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Category Archives: Pictures
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
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 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 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
A restless caterpillar
Also preparing for a journey; even if his will require utter stillness for three weeks. Continue reading
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