All articles from July, 2008
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Wedding trip part 2: Reims to the Channel Tunnel
Thursday, 31st July 2008 • Travel • No comments
After a good night’s sleep in Reims, we headed onward towards our appointment with the cross-Channel tunnel at a rate of knots, passing through the first toll booth of the [...]
TFI Thursday
Thursday, 31st July 2008 • Life, Work • 3 comments
So this is what it feels like to be on a last day at work. Not much different from any day over the past few weeks, as I began winding [...]
Storm Approaching
Wednesday, 30th July 2008 • Photography • No comments
This is a rapidly conceived and executed shot, as a big storm headed in from the Simmen valley from western Switzerland. I saw the distant clouds being illuminated by lightning [...]
“Good” photography
Monday, 28th July 2008 • Photography • 3 comments
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I had an interesting chat with a friend of Nick’s on Saturday evening, which brewed into quite a heated discussion about the perennial photographic question [...]
Ilona in Wollishofen
Monday, 28th July 2008 • Friends and Family, Photography • No comments
A friend who will be moving away in the not-too-distant future. I wanted to take a “proper” portrait before she leaves and shot this portrait in a graffiti-ed children’s playground [...]
Inexpensive still-life photography
Friday, 25th July 2008 • Photography • 1 comment
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This Lladró statue, designed by Francisco Catalá, was a gift from my parents and fits well with my photographic tendencies. It is also a [...]
Learning a lot, a little at a time
Thursday, 24th July 2008 • Photography • No comments
This is a short (ten minute) outtake from David Hobby’s workshop DVD set, which is on sale for US$139. The price seems steep for “just” a DVD, but reconsider: what [...]
Wedding trip, day one – Switzerland to Reims
Thursday, 24th July 2008 • Travel • No comments
I love travelling back and forth between Britain and Switzerland. Although it’s a long way, the journey is made pretty easy by the fact that most of the long haul [...]
Back to the Future
Wednesday, 23rd July 2008 • Life • No comments
I’ve decided to blog about our wedding and honeymoon trip from Switzerland to Scotland and back again and this is the first entry. You can see all the entries in [...]
getURL and target “_self” not working?
Tuesday, 22nd July 2008 • Geek stuff, Internet • No comments
If you’re a Flash or web developer, then you may come across a security-invoked problem whereby links inside your Flash movie don’t react, when you try and open a link [...]
Strobism in the old city of Bern
Monday, 21st July 2008 • Friends and Family, Individual photographs, Technique • No comments
I’ll be photographing a band in Bern at the end of next week with a couple of friends and so Jo and I headed to Bern last weekend to scout [...]
St. Peter and Paul, Bern, Switzerland
Saturday, 19th July 2008 • Photography • No comments
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The central aisle of the “Christ catholic” cathedral in Bern, named for saints Peter and Paul. This is the seat of the Swiss reformist catholic [...]
Life amongst death
Saturday, 19th July 2008 • Travel • No comments
A visit to the ruined city of Pompeii is primarily about history, destruction and death. But there is a great deal of life there too; not just the tourists in [...]
In case you were wondering…
Friday, 18th July 2008 • Internet • 1 comment
…the pencil drawings and lighter boxes are the first trial steps towards a re-design, the first in three years. Not all changes this month will be offline.
Into the end
Friday, 18th July 2008 • Life, Work • No comments
In a day less than two weeks, I shall be leaving this office for the last time. I have been working at this desk for nearly three years and in [...]

