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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Click on the thumbnail above for a 1280 by 1024 pixel desktop image with a February 2010 calendar. Its on my desktop computer for what is left of this month. James Watt (with slide rule and plan) on the left, so a tenuous link to Maths.
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Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Ruth gets chocolate from an international sweet shop in Birmingham. This Japanese pack seems to contain mock mushrooms with chocolate caps and biscuit stalks. I love the typography on the back of the package…
Some of the details appear to be telling a story (aimed at children?)
And the teacher figure appears in red on the back [...]
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
Click for a 1280 by 1024 desktop wallpaper image with a January 2010 calendar on it.
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
Can you guess where the postcard photo was taken from? I’ve been printing calendars. Back to work Monday, kicking off with the data handling module.
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Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Polish tea bags and Walker Evans
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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
Image*After and MorgueFile are Web resources where you can find and download high resolution photos for use in PowerPoint presentations or Web pages. MorgueFile’s name comes from the archives kept by newspapers and the Police of old photographs. You can used the ‘advanced’ search page in Flickr and specify only images with a Creative Commons [...]
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Digbeth Is Good is a blog devoted to a part of Birmingham I walk through most days. The chip shop is being done up. I hope they keep the sign.
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
Fujifilm Finepix J12 point and shoot makes nice classroom pictures. Battery has to be removed for charging.
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
It is that time of year again, teaching will be under way in a month or less. This photo makes me think about negotiating the ground rules with new classes of students (I’m a bit more liberal than the ‘manager’). I’ll need to add in some rules about using Moodle/e-mail as well, if only to [...]
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
14% partial eclipse visible from Midlands despite showers and cloud.
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Francois Jakob quote from his autobiography called The Statue Inside about science found on the side of a building on the University of Birmingham campus
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
DigiKam has a nice range of photoediting tools
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Delphinium flower mimics a bee.
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
The multimedia capture device we all carry
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
And, for heaven’s sake,
Cormac McCarthy?
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Folly open for exhibition
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Brass corners on your tables to make them last longer
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Quotes from construction workers
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
First winter holiday for 5 years…
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Munich disaster remembered in Dudley
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Oxford is an hour and a quarter away on the train…
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
Not a bad one as signs go…
Some signs are accidental
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
Curzon Street Station – building without a use at present
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Sycamore leaf caught in chain fence
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
street furniture suffers badly in some areas…
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Chalk drawing of a man in a top hat on a boarded up door in Wolverhampton
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Monochrome photos from the Dales
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Friday, April 6th, 2007
Strong colours and plane of focus
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
Kodak EasyShare C310 for quick snaps
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Friday, November 17th, 2006
Wooden toy found at the Frankfurt Christmas Market that is in Birmingham UK at present.
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Saturday, November 4th, 2006
Out and about with slowish colour film and a macro lens (55mm). I find the very sharp depth of field attractive under some circumstances, but it is tricky to choose the right plane of focus looking at the little ground glass screen with the camera hand held.
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Sunday, October 8th, 2006
The shop signs in the Stratford road show recent changes in ownership, and advertise the new approaches to retail provided by the Internet.
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Saturday, September 30th, 2006
28mm and around town. Just a few views taken with a film camera over the last week. I’m really getting back into the 28mm focal length on 35mm film.
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Friday, September 1st, 2006
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Saturday, August 19th, 2006
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Sunday, August 13th, 2006
Saxon church – some photies
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
A favourate focal length regained.
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Jinpow exhibition with a nice Flash site
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Monday, July 10th, 2006
Photoshop and then copy paste a calendar in
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Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
Ruth wants to visit Chicago again one day, this picture looks like my idea of small town US.
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Saturday, July 1st, 2006
Ruth likes the idea of Canada
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
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Friday, May 5th, 2006
More photos of the street
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
Black rust form mould grows in concentric circles
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Monday, May 1st, 2006
Some snaps on a visit with sunshine
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Thursday, April 27th, 2006
Convection cells in a round bottomed flask
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Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
Some of the better snapshots over the week… mostly Fuji Reala and Jessops processing and scanning
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Saturday, April 15th, 2006
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Friday, March 31st, 2006
Photoshop edge detect works best with strong outlines
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Saturday, March 4th, 2006
Crate in shop window in Warsaw, Poland. Margarine?
