I like old cameras. These were all taken with a Canon 40D. None of the lenses used were particularly expensive, and several were forty years old, from the film era. There is something very satisfying about it all. #photography

The rise of nationalism, isolationism, the far right, prejudice and intolerance would suggest that we did indeed forget some lessons, didn't we?

Another successful open day in Lincoln. I've had some great chats with some enthusiastic young folks and their families, and a few of them might choose our medical school. Hope so. I have also borrowed some of their enthusiasm. Hope they don't mind. I really like this bit of my job.

I believe these tears about as much as I believe in the Easter bunny. The man is a monster. #celebritytraitors

If Alan Carr tries any harder to stifle his current smirk, he is going to give himself a hernia. #celebritytraitors

Thanks again to @medicalprotection.bsky.social for having us at their webinar tonight. We had a great time, met some new folks, made some new friends. It was splendid! #SASsix

Had to walk around the edge of King's Mill reservoir to get back to my car. As hospitals go, mine is pretty! #photography

Playing with cameras and found a few photos from the summer I hadn't transfered off the memory card. I think this is a Ringlet. Not sure I've photographed on of these before or since. Glad to have found this. 90D, 28mm lens. #butterflies #photography

It is #Movember. I will be wearing my moustache with pride, like I do the other 11 months. Movember is about raising awareness about men's cancers and men's mental health. My mental health isn't sparkling this year, but I know I'm not alone. Solidarity, dudes. We'll get through it together.

Autumnal colours on a sunny day. Canon R8, and ancient manual focus 50mm F/1.8 lens adapted. F8. #photography

"That's no moon. It's a space station." Clear night tonight. This was taken with a 500mm manual focus Tokina mirror lens from the 1970s, adapted onto my Canon R8. I used the "loony 11" rule for exposure. It came out about right, ish. F/8, ISO 800, 1/1600s. #photography

We are taking part in a SAS webinar hosted by @medicalprotection.bsky.social on Thursday. See some of you folks there, hopefully! #SASsix

Just recorded a talk for a webinar this week. There was a time I gave a SAS careers talk every couple of weeks. I chalked up 30 one year, which now seems bonkers. Alternative career pathways still need parity of esteem folks, even if I say it slightly less often than I used to. #SASsix

My local farm shop does "rocky roadkill" for Halloween, featuring jelly worms for colour. It is both delicious, and a fantastic portmanteau. Bravo, Maxey's farm shop, creator of intelligent treats. Bravo.

Happy Halloween, folks. Don't let any ghosts bite your ornate squashes. Don't eat too much chocolate. 7D, 24mm F/2.8

Moody after dark photo. Bit cloudy tonight. 80D, wide end of a cheap lens. #photography

I realised I have found a new scene I like to photograph. These three trees to the right of the horizon provide scale to the skyscapes. Various cameras and lenses. #photography

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Here's another shot I took last week on my final Milky Way trip of the season. I still have tons of MW stuff to edit and/or re-edit from my 14 trips to the desert this year but I'm already looking forward to next season! #photography

The combination of the sunset and the clouds almost looked like fire and smoke tonight. Every night, a different sky. Stay at home, and you'll miss it. Nikon D80. Wide end of a cheap lens. #photography

Watching Scream 2. This film was absolutely brilliant. In the first ten minutes we have: A film within a film, retelling of the events of the first film. "Life imitating art imitating life." A scene about sequels, and how they ruined the horror genre, in a horror sequel. It is clever as hell.

Another day, another dog walk, another photo of the same landscape. I need to travel more. Nikon D80, wide end of a cheap lens. #photography #scape

To anyone who cared, the 2003 camera took the green one, and the 2019 camera took the yellow one. They are both compressed for here, otherwise you could tell from the resolution. You can get great images from ancient geat. Inspiring you to take a photo is priceless, even if the camera cost pence.

I quite like stitching multiple portrait orientation images together to make one big landscape. I do this with film too, but digital is much quicker! Enjoyed the colours tonight a lot. Nikon D80, wide end of a cheap lens. #photography #scape #landscape

Pretty colours tonight. The sky is a different painting every night. Remember to look up. Nikon D80, wide end of a cheap lens. #photography

I love this poem by Benjamin Zephaniah, used here to great effect by @zackpolanski.bsky.social Plurality, diversity, tolerance, solidarity, unity, and community. These things ARE Britain. Anyone who wants you to hate your neighbour, is probably selling you something. Don't buy it.

