This is my personal blog about photography, software and computing, and DIY, electronics and making. I write mainly from first-hand experience: practical projects, repairs, experiments, and things learned along the way.
A curated selection of articles from each principal subject.
Photography, photographic equipment, technique, processing, and images.
The 7Artisans 6mm f2 fisheye lens is a very affordable ultra wide angle lens available for many different mirrorless camera systems - but what is it like to use and how good are the photos it produces?
This post describes my experience trying out the technique of 'Shooting from the Hip' during Street Photography
This post is going to look at the Ricoh GXR VF-2 viewfinder for the Ricoh GXR mirrorless camera.
Software development, computing, systems, hosting, and related technology.
A post describing how I merged three WordPress sites into the new Everything Vintage site I released a couple of days ago.
This post explains the basics of adding Ajax to a backend Advanced Custom Fields form.
DIY projects, electronics, repairs, fabrication, and making.
This post is the first in a short series describing my experiences of building a Dunster House log cabin in our back garden.
This post follows on from a short series I wrote a few weeks ago and describes how I added a Tuin garden extension to our Log Cabin
Is it worth fitting solar panels on a north facing roof space in the UK? This article looks at the data from my own solar array and tries to answer that question.