Two images from a themed competition tonight: ‘Less is more’:
The Peak District
The judge felt that this image was too complete, and too complex to meet the brief. I think it needed the title to work at all as ‘less is more’, and that was a stretch too far. The judge also felt there is too much yellow in the grass. I have just done a small edit to remove that, and it does look better!
Concorde Dream
More successfully ‘on brief’ the judge felt this image worked well. The border was important, and the grey mount I showed the print in was also felt to add to the presentation.
The recent camera club competition was for a Triptych, with no other guidance. We were given help about how to assemble them into one image for submission to the competition. I had two entries
New uses for the IBM Building, Brussels
Taken on a recent holiday in Brussels, this building caught my eye, as IBM seemed to have named offices around the world, often with quite striking architecture. These were taken with an iPhone.
Museum Concorde
Taken on a recent photography trip to Brooklands, with the explicit aim of getting a Triptych to submit.
For both of these images, the judge felt that the third image belonged less well, and something different in their place would have made the Triptych’s stronger.
I’m putting a lot of time into learning and experimenting with languages for Microcontrollers. I’m ‘between jobs’ at the moment, and this seems like an interesting technical space to explore with the available time. I read ‘Crafting Interpreters‘ over the Christmas holidays, and was inspired to see if I could get the language running on a microcontroller. I’ve also experimented a few times recently with Raspberry Pi Pico’s, and I have been struck by how powerful they are, and how pleasant it is to program them in a dynamic language.
The software is an interpreted language based on ‘Lox’ from Crafting Interpreters. I’ve extended the bytecode vm, the compiler and so on to enable access to the gpio pins on the Pico. I’ve ‘hard coded’ a PIO image in to drive the WS2812 leds on a GPIO pin.
The 4Tronix Cube supplies a 40-pin connector for the ‘classic’ Raspberry Pi computers (I started experiments with this using a Pi Zero). This is jumpered across to power the Pico, and connect the ‘WS2812’ LED string to GPIO 18. The breadboard hosts a zener diode in the power line (so you can plug in USB to the Pico without issue), and a reset button for the pico.
I’m calling my language Yarg (for now), after the Cornish cheese. It seems a nice small name, and food related like Lox. I enjoy the cheese!
