Click on the image to view larger version on Flickr. El Teide, Tenerife, 2004. As far as I can recall, this is the highest I've ever been without the aid of an actual airplane, and definitely the first and so far only time I've ever been in or on a volcano. The peak, which towers... Continue Reading →
If iCloud Drive Gets Stuck
Edit: Although initially the solution described below seemed to work, the problem reappeared in less than a week. However this time it seems to come and go, as opposed to not working at all. Your experience may vary. I use iCloud Drive on a Windows 10 computer, and it worked well until recently when all... Continue Reading →
About time … and time again
The ancient druids would have been beside themselves with excitement! Found the original on the webs but in awful condition. Located a better resolution and less mangled original image (still uncredited), reworked the text (top half), added some of my own (bottom half), and, well, in the words of Goldblum, there it is! Personally I... Continue Reading →
Red Twins
Random sighting of two ancient communication enclosures in Manchester, England, shortly prior to the Great Continental Exodus of the early Third Millennium, CE. Click to view larger version on Flickr ~ · ~“That belongs in a museum!”— Dr. Henry Jones, Jr.~ · ~ The apparent likeness to similarly sized and shaped portable enclosures for personal... Continue Reading →
E:D Undistortified
by CMDR inshadowz The game Elite:Dangerous makes for particularly amazing screenshots, and I take a large number of such myself. The only problem is, the images are often heavily distorted, just like wide angle photographs tend to be, and if you're anything like me then you get somewhat annoyed by this. Fortunately there are ways... Continue Reading →
Older photo from the back archives. Click image for a larger view on Flickr.com “I … was … here.” A temporary signature, on a slightly less temporary canvas, by a temporary being, in a slightly less temporary world. None of this is permanent. Photography is about capturing moments, as, if or when they happen. Mostly... Continue Reading →
Towards Light
Click the image to view larger version on Flickr. Lysaker Station. “I'm going towards the light!” Just to get on the train, mind you. It's not like my life is passing before my eyes, it's just that I prefer if my train doesn't. Originally intended for black and white, but I included a colour version... Continue Reading →
Stare of a Crow
*stares in Crow* Click on the image to see bigger version on Flickr. I somehow get the feeling that this bird disapproves of something I've done. Like, taking his picture, or posting him on the Interwebs without first asking him for permission. Or for just being there to be looked disapprovingly at. There's nothing quite... Continue Reading →
Surely, these are not turtles!
You may click images to see larger versions on Flickr. Also on Instagram, Flickr, Facebook. Someone said something about turtles … and I don't get it. These two should probably get a room, though. Seriously, they were kissing the place up, like, really totally crazy. Also I did both a colour and a black and... Continue Reading →
Composition of Green Light, Red Music
Click image to view on Flickr. Incidentally that's my brother's electric bass — and if you're now looking around for a sparkly fish in the picture, then you have entirely the wrong idea. I went for the “inverse traffic light” colour sequence; green at the top, yellow in the middle, and red at the bottom,... Continue Reading →
Motherboard Lost
Click image for larger version, or here to view on Flickr. I have absolutely no idea where this came from, or whose motherboard it is, or was, as the case may be. I can only assume that someone misunderstood about core training, and took her CPU cycles out for a spin. Sadly it seems the... Continue Reading →
Viking Burial Mound
Click image for larger version on Flickr. Viking burial mound at Borrehaugene. This is from Easter Friday. There are more than 25 of these mounds, more or less unevenly distributed around an area which is not only vibrating with ancient history, but also well suited for nice, comfortable walks in the warm and sunny spring... Continue Reading →
Sphere Chairs in Squares
Four Sphere Chairs in Four Squares. Not to be confused with FourSquare™, although that one's also about getting … around? This post is also published on my home page. But surely you've already noticed by now that they're really all variations of the the same picture of the same chair, taken with the same camera,... Continue Reading →
UFO On a Stick
I've seen Men In Black! I know that this there thing is a spaceship, manned by a bug in an Edgar suit. Or a lamppost in the middle of a roundabout. The somewhat taller version below here is just to cater to the more vertically inclined of my viewers. It's actually pretty tall. I'm not... Continue Reading →
In Your General Direction
If you you have the courage to faithfully follow the signs which you encounter throughout your life, you will eventually discover… well, where you end up. For now, it's this way!
Truth in the trenches
Others say it better than I do, but here goes.There is a sinister agenda, or a war, Russian or otherwise, to undermine the value and reputation of scientific work and knowledge, which is gaining momentum at a frightening rate. Science is being contested by nonsense, and so far it looks as if science is losing.Moreover,... Continue Reading →
Insult to injury
It's not until you suffer a little (but painful) cut to your right hand's middle finger, that you realise how much you use it to express yourself.No, I'm not talking about sign language¹. That part still works fine. The problem has to do with typing, both privately and professionally, of which I do a lot!... Continue Reading →
Worlds in the sky
"Why are you so fascinated by those stars? What's so special about them?""They're not stars, they're worlds."Venus (bright) and Jupiter (faint) together on the left, second and fifth rock from the Sun, respectively (though use of the word "rock" to describe a gas giant may be considered criminally incorrect); the first one brighter and closer than... Continue Reading →
Energize the Overmass
I'm not fat! I, uh, just have a little bit of extra accumulated energy storage. OK, maybe a bit more than just a little bit. Don't believe me? There's science to back that up. Honest. The math Because — and I did the numbers on this — if my surplus body weight (~30 kg) underwent a... Continue Reading →
Forgetting Passwords
It's perfectly human to forget passwords. After all, most of us have a whole bunch of them, too many to keep track of in your head, especially when they all have to be different, and long and complex enough to be reasonably unbreakable. What most people seldom realise is, in most cases it's perfectly all right... Continue Reading →
Moment of Mars and Moon
So last night while out driving I saw one of the prettiest sights I've seen in the sky: the half moon shining pale and yellow through a thin and wavy veil of clouds, illuminating them like a frosted glass landscape from within, and flanked on its left side, barely a fist's width distant, by the... Continue Reading →
Don’t Mess With Lunchtime
Like many others, I'm thoroughly annoyed by and tired of the back and forth adjustments between summer time and winter time every year. And although I know which direction to set my clock (always towards summer, spring forward and fall back, folks), at least half the population don't know which way to set theirs, there... Continue Reading →
Orange Plymothy
My sister's cat, Plym, being his own, orange, furry self. Plymothy looking his most absolurably adorbsable in backlight. ~ With eyes a-closed and fur a-glow, Plymothy naps in the window. ~ (Shot in RAW format with iPhone SE and edited on iPad using the Lightroom Mobile app.)
The Murder of Day
With head heavy, eyelids heavier, hand tightly gripping the handle of a pint mug of tea, by now half empty and barely warmer than its surroundings, I sit quietly in a daze, resisting with all my strength the urge to doze off, listening intently to the silence of the room around me, and the whispers... Continue Reading →
Angel of Spring
The angel of spring, tiny as he is, slowly but tirelessly, digging his way, inch by inch, out of what's left of winter. It's been a long, cold wait.