Cat Photo! Yesterday I was teaching my Photography I class and explained that cat photos are the most derided form of photography. So obviously I had to show them a cat photo of my own. This is my little guy Fenway, photographed with the classic Pentax 50mm f/1.4 (wide open). #photography #cats

Boloco Bikers I have no idea what "Boloco" is. Probably a race sponsor. This shot is from the Mayor's Cup Criterion in downtown Boston. #photography #bicycle #racing #criterion

Boston Newspaper Vendor at the Marathon From way beck in 2002 (shooting film), this in Boston Common around 6:30 on the morning of the Boston Marathon. Love the vibe of the newspaper vendor! #photography #Boston #Marathon #newspaper

Beacon Tarn On the Cumbria Way in the Lake District. A "tarn" is a pond or small lake left over from a glacier. A good word to know, in my humble opinion. (This is a 6-image panorama.) #photography #landscape #BeaconTarn #Cumbria

Willow Creek, Colorado On the Willowbrook Trail near Silverthorne, Colorado. Yet another long-exposure whitewater shot. But they're fun to do! #photography #Colorado #Willowbrook #Silverthorne #streams #whitewater

Chicago Millennium Park 5-image panorama from One of my favorite American cities. #photography #Chicago #panorama #MilleniumPark

Stained Glass at Rochester Cathedral Another shot from my recent trip. This is a remarkable cathedral because, due to various episodes of damage and rebuilding over the centuries, it incorporates several styles of architecture. And does it well. #photography #Rochester #cathedral #StainedGlass

Cheering Section This is from the 2001 Boston Marathon. I thought this kid and his dad exemplified the kind of enthusiasm this event generates in Boston. (At least when the weather's fine!) #photography #sports #Boston #marathon

Rocks and Sky A non-quite-abstract shot from Julian Price Lake in North Carolina (it's right on the Blue Ridge Parkway). #photography #nature #BlueRidge #NorthCarolina #JulianPricePark

Rochester Cathedral — phone wallpaper From the second-oldest cathedral in England. #photography #travel #cathedral #Rochester #Wallpaper

Vintage Palace From 2001, a photo of the Palace Theatre in London. Probably shot on some flavour of Ektachrome 100. (From the looks of it I'm standing just outside the fictitious "circus" headquarters of MI6 in the TV series of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy".) #photography #London #PalaceTheatre

Morgan From my "Auto Parts" series, this Morgan sports car was photographed at the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix in Schenley park. #photography #cars #Morgan #automobiles #Pittsburgh #PittsburghVintageGrandPrix

Scooter in Soho I just got back from London and have a whole new batch of photos to upload. Here's the first one, a beautiful red Vespa scooter at the corner or Berwick Street and Noel Street. #photography #London #Soho #scooter #Vespa #street

Stone and Wisteria Another photo from Oxford. This is in Balliol College from many years ago. Shot using slide film on a Pentax MX with the classic 50mm f/1.4 lens. #photography #Oxford #BalliolCollege #wisteria #Pentax

Radcliffe Camera, Oxford Yes, one of Oxford's most famous buildings. I tried to do something a little atypical for this icon by getting in really close and using a short telephoto lens. The early evening light helped, too. #photography #architecture #Oxford #RadcliffeCamera

Devon Coastline This is on the Southwest Coast Path a mile or so southeast of Bigbury-on-Sea. It's a 4-image panorama that was quite tricky to get right. #photography #seascape #Devon #UK #panorama #BigburyOnSea

Children of Lir, Ballycastle A sculpture showing the "Children of Lir", an old Irish legend (related to the story of King Lear, btw) on the sea front in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland. I positioned myself to get the moon in a good position. #photography #Ballycastle #ChildrenOfLir #sculpture

Maceley Cove, Devon This is a 7-image multiple exposure shot of a cave in Maceley Cove in the East Prawle region of Devon. Taken while walking the Plymouth to Brixham section of the Southwest Coast Path. #photography #seascape #MultipleExposure #Devon #England

Northumberland Oak A bare oak tree against the winter sky in Northumberland. #photography #oak #tree #Northumberland

On the Appalachian Trail A foggy day in Virginia on a section of the trail near Mt. Rogers. #photography #landscape #Virginia #AppalachianTrail

St. Paul's Cathedral, London It's really difficult to get a shot of St. Paul's without construction cranes in the background these days... #photography #London #cathedral #StPauls

Another Reflection of Chenonceau This beautiful chateau, built over the river Cher, is one of my favourites. Another shot in which I photographed the reflection in water rather than the chateau directly (because the sky was gray and ugly). #photography #chateau #Chenonceau #reflection #LoireValley

Venus Rising I'm pretty sure this is Venus, less sure about whether it's rising or setting. But this is one of my dawn photos from the Dolly Soda Wilderness in West Virginia. #photography #landscape #dawn #sunrise #Venus #DollySods #WestVirginia

Mechelin Cathedral, Belgium From a bicycle trip through Belgium in 2024. Mechelin was one of several cities we passed through that made me think "why haven't I heard about this place before?" Wonderful city. #photography #Mechelin #cathedral #Belgium

Peabody River, White Mountains From a hike into the mountains of New Hampshire one spring a few years ago. #photography #NewHampshire #river #whitewater

Blue Part of my "Auto Parts" series, this is rain drops on a car, shot from fairly close up so you can't really tell what part of the car it is. #photography #rain #car #abstract

I'm going to London soon and found a list on The Londonist of their top 100 pubs. Many will disagree with some, but it's surely a better bet than TripAdvisor, if a bit awkward to use on the go. So I put it in a spreadsheet, sorted it 3 ways and put it on the web. www.robertstech.com/travel/pubs....

