/Madam, With all the noise and smoke coming from the…
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 of community…
These are just some handy links for me to present at a CETAF Information Science and Technology Committee meeting in Geneva, October 2015. What RBGE…
Just posted this about the apps I’m working on. First Audio Leaflet: Dawyck Scottish Trees Trail This is also a test of the new WordPress…
I came to see that the human imagination is not paramount in the creative process: that what is paramount is “The Creation” and He who…
We are constrained by the choices we have made but the most constraining choice is choosing not to choose.
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 places what…
I gave a talk to the Uniting for Peace Inter-Faith group meeting at the Theosophical Society in Edinburgh. I made a recording so I can…
Can’t believe I haven’t embedded this before:
This is me starting to record the Mindfulness Trainings. I’m doing this so I have it as a resource but also to learn about recording…
Mia shared this because it seemed relevant to my photography. I love it.
Vlasta is the interpretation officer at the Botanics so she tries to bring order to leaflets and signs and stuff.
Paul is curator of Inverleith House gallery at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh a (surely THE) leading contemporary gallery in Scotland.
Final day of the Wiston retreat.
Just having received the 5 Mindfulness Trainings.