4#-year-old shorts-wearing, bicycle-using,  beard-having, cold-preferring adult human. Immediate progenitor of wingpiglets.

LIKES: Fresh air, walking, cycling, thinking, photographing, turnips, coffee, trees, science, books and things.

INDIFFERENT TOWARDS: Excessive personal grooming, excessi Read more...

4#-year-old shorts-wearing, bicycle-using,  beard-having, cold-preferring adult human. Immediate progenitor of wingpiglets.

LIKES: Fresh air, walking, cycling, thinking, photographing, turnips, coffee, trees, science, books and things.

INDIFFERENT TOWARDS: Excessive personal grooming, excessive popularity and the pursuit thereof, most computer games, the consoles upon which such games are played and tea.

LOATHES: Oafishness, twattiness, boorishness, sefishness, hoitiness, team ball sports, people who treat motor vehicles as anything other than a potentially deadly weapon, climate change denialists, lecherousness, chauvinism and misogyny, stripey shirts with white collars (and in fact all office-clothing, the stilted and unnatural language of the modern office environment and people disrespecting the planet.

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In the past I tried and failed to text-blog persistently; I registered on a couple of blogsites but did very little with them. After being a relatively late adopter of digital photography in 2004 I returned to medium-to-heavy picture-taking in 2006 and subsequently swiftly outgrew my second and third digital cameras. I had been managing to upload fresh pictures to Flickr and caption a few reasonably regularly when this place turned up. It's a nice balance: only one picture need be processed each day (theoretically; in practice, there was usually a choice) and the words can be a simple description of what's in the picture (or what's in the head at the time of writing) to a multiply-paragraphed and heavily-detailed account of the day's happenings, the filtered output of the brain over the course of the day or a mixture, or nothing. After ramping up a bit from the initial a-few-words-about-the-image I sunk to emitting lengthy whines about the incapabilities of my cameraphone when my (at the time) proper camera went away for repair. When it was returned the length of entry remained and the whines partially disappeared, though resumed until I replaced that proper camera with a proper proper camera. Gradually, with children to wrangle, I drifted away from taking lots of pictures with a big camera and trying to get the best picture to just using whatever was available on my phone, just to fill the space and note the occurrences.

Currently occasionally using a Nikon D7000, eventually upgraded to from the D80 (which was a close call with the 400D on features, but it fitted my hand better) when it started proving inadequate for capturing wingpiglets in low light. The D80 was my first digital SLR after nine months of hitting the limits of a Fujifilm Finepix s9500, following two years with the Finepix s5000, after eighteen months with my first digital camera. a crap plastic-lens 1.3Mpx four-second-shutter-lag battery-compartment-held-on-by-tent-elastic thing (fortunately stolen from the car) which followed a couple of years of cameralessness  after my Praktica BX20 started getting shutter issues at the start of the century. Most stuff at the time of originally writing this profile uses the 35mm f/1.8 (as I missed the 35mm f/2D so much); sometimes a 50mm f/1.4D (8/10), 105mm f/2.8 micro VR (10/10), rarely a 70-300 f/4-5.6 (4/10) when I need some foreshortening and even more rarely the 24mm f/2.8D (6/10). Previously used the 35mm f/2D (8/10), 60mm f/2.8D micro (8/10), 50mm f/1.8D (9/10), the 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G DX (6/10) which came with the D80.

*except where I've had to use a mobile phone picture or an exported still from a bike camera. There's nothing like the desperation of not wanting to leave a gap to remove any daft notions of not wanting to post just anything.