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Today’s Exercise

September 26, 2020 by Simon Robinson 2 Comments

Another morning, another pier walk under a clear sky, the shadow lengths already halved while the sun continued to rise towards the upper meridian transit of the solar noon.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, dun laoghaire, james lovelock, mars, photography, photos, walking

Four Photos Of The Day

September 8, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

The weather has improved for today only or so we were told. It has been such a long time since we’ve seen 24C here in Dublin that I headed to Clontarf and Dollymount Strand on North Bull Island to take some coastal photographs.

View across to Dollymount kites from Merrion Strand.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: dublin bay, kite surfing, photography, photos

Carriers and Barriers

September 7, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Who knows what ‘normal’ activities will be after this time of pandemic has passed? Who knows how to chart the path to an unknowable future from an uncertain present and a disputed past? Who knows how to prioritise public health and economic performance?

Tern and ships where Big John once set anchor.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: aircraft carrier, brexit, caspian, eperanto, ics, language, pandemic, photography, travel, wikipedia

Banquet Gānbēi

August 30, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I’m on the mailing list for the The London Review of Books and every now and then their Diverted Traffic anti-news newsletter catches me with an appetite for a morsel from their archives.

While I enjoy these essays, reviews and stories, I savour the memories that they invoke. I’m living a lot of my life in my head at the moment and remembering unusual experiences gives me food for thought and a recipe for journaling.

  • Saturn V, NASA Clear Lake, 1985
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, china, food, franz kafka, geophysics, gustav kirchhoff, lia mills, libran writer, long ling, lrb, nasa, photography, science fiction, teaching, texas, travel

Home is Here

August 29, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Our home is somewhere in this photo, Home from Howth. I can see the gable wall peering out at me but I won’t share the exact location in such a public forum. I can also see the house where my parents raised my brother and me over some twenty five years. It’s quite something to resolve such detail across eleven kilometres of sea.

You will also see Bulloch Castle at the bottom, about a fifth of the way in from the right (or west). I also think it’s quite something to look back in time to the fortified building style needed by Cistercian Monks during the 12th century in order to protect their fishing rights.

Home from Howth © Simon Robinson 2016.
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To 180 and Beyond

August 27, 2020 by Simon Robinson 1 Comment

I don’t know that I’ve ever had a truly original thought. That said, this is consecutive journal post number 180. That’s six months of nothing new every day. If journaling was darts …

Caveat emptor: my daily musings may be incomplete and incorrect.

Killiney Obelisk and Sugar Loaf from Baily (11 km and 24 km distance respectively)
Canon 1D-X (2011) with MTO-11CA 1000mm (1957) f/10.5 1/5000s ISO 4000
© Simon Robinson 20170827

Today’s photo was taken across Dublin Bay through haze this day three years ago. The digital haze clearance and clarity adjustment has introduced an unnatural light effect that is curiously attractive. I had been introduced to the MTO lens the year before and I finally made my way back to the owner with a Canon adaptor. I liked the idea of a 1000mm lens so much that I bought a second hand copy I saw sitting cheaply in Mr CAD Photographic in Pimlico. My MTO-11CA was built in November 1993 from the 1950s design and I’ve already journaled some results from when we lived in London.

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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, brian greene, charles darwin, evolution, jbs haldane, mto, nepotism, photo, photography, the samaritans

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