Archive for the 'Photography' Category
Back in the autumn of 1986 I started a degree course in Computer Science at what was then Lanchester Polytechnic in Coventry (now Coventry University). It didn’t go well. I ended up dropping out of the course by the end of the year and I think a lot of the reason for that was the [...]
I’ve not been taking as many photos as I would have liked recently. However, after a little trip out today with my camera I’ve been wondering something which seems at first to be a little irrational.
I’ve been thinking that I actually preferred the photos I used to get out of my Canon 20D over the [...]
Okay, so I now have a working video camera again. It will come as no surprise then to hear that I’ve finally made my first proper upload to YouTube. However, all is not as it seems. I have an all singing, all dancing, spangly new camcorder and my first YouTube upload is a slideshow of [...]
I have recently replaced a totally knackered 10 year old Canon MiniDV camcorder with a Panasonic HDC-SD9. It’s a great little camera and I’m happy at the idea of waving bye-bye to tape. I loath tape. Having to wind through it and always having the possibility of a tape chewing incident. The HDC-SD9 records high [...]
A few weeks ago I saw a photo from one of my contacts on Flickr which intrigued me. The photo in question was taken in the churchyard of St. Luke’s church in Newton Harcourt, Leicestershire – just a few miles from where I live.
Today I managed to dash out there, between the showers of rain [...]
I took Monday and Tuesday of this week off from work to spend some time with my daughter. On Tuesday we took a trip to Leicester’s New Walk Museum which is currently hosting an exhibition about animation. There is a heavy Wallace and Gromit theme in evidence.
After looking at all the various sets and props [...]
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