Tag : Mark Casey
I recently went on a photo trip with two friends to Lower Lough Erne in County Fermanagh. Whilst there I decided I’d take some landscape photos with the express intention of making them black and white. I don’t know why I’d never considered doing B&W landscapes before, but I do like the results I got [...]
I’ll try and keep words to a minimum here. Some things get me out of bed (work) and some things I get out of bed for (photography).
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 [...]
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.
Taking a Felucca down the Nile is something you must do when visiting Egypt. Feluccas are sail boats that have been used on the Nile since antiquity.