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Monday, February 13th, 2006
Red brick from Ruabon changes colour in the rain…
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Monday, January 2nd, 2006
The Robert Frank coloring book is a series of outline drawings by Jno Cook based on Robert Frank’s book The Americans
Jno Cook was trying to make a case about the interpretation of Frank’s book
The rest of Cook’s web site is interesting – he is an artist and fully paid up member of the US Awkward [...]
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Sunday, January 1st, 2006
Cropping from quick photo on the bus
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2005
This ended up in the inbox
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2005
Wet dusk does streetlights, digital camera
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Saturday, December 24th, 2005
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Sunday, December 11th, 2005
Podcast interviews – DIY Studs Terkel?
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Saturday, December 10th, 2005
Stan’s Cafe and others start the hohoho web site dedicated to unusual christmas lights
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Thursday, December 8th, 2005
Mistake leads to interesting image
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Sunday, November 20th, 2005
Multitasking doesn’t work very well
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Saturday, November 5th, 2005
This tomb shows a very scary painted figure and an old style horroscope. The place must have looked totally different when the walls were polychrome murals and lit entirely by candles….
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Sunday, October 30th, 2005
When photographers include the Moon or Sun in a picture, you can find the angle of view and the focal length of the lens by a simple application of trigonometry.
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2005
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Sunday, October 16th, 2005
Coventry covered market has good light and isn’t always full..
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Friday, September 30th, 2005
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Friday, September 30th, 2005
Macro lenses are ace – but there is so much detail around…
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Thursday, September 29th, 2005
Is the hand painted decoration on my Taramundi an accurate logarithmic or equiangular spiral or not?
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
Looking at things through a simple jeweler’s loup can provide a refreshing ‘take’
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Sunday, September 25th, 2005
The word ‘fall’ was used in Elizabethan England to describe autumn – now it has become a US word but still the best one.
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Saturday, September 17th, 2005
Cropping 800/1840 ratio from front left of a frame taken with a 24mm lens gives a ‘normal’ perspective.
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2005
Nice stuff from Magnum nominee
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Sunday, August 21st, 2005
grab shots, guessed exposure
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Monday, August 15th, 2005
List of typical camera explosures for 400 ASA film – handy for when you forget the meter when using a seriously old camera
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Sunday, August 7th, 2005
Bolton Abbey in Warfedale, Yorkshire
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Saturday, July 23rd, 2005
Trees and shadows in local wood. Signs of human activity but no one seen.
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2005
Spray can tags on a steel bridge and a newly painted wall
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Sunday, July 10th, 2005
Stan Brakhage – film maker
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Saturday, July 2nd, 2005
Pictures around Birmingham city ring road
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Monday, June 27th, 2005
Chromagenic monochrome again, but this time with some tweaking. Curves on the door (corresponding to a two bath developer characteristic) and contrast on the roof.
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Saturday, June 18th, 2005
Kodak chromagenic black and white film… has a cyan mask on the negatives so the photolab prints come out close to greyscale with a nice duotone look.
Wall on outhouse in a yard in Wallasey.
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Friday, June 10th, 2005
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2005
Photos from my route to work
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Monday, June 6th, 2005
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Sunday, June 5th, 2005
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Sunday, May 29th, 2005
Nice bank holiday and good luck with the exams!
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Sunday, May 15th, 2005
Olympus digicam on ‘macro’.
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Thursday, May 12th, 2005
Dmitri Baltermans was an ‘official’ Soviet photographer. His war photographs are bleak and direct. Mark Bernstein quotes Lilia Efimova about the media coverage of the war memorial on May 9th in Moscow.
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2005
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Sunday, May 8th, 2005
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
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Monday, April 25th, 2005
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