Moon Over Prague Taken at the end of a week-long bicycle trip from Salzburg to Prague. This is actually in the courtyard of our hotel. #photography #travel #Prague #Czech

Wildflower Meadow, Upstate NY This is somewhere near Fairport, NY, if I recall correctly. An old slide film shot from my archives. #photography #landscape #wildflowers #NewYorkState

Fungus! One of the mushrooms I've found while hiking. This one was on Bluff Mountain, North Carolina. #photography #mushroom #fungus #BluffMountain #NorthCarolina

Cragway Trail Probably my favorite trail on Grandfather Mountain. Very steep but short. The higher you go the better the view gets. #photography #landscape #BlueRidge #GrandfatherMountain

Mushrooms and Moss Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina. One of the first photographs I ever shot with a digital camera, way back in 2003. Only 6 megapixels (standard for the time) but still makes great large prints. #photography #mushrooms #fungi #BlueRidge #NorthCarolina

Fall Fungus Taken along the trail around Salem Lake I Winston-Salem, North Carolina. #photography, #fungus #fall

Gloucester Road Stairs The spiral staircase at Gloucester Road tube station. #photography #monochrome #London #underground #tube

Fireplug, West Jefferson This small town (with a nice microbrewery) in North Carolina has some interesting painted fire hydrants. #photography #HDR #WestJefferson #NorthCarolina #FireHydrant

Hey Big Saver! Street scene near Shepherd's Bush, London. I love the random stuff that appears in various parts of the background in HDR photography (which I almost never use for extended dynamic range). #photography #London #ShepherdsBush #HDR

King's College Chapel One of the best known landmarks of Cambridge. #photography #Cambridge #KingsCollege #chapel #notCathedrals

Brutalist Gothic Liverpool Cathedral, despite its lack of concrete, always seems to me vaguely brutalist, at least from inside. From the outside is resembles how I imagined the prison of Azkaban from Harry Potter. An odd combination. #cathedral #Liverpool #photography #HDR

Subsurface Phone Check The Circle Line platform at Paddington Station. You can often find really great light here and get some terrific "street" shots. This is one of my favourites. #photography #street #Paddington #underground

Sky Space Sculpture, Salzburg This is a sculpture in Salzburg, Austria, photographed from the inside (where it's supposed to be viewed). Pretty nice minimalist result, I think. #photography #Salzburg #minimalism

Grandfather Mountain Phone Wallpaper This is one of the bluffs on Grandfather Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. Home to the annual Grandfather Mountain Nature Photography Weekend (see www.grandfather.com). #photography #landscape #BlueRidge #GrandfatherMountain

Yorkshire Dales Part of the Pennine Way in Yorkshire somewhere near Thornton-in-Craven. #photography #landscape #Yorkshire #PennineWay #FingerpostFriday

Paddington Taxi Rank This is the back access to Paddington, along the canal. Triple-exposure HDR (improvising one of the bollards as a make-shift tripod). #photography #London #Paddington #HDR #bollard #taxi

Kingswear and the River Dart View from Dartmouth on the River Dart with the town of Kingswear opposite. The quay on the far left is where the Mayflower set sail for America in 1620 (before hitting s storm and having to dock at Plymouth for repairs). #photography #Devon #Kingswear #Dartmouth

The Chute from Attic Window A peak on Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, which is reached by a steep scramble up this rock chute (shown from the top, looking down). Best avoided in stormy conditions like this, but I was camped overnight and had no choice. #photography #mountain #BlueRidge #NC

Unusual Book Categories Actually, any time I do cooking I think it qualifies as "Humour Cooking". Perhaps I ought to try Gardening Sport? Skoob Books, London.

Fungus Close-Up Some Sulphur Shelf Fungus in North Carolina. In Julian Price Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway. #photography #fungus #BlueRidge #NorthCarolina

My Favourite Walking Path This is just a few miles north of Malham in the mid section of the trail. I find I like the Pennine Way increasingly more the farther north I go. #photography #PennineWay #FingerpostFriday #landscape

Trains To All Parts of London The original Gloucester Road station in a 3-exposure HDR. I love all the activity going on in various parts of this shot. One of my favourite tube stations. #photography #London #tube #underground #rail #GloucesterRoad #HDR

Moon Over the Canadian Rockies This is in either Banff National Park or Yoho National Park in Canada. (Oh, how I wish I'd had a GPS-equipped camera when I took this.) #photography #landscape #moon #mountains #rockies