Street lights. #photography 700D, kit lens

I have a theory, and I'd like someone to tell me why I'm wrong. All body wash is a scam. They each contain a surfactant, which is the bit that degreases you. They then contain a thickener, something that smells nice and something to give them an appealing colour. You could wash in fairy liquid.

A friend at the British Orthopaedic Associaton asked me to share this. BOA are keen to support SAS and LE doctors progressing their careers via the portfolio pathway, or gathering evidence for a Specialist application. They have created some tools for these things: www.boa.ac.uk/careers-in-t...

Fascinating data. There are three things here that really matter to people, and they think matter to everyone: Healthcare Economy Prices There is ONE thing that they assume matters to everyone, because it dominates so much of the narrative, but it is NOT affecting them personally: Immigration

I like cameras. I like them as objects, as well as pointing them at stuff. For anyone with £100, I highly recommend a used Canon 40D. Each of these was taken with a 40D and a cheap lens. There are more expensive cameras out there, but this is all the camera I need most of the time. #photography

Yarn bombs in Southwell. I love this town. R8, adapted 35-70 F4 FD lens. #photography

Bird between the Minster towers. Rubbish light tonight. Sony A5000, adapted Canon 35mm FD lens. #photography

"If I was a writer, I'd write my opinions, and save them for later, just to see how wrong I could be." Human Error, We Were Promised jetpacks.

I kid you not, I have now been locked out of eLearning for Health for a second time today. The security hurdles required to access mandatory transfusion training should NOT be harder to overcome than online banking. I am increasingly annoyed.

Trying to catch up on mandatory training, as part of my return to work. Apparently eLearning for Health can't reset my log in, because there is no account registered with my email address. Simultaneously, I can't register, because there is already an account registered with these details. What?

"If you wait, I'll give all my aches to you."

Speckled wood butterfly in Shelf Woods, Halifax. #ThePhotoHour #butterflies #wildlife #nature #photography @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

I was a bit late with my walk tonight. It was dark. I love old cameras, but if you had told me a few years ago that a combination of modern image stabilisation and high ISO performance would let me take hand held photos of stars, I'd not have believed you. R7, cheap F/2.8 lens. #photography

After some time away after my dad died, I'm back at work this week. I'd be kidding myself if I said I wasn't a bit scared. Daft, perhaps. I'm starting with some meetings, and ploughing through a few hundred emails. Wish me luck, folks.

Comma butterfly hides on a fading raspberry leaf. I don't think I'll take a better image for the end of summer and the onset of autumn. 50D, long end of a cheap superzoom lens. #photography

Got to hand it to the Greens. Rhetoric like this is pretty refreshing in an era of "it's too difficult to fix" and "it's all immigration's fault", which is what we seem to be getting from everyone else. Politics with a little bit of positive hope is quite nice to see while I doomscroll.

Southwell Minster, before and after the sun set. I walked about for a bit, tying to get some steps in. The difference a half hour makes is incredible. The light completely changes before the puddles dry. Savour the moment, folks. They don't last. R7, wide end of a cheap Sigma lens. #photography

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

Very short-lived blue sky, then I got rained on again. This weather is annoying. R8, ancient FD Cosina wide angle lens. I am enjoying the range of cheap ancient lenses I am mounting on this camera. #photography

Anyone still hedging their bets and maintaining a presence on X should really consider how comfortable they are driving traffic to Musk. Elon Musk gave a talk to the rally yesterday, called for dissolution of the UK government, and saying "violence is coming". You're increasing his ad revenue.

Today is the opposite of yesterday. Catastrophic weather gave rise to a beautiful day by the time the sun sets. I do enjoy a fluffy cloud, and a sun star. Canon R7, cheap standard zoom lens. F/16. #photography

Hey, New Folks and welcome! I know the recent… happenings brought you here, but i promise it’s not always like this. I prefer to focus on pediatric wellness, music, and how good I look.

It is a bit crap at the moment, undeniably. It has been a bit crap for a while. However, if someone tells you that the crapness is the fault of another group in society, they are probably selling you something. Politicians do this for power. Media outlets do this for revenue. Don't be a fool.

