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Nature notes

It was almost my birthday today, so we ate lunch at the Three Horseshoes in Madingley, which just gets better and better. What I liked best this time was a lemon sorbet which tasted of all the different smells that … Continue reading

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Penis envy

I bumped into my old friend Brian Harris outside the butcher’s, and he had a brand new Nikon D700 with which he had just spent four days shooting behind the scenes at the National Theatre for the Economist’s Intelligent Life … Continue reading

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Deer stalking

Some things are just too strange to be believed. I was walking yesterday in the fields near Strethall Church and saw what seemed like a cloud of smoke above the farm there. It was pigeons, rising from the field to … Continue reading Continue reading

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Colour management on Windows

About fourteen months after I realised there was a problem, I have finally reached a system which allows the faithful reproduction of colours when printing digital photographs on windows. I’m not saying this is the only one. But it works, … Continue reading Continue reading

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A thought on lenses

It is hard sometimes to justify the purchase of lenses to people who are not interested in photography. You can buy a perfectly decent camera for a lot less than I just paid for a 77mm f1.9 Pentax portrait lens. … Continue reading Continue reading

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Hello Monday!

Should I put a flickr widget here instead of the archives? It seems to make sense to me. Continue reading

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Beauty tames the beast

I was talking to a very pretty woman: she sat with her hair the colour of slightly burnt cream against the light; behind her shoulder was the back of a couch striped in black and pale orange. What she had … Continue reading Continue reading

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The Rabbit that ate the moon

Some of you may have wondered “what happened to the moon”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/04/AR2007030400146.html last night. Materialists claim that it was all a result of cosmic mechanics — a clear instance of bias, typical of the BBC. But last night, out on Hadstock … Continue reading Continue reading

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Gift horse looks you in the mouth

I am not posting “these pictures”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/seatrout/sets/72157594254621236/ here. I have rather creeped myself out with them. Who would have thought that a horse’s eye could be so very alien? Perhaps I like them because I was caught in a field with … Continue reading Continue reading

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A restless caterpillar

Also preparing for a journey; even if his will require utter stillness for three weeks. Continue reading

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