Click for a 1280 by 1024 desktop wallpaper image with a January 2010 calendar on it.

Can you guess where the postcard photo was taken from? I’ve been printing calendars. Back to work Monday, kicking off with the data handling module.

Polish tea bags and Walker Evans

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Digbeth Is Good is a blog devoted to a part of Birmingham I walk through most days. The chip shop is being done up. I hope they keep the sign.

Fujifilm Finepix J12 point and shoot makes nice classroom pictures. Battery has to be removed for charging.

It is that time of year again, teaching will be under way in a month or less. This photo makes me think about negotiating the ground rules with new classes of students (I’m a bit more liberal than the ‘manager’). I’ll need to add in some rules about using Moodle/e-mail as well, if only to [...]

14% partial eclipse visible from Midlands despite showers and cloud.

Francois Jakob quote from his autobiography called The Statue Inside about science found on the side of a building on the University of Birmingham campus

DigiKam has a nice range of photoediting tools

Delphinium flower mimics a bee.

The multimedia capture device we all carry

And, for heaven’s sake,
Cormac McCarthy?

Folly open for exhibition

Mobile phone art again…

Brass corners on your tables to make them last longer

Quotes from construction workers

First winter holiday for 5 years…

Munich disaster remembered in Dudley

Dec 2007

Time passes

Oxford is an hour and a quarter away on the train…

What a name for a boat

Not a bad one as signs go…

Some signs are accidental

Curzon Street Station – building without a use at present

Sycamore leaf caught in chain fence

street furniture suffers badly in some areas…

Chalk drawing of a man in a top hat on a boarded up door in Wolverhampton

Monochrome photos from the Dales

Strong colours and plane of focus

Kodak EasyShare C310 for quick snaps

Wooden toy found at the Frankfurt Christmas Market that is in Birmingham UK at present.

Out and about with slowish colour film and a macro lens (55mm). I find the very sharp depth of field attractive under some circumstances, but it is tricky to choose the right plane of focus looking at the little ground glass screen with the camera hand held.

The shop signs in the Stratford road show recent changes in ownership, and advertise the new approaches to retail provided by the Internet.

28mm and around town. Just a few views taken with a film camera over the last week. I’m really getting back into the 28mm focal length on 35mm film.

Priceless

Its for a story

Saxon church – some photies

A favourate focal length regained.

Jinpow exhibition with a nice Flash site

Photoshop and then copy paste a calendar in

Ruth wants to visit Chicago again one day, this picture looks like my idea of small town US.

Ruth likes the idea of Canada

Just some photos

More photos of the street

Black rust form mould grows in concentric circles

Some snaps on a visit with sunshine

Convection cells in a round bottomed flask

Bike with wire

Some of the better snapshots over the week… mostly Fuji Reala and Jessops processing and scanning

Just back: images soon

Photoshop edge detect works best with strong outlines

Crate in shop window in Warsaw, Poland. Margarine?

Red brick from Ruabon changes colour in the rain…

The Robert Frank coloring book is a series of outline drawings by Jno Cook based on Robert Frank’s book The Americans
Jno Cook was trying to make a case about the interpretation of Frank’s book
The rest of Cook’s web site is interesting – he is an artist and fully paid up member of the US Awkward [...]

Cropping from quick photo on the bus

This ended up in the inbox

Wet dusk does streetlights, digital camera

Chilling out

Podcast interviews – DIY Studs Terkel?

Stan’s Cafe and others start the hohoho web site dedicated to unusual christmas lights

Mistake leads to interesting image

Multitasking doesn’t work very well

This tomb shows a very scary painted figure and an old style horroscope. The place must have looked totally different when the walls were polychrome murals and lit entirely by candles….

When photographers include the Moon or Sun in a picture, you can find the angle of view and the focal length of the lens by a simple application of trigonometry.

Is Keith the new Kevin?

Coventry covered market has good light and isn’t always full..

Macro lenses are ace – but there is so much detail around…

Is the hand painted decoration on my Taramundi an accurate logarithmic or equiangular spiral or not?

Looking at things through a simple jeweler’s loup can provide a refreshing ‘take’

The word ‘fall’ was used in Elizabethan England to describe autumn – now it has become a US word but still the best one.

Cropping 800/1840 ratio from front left of a frame taken with a 24mm lens gives a ‘normal’ perspective.

Nice stuff from Magnum nominee

grab shots, guessed exposure

List of typical camera explosures for 400 ASA film – handy for when you forget the meter when using a seriously old camera

Bolton Abbey in Warfedale, Yorkshire

Trees and shadows in local wood. Signs of human activity but no one seen.

Spray can tags on a steel bridge and a newly painted wall

Stan Brakhage – film maker

Pictures around Birmingham city ring road

Chromagenic monochrome again, but this time with some tweaking. Curves on the door (corresponding to a two bath developer characteristic) and contrast on the roof.

Kodak chromagenic black and white film… has a cyan mask on the negatives so the photolab prints come out close to greyscale with a nice duotone look.

Wall on outhouse in a yard in Wallasey.

Photos from my route to work

Nice bank holiday and good luck with the exams!

Olympus digicam on ‘macro’.

Dmitri Baltermans was an ‘official’ Soviet photographer. His war photographs are bleak and direct. Mark Bernstein quotes Lilia Efimova about the media coverage of the war memorial on May 9th in Moscow.