Author: John

Archiving my Workbench Blog

Post author By John
Post date November 6, 2024

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!

Photography

People and Portraits

Post author By John
Post date October 30, 2024

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

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.

Taken at the Guildford Crits, in 2022.

Photography

Print Competition Entries

Post author By John
Post date October 9, 2024

In the second competition of the 2024/25 season, I could enter two images from different genres, as prints:

One of the earliest images I took with an SLR camera, this was taken in 2015 in the Peak District. I’ve liked it since then, and I re-developed it for this version, better capturing the sky and shadow detail.

This is a more recent image, and from a series I took this summer to share our garden. This has been a postcard mailed to Richard, and was also part of my final submission for the Discover Your Genre course I took.