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Is modern camera equipment "better"? Same scene, different ends of June 2025. One of these was taken with a Canon 10D from 2003 and 28mm lens from 1987. The other was taken with a 90D from 2019, and 28mm lens from 2012. Which is which, folks, and which do you prefer? I'll give the answer later.

Been baking for the first time in a while. Checkerboard loaves always look a lot more complicated than they are. Two different doughs, in an alternating pattern. This one is half white / spelt, half malted. #bread #baking #photography

Greetings from sunny Kirklington, on a sunny autumn day. I've no idea what this crop is, but there appears to be lots of it. Still loving how this camera makes all colours really loud. It is not subtle. Nikon D80, wide end of a cheap lens. F/11. ISO 200. 1/200s. #photography

Continuing the theme of fence posts as tripods, have some night time photography. The streaks of light are planes from East Midlands Airport, rather than shooting stars, but we can always pretend eh, folks? Canon 7D, 24mm F/2.8 lens, ISO1600, 15s exposures. #photography #starscapes

Afterglow of the sunset using a four second exposure. Camera balanced on a fence post. Again, anything can be a tripod if you try hard enough. D80, wide end of a cheap lens. F/5.6, ISO400. #photography

Inspired by the spooky season, I give you Southwell Minster framed between two gravestones. Nikon D80, wide end of a cheap lens. #photography

Some autumn sunshine in the Southwell Minster gardens. Nikon D80 again, cheap zoom lens at F/8, mostly. #photography

Thanks for all the love for these images overnight, folks. I enjoy that my oldest camera bodies take the photos that get the most affection on here. Nikon launched the D80 in 2006. It is older than my kids. I enjoy using these clunky boxes to capture the moments. Here is another. #photography

Final sky of the day. Long exposure, clouds after sunset. Two images pasted together, because one was all sky, while and the other was all foreground. D40x, 35mm F/1.8. ISO 800. 10s exposure #photography

Some other nice skies tonight. Took my Nikon D80 for a spin. 10 megapixel CCD sensor, made in marginally simpler times. Cheap lens. #photography

I like the reflections in the millpond. I can't decide which I like more - the whole scene, above and below, or the reflection only, flipped. I think that the latter always looks like an oil painting. Nikon D80, wide end of a cheap lens. #photograpy

I'm settling into the colder weather by making seasonal soups and bread. Start to finish, this whole meal took a half hour. Soda bread is such an easy win. They are like giant savoury scones. #photography #food #foodphotography

There is a moment at this time of year when the word ‘apricity’ really comes into view. For those who don’t know it, it was recorded only once, in 1623, before slipping out of view. Apricity is the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.

#CelebrityTraitors is hilarious. They would have had a better hit rate by rolling a couple of dice or flipping some coins. If they were trying to eliminate the faithful as quickly as possible, they couldn't do it this well! Brilliant.

Haven't played guitar for a while, so I thought I'd start small. This is a "guitalele", which I bought a few years ago for about the price of a pack of bass strings. It is ukelele sized, but has six strings and is tuned like a guitar with a capo on the fifth fret, A - A.

You know what we haven't had for a while? One of those book club ponzi schemes. You know, the ones where the premise is that you post some books, and end up with more books, and intelligent people fall for the idea that books multiple from nothing and that it couldn't possibly be a ponzi scheme?

Cake and a fire. Much needed on a day like today. Nikon D40x, 35mm lens. #autumn #fall #photography #cake #photographycake #cakecake

News from the Louvre. Some symbols have been found written in UV paint. A dashing professor of a subject that may or may not exist has been called in to help. He may or may not be a suspect. A very blonde Paul Bettany is inexplicably wearing a robe. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Colours of autumn, on a cloudy day. I think a chestnut coloured sausage dog definitely counts as autumnal.

Aesthetically pleasing rainbow pepper. Taken with a Nikon D40x, from 2007. Some folks think the colours from CCD sensors like this are more interesting than modern CMOS sensors. I think that might be balls. It is certainly a colourful pepper. #photography

The making of a pear and almond cake. The tolerant obstetrician is very talented, and she was indeed very tolerant while I photographed her baking. Nikon D40x and 35mm F/1.8 lens. #photography #cake

Good Morning.