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Photography

Phone Photography

Tonight’s images for the Godalming Photographic Club competition had to be taken on a phone. Manipulation off the phone was permitted. I used Lightroom on my phone, after trialling some of the effects on the desktop version.

Lattice Window, Lacock Abbey (after Fox Talbot)

This is a replica of what some regard as the ‘first photograph‘, and I thought it was interesting to see what a modern phone could do with the subject. I did edit this to differently expose the inside and outside areas. I don’t suppose Fox Talbot had that option for his first images!

Yellow Rose

This image was taken at a members evening at the club, where we had the opportunity to take still life images of various subjects. For the edit here, I used only Apple Photos, mostly to get just the right 1:1 crop.

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Archiving my Workbench Blog

I’ve converted the other blog on this domain (Workbench) to a set of static files, and removed the underlying WordPress instance that was serving it. I’ve not been using the blog since 2015, and it seems rather wasteful of resources to dynamically host a set of (now) static pages.

I used ‘export‘ to create an xml representation I can perhaps use in the future if I ever want to re-awaken the blog, and I used the Simply Static plugin to create an entirely static file version of the site. That’s been dropped in as a replacement at the same URL the blog existed at, so links should still work!

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Photography

People and Portraits

For tonight’s competition, the theme was ‘People and Portraits’

Richard, curious in Brussels

A lesson in storytelling here – the judge entirely missed that the dog is a statue. I think I would need more of it in the frame to make that clearer.

Sprint

Taken at the Guildford Crits, in 2022.