Strangely Perfect

Amazing and Weird When the pictures were taken, it was nearly pitch dark outside! The shots are in 2 columns below, taken at about 1 this morning.  Those on the left are “autoenhanced” using Irfanview as part of the batch resize operation before uploading to the web.  Those on the right are resized without any [...]

Heysel and Beyond Being justifiably upset by the events at the Heysel Stadium many years ago, the recent comments on a video I made about it … … on the 25th anniversary of the awful event made me recall some TV reporting of what was reputedly  to be a Juventus “fan” brandishing a gun on [...]

A few test pictures using the “Starry Sky” setting on my Panasonic Lumix TZ5.  The pictures were done using a tripod at the three timer settings  that are inbuilt for that setting; 15s, 30s & 60s.    The sky was quite brightly lit due to some thin mist acting as a reflector for the urban lighting.

Many moons ago, before Crawling Chaos, I had an interest in astronomy.  In those days, only professionals took photos of stars and it was hard, as you needed plates and plate holders stuck on the back of your telescope, and a dark room to develop pictures.  Telescope needed to be motor driven to track the [...]

Toddling off tonight with the dog, I had a little play with the thing.  Previously, here and here, I’ve talked about my knackered F30 camera.  I feel that its night vision isn’t the same as the previous one, but there is more lee-way with the settings.  What I mean is I think the ISO3200 is [...]

Rob a Bank! This is inspired by a recent glut of like-titled spam that I’ve received… Bonnie & Clyde John Dillinger

The BBC have a little video piece today about a B17 Flying Fortress, The Liberty Belle, which is visiting the UK, today.  Within the piece is a link which I urge people to follow through to this page, http://www.libertyfoundation.org/history-photos.html Please watch all the pictures through in the slide-show.  Anyone with any trace of empathy for [...]