Writing
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Sir Thomas Browne observes a murmuration of starlings
Quote from ‘Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk More Especially on the Birds and Fishes’.
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A brush with the mob
In which the local jackdaws and rooks encounter an unusual foe.
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On misunderstanding Larkin
It wasn’t until many years after encountering a favourite passage of Larkin’s poetry that I realised I had fundamentally misunderstood his view of photography.
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Reading in the Guggenheim
Although I tend not to dabble in street photography, every now and again an opportunity presents itself, and I feel compelled to reach for my camera.
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Venice: a model for car-free living?
It is entirely possible, it turns out, for a city to function without cars and vans and lorries. Who would have thought it? But is it practical?
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Eclipse
Photographing this morning’s partial solar eclipse.
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136 snail shells & a pint of shorts
As life events go, Shetland 1985 turned out to be right up there.
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How to digitise photos from slides or negatives without a scanner
I digitised some 30-year-old Kodachrome slides this week. Some notes to remind myself what I did.
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Bloodless grouse-shoot
After 20 years walking on the Moor, I finally bag a brace of decent grouse photos.
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Getting jittery about swallows
It’s getting to that time of year again. Swallows are on their way.
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My bat-shit crazy hypothesis about rooks
A ridiculous observation concerning rooks, which can’t possibly be right.
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Book review: ‘A Book of Silence’ by Sara Maitland
A journey in search of the pleasure and powers of silence.