I’ve a long standing interested both in experimental photography and time lapse photography. Back in October I picked up a new GoPro camera in the hope of using it for astrophotography, but it tuns out to be rather unsuited to that. The GoPro Hero 3, does have a time lapse mode though, so I’ve been …
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Nine Years
So, nine years of affable-lurking. That’s a lot longer than I thought I’d keep this up. Not that sporadically updating a website is particularly hard work. The domain started as a laugh, a feeble ‘joke / pun’ for those in the know, then having paid for the domain for two years, putting some content here …
Stacking
I’ve been playing with some time-lapse photography lately. There’s really two things you can do with time-lapse, make a video, or stack the images and get a single dynamic image. I’ve done the latter of the two in this image. It’s around a thousand images taken at five-second intervals over the course of a few …
Prime Time (-ish)
Today at 2:03:05, the date and time, if you write it in a particular form, is a string of the first six prime numbers: 02:03:05:07:11:13 This only works if you use DD/MM/YY format for the date, and not the American MM/DD/YY, or the more sensible YYYY/MM/DD format. So, just after lunch take a look at …
Spider Season
As autumn draws in we start to see more spiders around the house, what are they are why are there here? The most commonly encountered UK house spider is Tegenaria Duellica, this cute little fellow: I saw fellow because the great majority of these you’ll see are males – you can tell by the …