Bunny looks concerned. R8, adapted 500mm F/8 mirror lens. Not too sharp. Interesting, flawed and cheap, much like the photographer. #photography

Minster as the sun sets. Shadows lifted a smidge. #photography R8, adapted FD lens.

It is brilliant to see our allies and friends at the HCSA joining us on Blue Sky. We like it here, and we hope they will find the same warm reception on this platform that we did. Give them a follow, and have a read of our recent shared blog. #SASsix

Here is another. Enjoy the view while it lasts, I guess, because storms are always coming. One way or another. #photography #scape

Hard to believe that fifteen minutes after this it rained hard enough we had to shelter under a tree. How British. R8, adapted 28mm FD lens. #photography #scape

Contemplating a quote that is probably misattirbuted to Voltaire. "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Long exposure #photography after sunset, on the beach in Italy. I asked my son if he would stay still for ten seconds to provide some contrast in the foreground. He is a good lad.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaraoke Take me home, country roads, John Denver

Clear night tonight. Taken with a 70-210 lens from 1980, onto a Canon R7, and cropped a bit. The lens is old. The moon is older. #photography

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Automated line: "In order to direct your enquiry appropriately, please use a few words explain the reason for your call". Me: "My dad died, and I need to close his account with you". This is bleak.

Remember to look up, folks. The sky is a different work of art every day. The world is beautiful. These are the two halves of the view on my walk across the fields tonight. #photography #scape #sky #skyscape R7, wide end of a cheap Sigma standard zoom.

It has just done it a SECOND bastard time while I was posting about the first time. That's it. I am going for a walk. I'm going to point a camera at something and calm myself down.

That scared the bejesus out of me. I'm already a bit on edge, folks. I don't need my phone interrupting my YouTube camera review to shout at me.

In these doffocult times, remember to look up. The sky is often pretty. #photography R8, adapted FD lens.

The sun sets on one side, and the moon rises on the other. #photography Canon R8, ancient manual focus lens.

Went for a short walk to clear my head. Manually focussing a lens makes #photography even more mindful. Pretty out there tonight too. Southwell / Kirklington. Canon R8 and adapted nFD 35 - 70 F/4 lens.

I have enjoyed adapting old lenses onto new cameras. It is satisfying getting beautiful photos out of old glass. Both the process and the outcome have character. Also, my wife is beautiful, and unendingly tolerant. #photography

Making a Spotify playlist for a funeral. Mixture of the happy and the sad, with a surprising amount of ukulele. Currently sobbing to the Katie Malco cover of Cloudbusting, by Kate Bush. What would be the song you would want playing at your funeral?

Had a week away from grieving, and away from funeral planning. To be honest, I suspect both travelled with me. The world is beautiful, if you make the effort to see it. My dad always knew that. Taken with an old Sony mirrorless camera from my mother's husband, and adapted lenses. #photography

End of a warm day, and the sky looked like it was on fire tonight. Sony A7ii, 35mm lens. #photography

Two images of the same sky. One is its reflection inverted in the mill pond. The other is the right way up, above the hedges on the walk back. I like the way the hedge foliage takes the place of the leaves floating on the pond, interrupting the sky. Goodnight folks. #photography

My mum's husband gave me a camera, and I have put a cheap lens on it, made from a recycled disposable camera lens. One person's trash is another's treasure. Optical flaws a plenty, but the lens looks like an oreo. I think my dad would have liked it. #photography

My mum's husband gave me an old camera to play with. He knows I like such things. Caught the exact moment of sunset on my walk tonight. I like the way the sky transitions from orange, to blue, to pink, to dark grey, with the sun at the centre of the wave. Sony A5000, cheap lens. #photography

Afterglow of the sun set. If you look carefully, you can see a plane in the middle going over. It looks like a rocket ship. 5D, nifty fifty. #photography

Dog walker on the beach in West Kirby, just after sun set. I like the colours of this one. 5D, nifty fifty. #photography

The sun is setting over Kirklington. After a few days on the Wirral, it is really good to be home with family. 5D, nifty fifty. #photography