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Decisions, decisions…

After trading in my Canon kit, I confess I was seduced by the idea of owning all the great lenses I’d read about in Fuji discussions. It’s not nearly so huge a range of lenses as the Canon system – in fact it seemed pretty achievable, so I went for broke and bought a whole bunch of shiny Fuji glass: 16, 18-55, 23, 35, 56, 60, 90. And I’ve hardly taken a photo since then. Every time we’d go out…

Braemar, Scotland, August 2015

Pine woods, Linn of Dee, Braemar, Scotland.

Scots pine, Linn of Dee.

Morrone birch woods, above Braemar (iPhone 6+)

iPhone panorama of Morrone birch woods.

In April 2014, The Lab Times published an interview with Sir Tim Hunt, 2001 Nobel Laureate. In that interview, Tim was asked: “In your opinion, why are women still under-represented in senior positions in academia and funding bodies?” His reply was as follows:

“I’m not sure there is really a problem, actually. People just look at the statistics. I dare, myself, think there is any discrimination,…

Saturday morning, the sun was shining and I had a morning pass, so I went to Lakenheath Fen, and took the telescope with the little Fuji X100 stuck on the end. Blimey – it’s hard work! The focal length is equivalent to around 1,000mm, the depth of field is tiny, and I reckon only about 1/20 of the images were sharp. Practice makes perfect and I have a lot of practising to do, but to be honest…

For the past 20yrs, I’ve never been able to see daylight out of any window of any office I’ve worked in – such is life in the IT department. Yesterday I went out for a walk in the Botanic Gardens, and thought I’d put my fleece on in case it was nippy out, but summer took me by surprise…