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One thousand pieces… Eighty seconds… Tower Bridge pieces itself into view before your very eyes. Of course, this reveals the method I used to make the puzzle but really - who makes the sky first?!? »
New gallery: The capital city of the Czech Republic, Prague, is great if you can get a little bit away from the main squares, bars, clubs and related stag and hen parties. Thankfully our birthday dinner river cruise took us out for Saturday night and it was well worth it. If you go, get out there and have a walk around - the Gothic architecture is great by day or by night … »
Last weekend I had the pleasure of a day picking up landscape photographic tips from the esteemed photographers Paul Hill and Karen Frenkel. There were quite a lot of us; I don’t know how they managed it but the advice they gave was great. As you’d expect, I’ve put up a mini gallery from the day. First though, a brief story on improving a picture with a little thought. »
Macro photography is fascinating, in most cases what’s actually visible is just made clearer and there is beauty in the enlargements of the small. Perhaps it’s because I spent a lot of years studying semiconductor materials invisible to the human eye with lasers of a wavelength outside the visible spectrum that I’m so enthused by the world beyond the resolution of our eyes. »
A delicate balance of neglect and preservation; Calke Abbey is a National Trust country house estate near Derby. The café’s great and the buildings and gardens are picturesque from all angles, especially on a sunny day! I’m especially fond of the photo of the backlit church… »
After the best part of 18 months writing my Ph.D. thesis, we had a long weekend in Iceland. Good timing too, for the banking system collapsed shortly after we returned home and it was great to go. »
PlanetFear ran coaching holidays for climbers on the idyllic Greek island of Kalymnos and with great pleasure Becky and I went to the last one ever! PlanetFear Kalymnos SunRock holiday. As you’ll see from the photos on this site, we had an awesome time… »
Animation is the reverse process of making a live-action film. For a live-action film, movement is ‘frozen’ into a series of separate still frames but for animation each frame is created to produce the film. »
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