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Posts from October 2007

London Eye

The legacy of Britain’s millennium projects has not been universally glorious, but one enduring star project is the BA London Eye. It’s basically a gigantic ferris wheel with capsules the size of garages in place of the usual chair baskets. About 25 people ride in each carriage.

Canon EOS 30D, Canon EF-S 10-22mm @ [...]


April Does London

My trip to London with April went really well. It wasn’t exactly a photographic expedition, since I didn’t have Carolyn as a second pair of eyes to check that April wasn’t playing in traffic (not that London traffic moves very fast).

April Playing in St. James Park
Canon EOS 30D, Canon EF-S 10-22mm @ 22
1/30 @ f/4.5, [...]


In The Interests Of….

I’m just back from London which, for the first time, felt like a city slightly paranoid, unhappy and joyless. Everything, it seems, has been prohibited, regulated or become subject to fines for violation. In particular, the Health and Safety legislation seems to be the shibboleth of the killjoys who once universally worked as park [...]


Abandoned Places

I have a particular and, to my friends, odd love of the abandoned, the decaying and the broken. It’s abundant subject matter when you live in Scotland.

Canon EOS 30D, Canon EF-S 10-22mm @ 22
1/30th @ f/4, ISO 200


Intimidating Ontologies

I was talking to my photo buddy Eric Wyllie the other night. We were chatting over some of the things I had written in my Aperture/Lightroom comparison and were comparing our practices in Aperture, which we both use.
Eric’s heavily into keywording, but I’m just…not. I’ve never really known why I couldn’t get into it, but [...]


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