The sun undergoes an 11-year cycle of activity and as we approach a maximum, the number of storms on the solar surface which can lead to an aurora increase in both frequency and strength. The current cycle is approaching maximum and has
I am slowly settling into my new home in the Lake District. I have not as yet got to go into the mountains to the extent that I had hoped – this will come as less time is focused on the house
Time for a bit of an update. There have been fewer posts recently but there have been reasons for that. A major one, which took up the first half of the year, was finishing my degree, which I started when I retired.
A different wander today. If your hobby is astronomy, as mine has been since I was ten years old, expect to wander in all sorts of directions. Why? Because astronomy touches many areas, and you can as a result acquire many other
Above is a standard digital photo taken with a modern mirrorless digital camera using a 24-70mm lens. It has had some minor editing in Lightroom including some cropping to change aspect ratio, and to balance the exposure of the sky and foreground.
Here’s a photography discussion I didn’t think I’d be having: should I switch away from Nikon full-frame cameras and lenses? I’ve been a Nikon user since my early 20s when I bought a Nikon FG20 film camera. I think it was their
I thought I would write about an alternative photographic process known as ‘cyanotype’. The process takes its name from the characteristic blue colour of the monochrome images it creates. The process is historically important as it was the first to use a
Posts are like buses, none for a while and then a flurry of activity. My last post covered the work I’d been doing for a university project. During the break, I had a short trip to the Lake District staying in Grasmere.
I think readers will be aware that apart from astrophotography my main interest from a photography viewpoint is landscape and architecture. These have featured the least on my degree course, which has spent most of its time covering genres such as still
Time for adventures in bookbinding. I went on my first bookbinding course last summer run by the Field Studies Council (FSC) at the National Trust property at Flatford Mill in Suffolk. I’ve just been there again. I’m acutely aware that my bookbinding