Wow, it’s been about six weeks since I last posted. Holidays, laziness, and generally not actually getting any good pictures for a while in the rainy summer we’ve had this year. I finally got some nice shots on a trip to The Roaches. This is presumably a corruption of the french word “rocher” and it’s […]
Every thursday I go to the Museum of Science and Technology in Manchester to volunteer as a demonstator on the SSEM replica, also known as the “Manchester Baby” – the world’s first stored program computer. In 1948 this machine has only 128 bytes of non-permanent storage. Soon after they added a hard drive that had […]
Another trip around Wensleydale, this time through the meadows and fields at the bottom of the valley around the villages of Bainbridge and Askrigg. Again the fields were full of flowers and everywhere you see the pattern of drystone walls and barns that the Dales are famous for. Right now I’m really concentrating on the […]
A walk around the south side of Wensleydale. 9 miles 560 metres View the route on plotaroute.com
OnLandscape magazine has had a series on neutral density graduated filters, with one part on colour accuracy. Tim Parkin, editor and author, happens to mention that his very old Lee resin filters had changed colour over the years and now had a strong colour cast. I had suspected this myself with my own set of […]
