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Dog Walk HDR I

January 8, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Like all dogs, Gus is getting slower as he ages. His main pump is failing; slowly but inexorably. If you accept that there is there is a relationship between the mammalian heart rate and overall life expectancy, you will already to know to expect late life heart issues for otherwise healthy pets. This may say nothing about their enthusiasm. For example, Gus loves the snow and today, he was out and about, running on snow and slipping on ice. He was segmenting and ranging on familiar paths, back and forth, excited by the snow while I was taking photographs. Today’s ambition, for me, was to take a series of high dynamic range photos of relatively mundane subjects as I walked quickly around our local hill.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: Bill Bryson, booklink, dog, gallery, photography, walking

Dumb Observations

January 7, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Surplus

You instinctively know how to gauge restaurant sizes or bus capacity by seat count rather than floor area. But would you buy farmland by the hectare or the number of goats it can support? We humans make value assessments in our personal lives all day long and rarely pause to question if the way we do it is appropriate. 

My photo of a toy car on the roof of a parked car illustrates some Dumb Observations that include driving over the lens that took this photo.
Car on Car © Simon Robinson 2010
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, photography, thomas packenham

Still An Issue

January 6, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

It was back in 2003 when first I read that John Pilger had won the Sophie Prize. He was surprised, to judge from the tone of his acceptance speech. His journalism has always been quite outspoken about the imperialist and colonialist agendas of many ‘western’ countries like his native Australia, the UK and of course, the US.

This photograph of mine that I've printed onto one of my scarves, links to my memories of Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World and the Sophie Prize.
Library Rising © Simon Robinson 2013 (this day, Jan 6)
A place to read Sophie’s World or a scarf to wear. See others at FabHappy
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, colum mccann, fabhappy, john pilger, jostein gaarder, palestine, photos, simonscarves, sophie prize

Exploding Flowers

January 5, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I’ve been asked more than once about what I consider to be my favourite post so far. It’s hard to remember them all and besides, I’m uncomfortable selecting let alone rating my own stuff. Perhaps Dream might be the most satisfying favourite or recently, I enjoyed writing Time Reverses. I also enjoyed being the lead in the story of failing to get a good shot of the moon in Sea and Light, only to get a better shot than I could have imagined. Who knows, perhaps readers might one day tell me their favourites?

  • 2019 Good
  • 2020 Better
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: art, cai guo-qiang, photography, sahara, walking

Monochrome Choice

January 4, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

No matter what I read or see of the great monochrome photographers, whether it be Ansel Adams or Edward Weston or Michael Kenna or Edward Steichen or perhaps Donn McCullin or Vivian Maier, I don’t seem to learn enough to be satisfied with my own efforts. These people are some of the greatest proponents of their arts but sometimes their superb work undermines rather than inspires. I think these are normal but sometimes very frustrating limits on our aspirations. As I was taught when I had motorcycle racing aspirations, if you see someone in your mirror that wasn’t there last time you looked, give way, because they are better than you.

Foreground West Pier Dun Laoghaire.
Background decommissioned Pigeon House.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: ansel adams, donn mccullin, dun laoghaire, edward steichen, edward weston, michael kenna, photography, the muglins, vivian maier

On Feeders and Dots

January 2, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I made some notes this morning as I was having my coffee and granola. I’d been thinking about today’s perihelion before I was diverted. The sun, if you see it, is five million kilometres closer than it will be in July though it’s not much closer than it was yesterday or will be tomorrow. So don’t expect it look any bigger.

I looked out my window and this is what I saw this freezing cold morning.
I needed a 400 mm zoom to share the charming goldfinches and solo siskin with you.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: astrophysics, bird watching, brian cox, brian greene, carl sagan, geophysics, john glenn, katherine johnson, manchán magan, pandemic, photos, robin ince, sars-cov-2, yuri gargarin

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