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Me and a friend (and a friend) decided to go for a walk … up a snow covered mountain. Taking advantage of the current cold spell in the weather, we thought it might be nice to go for a walk in the Mourne Mountains. The weather couldn’t have been better; clear, crisp air, high cloud [...]
The Highgate visit was only part of the photo walk that took place on Saturday. After first meeting up with two others, the group of four went for a walk through Borough Market, then on to the Financial District of the City of London. From there we met up with the fifth member of the [...]
I spent last weekend in London visiting some friends and taking photographs. One of the places we visited as a group was Highgate Cemetery after it being recommended to me by my friend Paola – she said I’d enjoy it there, she wasn’t wrong.
Here’s a preview of my Iceland book that I’ve just self-published through Blurb.com : Ísland í gegnum linsu (or ‘Iceland through a lens’ for those that don’t speak Icelandic). I’ll be taking orders if anyone would like a copy. There’s a discount of 10% available on orders of 10 or more, but it has to [...]
My good friend Wai Lun Tsang has done a quick video test with his Nikon D3100 testing out his new Glide Track SD. He’s put the resulting video here on YouTube. I thought you all might like to see it. It’s only a short clip but I think it perfectly illustrates the benefits of using [...]
I’m thinking of selling my guitar, so I decided to take some photographs of it.
I’ve never really photographed a guitar like this before. I had fun doing this.
I like science fiction. I’m proud of the knowledge I have regarding TV and film sci-fi (I don’t get a lot of time to read SF). I make no secret of the fact I like sci-fi (it is, after all, what the SF stands for in the title of this site).
Early this morning the Earth passed between the Moon and the sun, causing a full lunar eclipse. Today also marks the winter solstice : the shortest day of the year. This eclipse was the first to fall on the winter solstice since 1638. The next solstice eclipse won’t be until 2094. There was a perfectly [...]
The idea was to get an early morning balloon so that we would already be airborne when the sunrise broke the horizon, but this wasn’t to be, instead the sun had been up for about 30 minutes by the time we arrived at the take-off site.