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Camerabase

Roger Hyam, 2020/11/212020/11/21

Camerabase is an old fashioned camera shop just around the corner from me with Cameratiks repair department out the back. Both are endangered species these days.

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First Binaural recording attempt – Christmas Market

Roger Hyam, 2017/12/062017/12/06

I’m having fun with a couple of mics making some binaural recordings. Here is the first one that is even worth sharing. You need to wear headphones to get the effect. Close your eyes and you are almost there.

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Marathon Monk: September 2017 – 47 days & 282 mindful miles

Roger Hyam, 2017/10/062017/10/06

  September has been a busy busy month with many distractions around running the Project Soothe Exhibition. Rewarding but tiring. As I reached the end of the month the walking is getting to my physically an I miss a few days by jumping on the bus to get home.  …

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Harry Potter and the Hairy Rhodies

Roger Hyam, 2017/06/302017/06/30

It was 20 years ago today, not that Sgt Pepper taught the band to play but that I submitted my PhD thesis. Of course that is not what they are talking about in the papers. They are all talking about J.K. Rowling and a mildly successful tome Harry Potter and…

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It was briefly winter today

Roger Hyam, 2016/01/302016/01/30

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

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Two out of three of my green spaces under threat

Roger Hyam, 2016/01/172016/01/18

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 project so there are only three shots I like but by chance there is a strong connection between the photos and the project I dedicated…

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Solstice? Not Quite Yet

Roger Hyam, 2015/12/212015/12/21

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 4:49am tomorrow morning.  It moves around between 20th and 23th apparently.

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Thanks for the bridge

Roger Hyam, 2015/12/142015/12/14

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 “blamethrowers” that have been deployed since the Fourth Road Bridge closed I haven’t heard a single word of gratitude spoken and so I’d like to…

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History in the making?

Roger Hyam, 2015/05/062015/12/14
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Grave Yard Tree

Roger Hyam, 2015/03/302015/12/14
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March Morning

Roger Hyam, 2015/03/212015/12/14
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First rule of design is not to centre anything

Roger Hyam, 2015/02/182015/12/14

… but I kind of like this.

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Railway People

Roger Hyam, 2015/02/11

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 in a biscuit tin by historian Archie Foley and put on display with the help of photographer Peter Ross. The photographs had been taken in…

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Edinburgh Allotmenteers 2015

Roger Hyam, 2015/02/012015/12/14

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 the project is to produce a folio of around a dozen A3 prints and possibly a small exhibition. To get to this point I will…

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Basil Spence: University of Edinburgh Library

Roger Hyam, 2015/01/15

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 Spence’s building. It is actually really hard to get good lighting and view of this building. This is at dawn (about 8:30 am at this…

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Morton Hall Golf Club Boxing Day 2014

Roger Hyam, 2014/12/292015/01/02

With the cloud rolling in across the cold ground the Pentlands were obscured and the golf course became and island.

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People @ Pedal On Parliament 2014

Roger Hyam, 2014/04/262015/12/14

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 in a good mood and, although there were a few people who didn’t want their photos taken, most were up for it. I had a…

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Princes Street Ghost Tram

Roger Hyam, 2014/01/262014/01/26

[php] wp_enqueue_script(‘ghost_fader’, ‘https://www.hyam.net/blog/wp-content/ghost_fader.js’); [/php]   Fading between these two shots is a much better approach than trying to merge them like I did in an earlier post.

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Castle Vennel

Roger Hyam, 2014/01/262014/01/26

[php] wp_enqueue_script(‘ghost_fader’, ‘https://www.hyam.net/blog/wp-content/ghost_fader.js’); [/php]   This is harder than I thought! On my third visit to this site and this is the best alignment I have. It is on my way to work so I will try again though it isn’t as much fun to do when there are no…

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Old Bakehouse Ghosts

Roger Hyam, 2014/01/19

[php] wp_enqueue_script(‘ghost_fader’, ‘https://www.hyam.net/blog/wp-content/ghost_fader.js’); [/php]   I’ve been having fun this weekend with a postcard that was posted in 1925. I think the image on the card was taken quite a bit earlier maybe even at the end of the 19th century. The scene is of Old Bakehouse Close, Edinburgh, off…

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First attempt at rephotographing St Giles

Roger Hyam, 2014/01/082015/12/15

This is a lovely postcard combined with a quick snap. I’ll have to go back when the Christmas lights are down and it maybe isn’t so crowded. I also need to find historic images in which people figure more prominently. It is people who are interesting after all!

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Rephotography – Making a Start

Roger Hyam, 2014/01/062014/01/26

I have not blogged for a while. I’m not sure if the urge has left me or if I just haven’t found time. There seem to be too many words in the world so I’d like to move to doing more visual stuff and this tends to be sucked into…

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More Cycling Stupidity

Roger Hyam, 2012/04/302012/04/30

If more people cycled then the city would flow more freely, people would be fitter and life would be better. Generally you would think that it would be in the council’s interest to favour anything that promoted cycling that didn’t cost anything or get in anyone else’s  way. But then…

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Why I don’t buy Scottish Newspapers

Roger Hyam, 2012/04/292012/04/29

Yesterday we all got on our bikes to Pedal on Parliament and protest at the disproportionate cuts to the active travel budgets. Basically everyone admits that Scotland would be a better place if we built our roads so that it was safer to cycle but it is very difficult to…

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Time Lapse – First Attempt

Roger Hyam, 2011/11/302011/11/30

I spent several evenings last week trying to make an interval timer for shooting time lapse movies out of a Lego Mindstorms robotics kit. This involved several trips to Maplin and some soldering as well as learning to program in the weird drag and drop enviroment. I’d nearly finished when…

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Royal Botanic Gardens – November 2010

Roger Hyam, 2010/12/222010/12/18
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Sledging on the Meadows – November 2010

Roger Hyam, 2010/12/202010/12/18
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Snow Clouds Over Arthur’s Seat November 2010

Roger Hyam, 2010/12/192010/12/19
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Barclay Church from the Meadows – November 2010

Roger Hyam, 2010/12/182010/12/18
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Trying to get a photo blog right

Roger Hyam, 2010/12/172010/12/18

I have been messing around trying to make my blog more photo-friendly – but without much joy. I use Apple Aperture which is integrated with MobileMe and Flickr. I have a MobileMe gallery so I could include images from there but Apple don’t provide an API just a rather inadequate…

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