How was 2025? Challenging but I'm still going. #photography blog.petecarr.net/how-was-2025/

On Hello Computer newsletter this week: "Where did 2025 take me? A few highlights from the year." Read and sign up: https://pete.news/hellocomputer/2025-done/ #HelloComputer #YearlyReview

How was 2025? Challenging but I'm still going. #photography blog.petecarr.net/how-was-2025/

This morning, we published a beautiful piece by David Lloyd about the loss of his mother, and how local radio soundtracked their relationship. It’s deeply moving and an essential read 💛 www.livpost.co.uk/losing-local...

Thread 1/ Recently at a Q&A, the chair asked me an excellent question: Why do you push so hard against the idea of a ‘nature cure’ when moments in your book Drystone - A Life Rebuilt might look like exactly that? The answer is simple. #Reading #Writing #NatureWriting #Nature #Scotland #Books

Is anyone else using The Printspace for their print store backend? It’s… a lot. Just want to add a few new prints, and I think its a few days work to do. Should be easier. #Photographers

We have a bloody brilliant lineup of speakers for Ignite Birkenhead. If you’ve never been before. Ignite is really friendly, full of lovely people to chat to. It’s fast, fun, and always full of surprises.

My #YearlyTheme for 2025 is to "keep pushing", which I wrote about here: pete.news/hellocompute... I'm thinking that 2026's will be 🫠

From Lives We Cannot Live - Oxo Tower Gallery from 24th Sept. Some people were so ill I could only take a few frames before it became too much for them & I had to leave. #SevereME is devastating. #LivesWeCannotLive #documentaryphotography #pwme #mecfs #fujigfx

How do you stay a working photographer with #MECFS? Heavy camera in one hand, walking stick in other and overloaded bag of gear and water on your back. Last night was exhausting. Today OK. Tomorrow I will crash, just before the next job. Visible said it cost me 20 #PacePoints. Need money though. 😬

Content warning:Nudity --------------------------------------------------------------- The North East Skinny Dip. At 7am over 1,200 people throw off their clothes and run naked into the North Sea. A freeing experience helping raise money for the charity MIND. #Photography #NESD #SkinnyDip #BodyPos

The North East Skinny Dip. At 7am over 1,200 people throw off their clothes and run naked into the North Sea. A freeing experience helping raise money for the charity MIND. #Photography #NESD #SkinnyDip #BodyPositivity

After writing this piece I've ordered the #Visible band to try out for a few months. It's at least some data to take with me to the #MECFS clinic in Feb.

On Hello Computer newsletter this week: "How am I doing after 18 months of Long Covid or ME/CFS?" Read and sign up: pete.news/hellocompute... #HelloComputer #MECFS

Still waiting for a #MECFS diagnosis. Exhausted. No idea if it’s because of CFS or lack of fitness from resting due to dangers of over exertion from possible CFS. Either way, exhausted. Miss swimming, running and cycling. 😮‍💨

On Hello Computer newsletter this week: "A few thoughts on Alan Turing's legacy and where we are today with computing and AI." Read and sign up: https://pete.news/hellocomputer/alan-turing-man-and-ai/#39 #HelloComputer #Autism #LGBTQ+

On Hello Computer newsletter this week: "A few thoughts on Alan Turing's legacy and where we are today with computing and AI." Read and sign up: https://pete.news/hellocomputer/alan-turing-man-and-ai/#39 #HelloComputer #Autism #LGBTQ+

"Dolgarrog" - Little wander around Dolgarrog. Looking forward to the day I can do big hikes again so I can explore places like this. #Photography #Dolgarrog #FujiXT1 #NorthWales #Landscapes

It has been one year since I started sharing more openly about my life with severe ME/CFS. I chose to do it through my photography, resulting in my ongoing series ‘Enduring: Life with Severe ME/CFS’. 1/10 #MECFS #pwME #Photography #SelfDocumentary

#Zanzibar gig back in 2006. Can't remember who unfortunately but it's a place I enjoyed learning how to photograph gigs 20 years ago. Shame to see its closing.

On Hello Computer newsletter this week: "I got naked in front of nearly 1294 people and ran into the North Sea. How was it?" Read and sign up: pete.news/hellocompute... #HelloComputer #SkinnyDipping #NESD #MentalHealth

North East Skinny Dip 2025 - Over 1,200 people, me included, stripped off and ran into the North Sea to raise money for Mind, the mental health charity. #photography #fuji_xt1 #nesd #nudity #skinny_dipping

On Hello Computer newsletter this week: "I got naked in front of nearly 1294 people and ran into the North Sea. How was it?" Read and sign up: https://pete.news/hellocomputer/doing-the-north-east-skinny-dip/ #HelloComputer #SkinnyDipping #NESD #Nudity

Our new book, TO BUILD A HOME by Amanda Jackson, is now available to pre-order! 🔥 The work is a long-term study of the people of the Lammas Tir Y Gafel eco village & surrounding community in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Limited edition, bag one here - anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/product/to-b...

Instagram generally panics when another app “steals” their audience. If that app is AI slop generator Sora, how will Instagram respond? AI slop generator called UnReels? How I wish Flickr had pivoted to mobile and kept our attention.

