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Mourne Sunset

May 9, 2020 by Simon Robinson 2 Comments

Mourne May Sunset © Simon Robinson 2020

Yesterday, the mystery was the wind. Today, it may well be teaspoons.

That AA Milne poem came back to me as I photographed a landscape of the Mourne Mountains in the light of last night’s setting sun. I knew I wouldn’t get a sharp image of anything because the air was moving as thermals, returning the day-borrowed heat into the atmosphere. Locally becalmed in our isolation, yes, but the Mournes are 100 km distant. All of that radiating heat becomes a cooling and distorting visible haze over that distance of an evening.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: fabhappy, lightroom, mountains, photography, photos, simonscarves, tv

Non-obviousness

April 29, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I sat down to write about non-obviousness as a thought experiment. I’d cleared my desk of a litter of barely legible notes, making room for a Gedankenexperiment and a second cup of strong coffee. These notes were written in bed in the dark between 4 and 5 this morning. That’s a trick I learned from Lia though it’s taken me twenty years to put it into practice. 

Then my phone almost saved me from myself. I was contacted, though not tasked, to see if there were any giraffes in my study. A safari of this kind required I reload an enormous back-catalogue of photos into Lightroom which left me with time and coffee-energy to write up a non-obvious journal entry.

Giraffes found in my study from Masai Mara in Kenya and Fota Wildlife Park in Cork.
The lower Irish giraffe is a scarf idea for simonscarves at FabHappy
All photographs © Simon Robinson
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: fota, judith butler, lightroom, masai mara, Maslow, oscar wilde, patents, photos, safari, ucd, ungrievable

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