2021 became the second consecutive year in which Marlborough College Summer School was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. So it is great news that 2022 should see it re-established as one of the premier events of its kind. Please see my courses page for more information about my own offerings and links to the summer school […]
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Swallowed my pride – I’m now a subscriber!
After several years of running Lightroom 6.14 (the last shrink-wrap version) due to my aversion to paying Adobe a subscription to use a later version, I’ve finally bitten the bullet and am now a subscriber. Several incremental upgrades have made making this step easier for me (the texture slider and dehaze without faffing with presets, […]
Marlborough College Summer School cancelled for a second year
Although, as previously noted, I decided to cancel my courses back in May, the summer school was still going ahead at that time. International students and tutors from abroad were excluded some time ago, this being one reason numbers were down this year, contributing to the cancellation of my courses. With the delay to the […]
Courses at Marlborough cancelled for 2021
Marlborough College’s Summer School is still scheduled to run this year, having been cancelled due to Covid-19 last year. Some courses have been selling well but, for my own courses at least, numbers seem to be down. and so I’ve regretfully taken the decision with the College to withdraw my courses for this year. I […]
Winchester Arts News uses my image
An image I created almost exactly a year ago has been used by Winchester Arts News as the banner image in their December 2020 newsletter. I was contacted by the organisers, asking for my permission to use the image a few days ago, which I duly gave. The image was an entry to an internal […]
Courses announced for summer 2021
2020 has been a challenging year for everyone for a number of reasons, but the new coronavirus has impacted pretty much everyone. One of the events affected by the changes in the way we currently live our lives was the Marlborough College Summer School. Originally scheduled to run mid-July to early August 2020, it was, […]
Projects under lockdown II
The second project I managed to complete was a so-called “valve sensor” for the Camera Axe trigger I built three (!) years ago. This is connected to one of the sensor ports on the trigger, which can then open or close a solenoid-operated valve on the sensor, allowing water from a reservoir to flow through […]
Projects under lockdown I
Like many others, I guess, I haven’t felt too motivated to take photographs during the Coronavirus lockdown. To stave off boredom, however, I have been looking at a pile of “to-do” projects that I’ve stacked up over the last couple of years. I’m pleased to say that I’ve now completed a couple of them. My […]
Emulating LiveND
While I don’t see anything in the E-M1 MkIII that makes me want to dash out and buy it, I was intrigued by the LiveND feature. I saw it mentioned on the E-M1x but didn’t pay much attention as I was even less interested in that model. Anyway, it turns out to be quite simple […]
Windows 10 – SSD system drive missing
Four years ago, I replaced the system drive in my ageing (April 2010!) Windows 7 system with a Crucial SSD to give it a bit of a speed boost. It was a fast system for its day (quad-core i7 CPU) and installing the SSD meant I could put off upgrading for while. It worked well […]