We’re super excited to be working with photographer Amanda Jackson to publish her body of work ’To Build A Home’ as a small photobook. The work is a long-term study of the people of the Lammas Tir Y Gafel eco village & surrounding community in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Pre-orders very soon folks! 👀🔥

Wonderful weekend at @orielcolwyn.bsky.social for Northern Eye festival. Lovely to get to know Peter Caton & his long term work in South Sudan, and Kyle McDougall. My highlight though was the talk and work of Margaret Mitchel, including An Ordinary Eden. margaretmitchell.co.uk/an-ordinary-...

This weeks #HelloComputer is delayed due to commercial work taking priority. Sorry folks. It's become quite the busy week. I've written nearly 3,000 words on taking part in a mass skinny dip event. It's quite the piece. Should be out for Sunday. Curious? pete.news to sign up.

I've put a few thoughts on my blog about the whole weekend; petecarr.net/blog/norther... Thanks @orielcolwyn.bsky.social 💜

Northern Eye 2025 Notes - Thoughts on Northern Eye 25. I gave a talk, saw lots of work and listened to inspiring photographers. #photography #colwynbay #northerneye #talk

Thoughts before I left to do the #NorthEastSkinnyDip aka #NESD on this weeks newsletter. pete.news/hellocomputer/dippi... Sign up to find out how it went. #SkinnyDip

I'm giving a short talk at @orielcolwyn.bsky.social on Saturday on my #neuroqueer swimming project. Get a ticket and come along. The lineup is exceptional. Parr. Carr. Others. #photography #autism #ColdWaterDipping #OpenWaterSwimming

On Hello Computer newsletter this week: "Birthday weekend plans: running into the sea in my birthday suit for charity (and conquering some fears along the way)" Read and sign up: https://pete.news/hellocomputer/dipping-in-my-birthday-suit/ #HelloComputer #SkinnyDipping #Anxiety

QM2 in Liverpool from a drone - The Cunard's QM2 docked against the Liverpool skyline as the sun comes up. I used to need a helicopter for this work, now a tiny drone can do it. #photography #cunard #drone #liverpool #qm2 #sunrise

QM2 in Liverpool with fireworks - Titanium Fireworks lit up the skyline of Liverpool for Cunard's 185th birthday celebration while the Queen Mary 2 cruise liner headed off on another adventure. #photography

Queen Mary 2’s first Liverpool visit - Cruise liner Queen Mary 2's first visit to Liverpool in 2009 was epic. I photographed the event from a helicopter. #photography

I've spent months trying to make my Wordpress site work without moving up to a 2x more expensive hosting plan. Nothing I've done has worked. In a way, a local WP CMS that built an #11ty site might be a good option. Making more money would be another...

Lovely start to autumn. Low tide and the Mersey Pilot boat is just heading out. #Photography #Drone

"Autumn equinox" - A little wander this morning. I overslept so missed the usual dip but the walk still did me good. #Photography #Equinox #IPhone16Pro #NewBrighton #VisualDiary

On Hello Computer newsletter this week: "Meta’s new Ray-Ban glasses promise real-world subtitles, but I’ll believe it when deaf users say it works." Read and sign up: https://pete.news/hellocomputer/meta-display-glasses-for-the-deaf/ #HelloComputer #Accessibility #Deaf

Meta glasses are an interesting idea from an absolutely awful company. It's a shame they've made a useful #deaf accessability tool. I look forward to the day I can afford and buy glasses that have live captioning built in so I can have a conversation with friends and understand what's going on.

"September swim" - First dip this month. Fresh but not cold. Epic waves. Good fun. Looking forward to the dawn mornings later in the year. Going to be ace. Do wish I had a decent waterproof case for my camera. Currently using luck. They’re so expensive, but you get fascinating photos. These are iP

I thought I might be getting over #LongCovid / #CFSME, but as autumn has hit my fingers have shrivelled up like I've been in the bath for an hour. It's mid-Sept and I need to wear gloves in my studio. Yay?

On Hello Computer newsletter this week: "Water always finds its own level. So do we. My reflections on the Bodies of Water symposium, art, and being neuroqueer." Read and sign up: https://pete.news/hellocomput... https://pete.news/hellocomputer/bodies-of-water-art-environment-and-neurodivergence/

Writing tomorrows pete.news about neuroqueerness while listening to the rain, my cat snoring and Einaudi on the boombox.

Art class From the latest Private Eye, out now.

On Hello Computer newsletter this week: "I took the iPhone's Live Caption feature for a test in a cafe. It was interesting." Read and sign up: https://pete.news/hellocomputer/iphone-live-captions-reviewed-does-it-work-in-noisy-places/#39 #HelloComputer #accessibility #Deaf #ios

On Hello Computer newsletter this week: "I took the iPhone's Live Caption feature for a test in a cafe. It was interesting." Read and sign up: https://pete.news/hellocomputer/iphone-live-captions-reviewed-does-it-work-in-noisy-places/#39 #HelloComputer #accessibility #Deaf #ios

Instagram finally launched an iPad app. Reels is the primary timeline which suggests, that after 15 years, the only reel reason to reely make an iPad app was to get more people watching Reels. It hasn't been a photography app for years, but we all keep using it because what can you reely do?

there's a total lunar eclipse this weekend! www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...