Concerning Quality
A true story. Back in 1999 after a couple of years working with my first employers, I wanted to see more of the job market so quit and shifted to a medium-sized (~350+) multinational company instead, working in the Testing…
Generosity, (Dis)Honesty and Copyright
For the last couple of decades, I have published my photographs under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-nc-nd licence. This licence allows anyone to reuse the photos as long as they credit and link back to me, without making…
Replacing decades-old zsh function. It’s a vibe.
Background One of the key defining features of my more serious photography is that everything I publish is the product of some or other kind of image-blending workflow in the name of image quality. Whether it’s HDR, focus-stacking, pixel-shift or…
Sunrise at Dunnottar
Sometimes you just have to head up the road to catch the sun rising over the horizon at a favoured castle ruin. I have photos for sale of Dunnottar Castle over on shiny.photo.
New Toy: Meet the Wobbleometer(TM)
I’ve had my eye on the Raspberry Shake seismometer for a couple of years now. Last week, I finally succumbed and bought both a new Raspberry Pi (just a 4B 2GB RAM – cheap yet more than adequate) and a…
Evening bike-ride
I spent a happy 25mins yesterday evening biking around the outskirts of town at golden hour.
vdB14 and vdB15, Camelopardalis
vdB14 & vdB15 reflection nebulae, Camelopardalis
It's been ages since I had enough good data to process and publish an astro photo. It sure feels good to have got this one out now :)
Canon vs Fuji: R5 Fail
Last year I swapped camera systems twice - from Fuji to Canon and straight back to Fuji again. Here's why.
Around Comrie
A few years ago I discovered a pleasant gentle walk route around the Water of Ruchill outside Comrie. Almost entirely flat, it follows a loop from the village centre through scrub woodland (ideal shade on a sunny day!) along the…
Sunset, Rhue by Arisaig
I wouldn’t be the only person to favour Scotland’s west coast – its beautiful landscape, impressive geology. After a day exploring outside and around Mallaig, I stopped at Arisaig to catch the sunset and was not disappointed. First, a couple…
Mallaig Circular and Loch an Nostarie
On a whim, I spent my August bank holiday out and about exploring a new location: on the far west coast, Mallaig is home to the ferry port connecting to Skye. Just to the south of the town lies Loch…
Chanonry Point Lighthouse
Last weekend it was ludicrously hot around home – 25ºC after lunchtime – so we drove all the way up north to the Black Isle for a stroll around Fortrose and neighbouring areas. We started with a stroll down to…
Noctilucent Clouds 2021-06-05
Noctilucent (“night-shining”) clouds are the highest in the atmosphere, at around 76-85km altitude. They only appear in the summer months at latitudes from 50-70º (north or south), when the sun is more than 6º below the horizon. Formed in the…
Dunning Glen
One of my favoured local woodlands, just a few minutes’ drive from home, is Dunning Glen. Starting from the village, stroll up the road, round the corner and through the small doorway into the woods where trees and rivers play.…