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Flickr Sets

A collection of my photos on Flickr - to which I've uploaded far too many pictures. Enjoy!

Seattle Timelapses

Seattle Timelapses

Last updated: Monday July 9 2012

Thought I'd better upload them at some point - taken over a series of months, here are a couple of the videos I made with the aid of the gloriously home-made Timelapse-O-Tron® 9000. A bit of a learning experience, I'm getting better as I go along. I'm usually less likely to be out of focus these days.

I also need to get round to uploading schematics, source code and whatnot somewhere too.

(Edit: part one is up!)
Seattle July 4th Fireworks

Seattle July 4th Fireworks

Last updated: Thursday July 5 2012

The colonials were getting uppity for some reason. After reclaiming the near-abandoned office for the British Empire and negotiating the reduced-service buses, I went to see some fireworks. They're in celebration of 'independence', or something. Anyone know more?

(Along with some more traditional photos, not uploaded here, I had great fun taking photos of the smoke surrounding the explosions. Fireworks back in the UK are generally around November 5th or the New Year, so I haven't really experienced fireworks in a summer-evening, not-quite-dark sky before. Focus is a bit messed up - and ISO 3200 without much detail makes things a bit hazy anyway - so larger versions don't work so well. Next year, I'll find the fastest ~50mm lens I can beg/steal/borrow - the aim here was to freeze the fireworks in action while picking up as much ambient light as possible, which my 17-55mm f/2.8 wasn't quite up to...)
Modlin Fortress

Modlin Fortress

Last updated: Monday July 2 2012

I started using Flickr around the time I was exploring bits of Poland, but never got round to uploading all that much beyond a few highlights. So, completing one of the trips, here's the vast military fortress at Modlin, north of Warsaw!

Intermeshed fortifications, bunkers and barracks buildings - some from the Napoleonic era, others late 19th century, along with some from shortly before WW2. It was one of the last places to fall in the 1939 invasion of Poland. As ever with anything in Poland, it has some rather unhappy history behind the place.
Boring Photos

Boring Photos

Last updated: Monday July 2 2012

Heading down to central Seattle on the bus, I spotted Big Chunks Of Machinery next to the access hole for the University Link light rail extension tunnels. So, cue quick checking that I had a camera in my bag (yes!), that its battery was charged (yes!) and that I had a memory card (erm... hang on... ancient 128MB effort? Yes!) - then photography of machinery commenced.

Apparently now that the tunnels are almost finished, other parts of the now-superfluous tunnel boring machine have been walled into side-tunnels. These are just some of the bits that could be fished out. Poor thing.

(Please excuse the wonderful summery weather. Seattle is really excelling itself this year.)
Seattle Spring Selection

Seattle Spring Selection

Last updated: Sunday June 24 2012

In case you hadn't noticed, I take too many photos. Here's an arbitrary selection of otherwise un-uploaded pictures from around Seattle (and *cough* Bellevue), from spring of this year. Exciting.

(In other news - if you're reading this on Flickr, go and see my spangly new Web 1.0, antisocial-networking, no-I-don't-have-a-Twitter-account blog-thing - it's got its own RSS feed for poking into Google Reader and the like and everything. But then, everything has an RSS feed these days, including this 'ere Flickr-thing. The excitement truly never ends.)
Washington (and Oregon) Explorations

Washington (and Oregon) Explorations

Last updated: Saturday June 9 2012

My Lightroom folder is big. Far too big. If anyone wanted to reconstruct my life down to the very last femtosecond, mining Lightroom would be a good start.

Here's a brief selection of photos from a trip along the Columbia River valley and into eastern Washington, by way of Mount Rainier. Alpine mountains! Pine forests! Waterfalls! Near-deserts with fossilised tree trunks!

(Washington State is big. But is it bigger than my Lightroom folder?)
Photos of 2003

Photos of 2003

Last updated: Friday May 25 2012

More prehistoric photography? I've dusted the, erm, dust off the pixels and uploaded yet more. One day I shall catch up with the present day!
Georgetown Steam Plant Museum

Georgetown Steam Plant Museum

Last updated: Thursday May 24 2012

So, I was scouring the intertubes for interesting places to visit in the vicinity of Seattle. Lo and behold, up popped the Georgetown Steam Plant museum - a preserved steam power station formerly used to generate electricity for Seattle and its streetcars.

The place has a somewhat complicated opening arrangement (first Sunday of each month, recently changed in a most-of-the-internet-is-wrong kind of way), but entrance is free with informative, informal tours provided by some former employees of the plant.

With the afternoon sunlight streaming through the windows and bouncing off concrete and metal surfaces, it was decayed industrial heaven. It did kind of remind me of a work by a M. Gilles Tran - somewhere there were forgotten families still living amongst the pipes, valves, dials, pistons and chains...

Highly recommended!
Big Island III - Lava Tubes and Volcanoes

Big Island III - Lava Tubes and Volcanoes

Last updated: Thursday May 3 2012

So we were heading back after pigging out on raw tuna and kimchi mussels (yum) and decided to pay a quick visit to a nearby lava tube. Cue chauffeur spotting said lava tube a bit late (I was hopeless) the Canyonero screeching to a halt, a quick hike back and some underground explorations complete with families of tourists going missing in the darkness. Possibly the most alien place I've been yet - we immediately redubbed the place LV-426. Fortunately no Prometheus spoilers laid within.

Later that week, I smuggled myself away into another vehicle heading round to the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park - at which point it started raining. I don't have much success with volcanoes and weather...
Photos of 2002

Photos of 2002

Last updated: Tuesday May 1 2012

With horror, I realised it was exactly ten years since I'd bought my first digital camera - for some reason I though I'd taken my first digital pictures on the 2nd May 2002, but no, it was the 1st. I'm even older than I thought I was!

Camera was (well, is - it still works) a Fujifilm FinePix 6900zoom - not exactly cheap, but with a decent lens and lovely colours. Taking Smartmedia cards, memory space was always an issue - going on holiday with a chunky 72MB over two cards meant every shot mattered. I kind of wish I could do the same with my dSLRs.

Anyway, enjoy this pointless nostalgia! I may have been selecting photos for 2003-2008 as well, which I'll upload at peculiar intervals...

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