Perseids 2010

So another year of the Perseids approaches an end, and another fine display. It was my second annual trip to the Norman Lockyer Observatory near Sidmouth was once again fascinating. Interesting talks, a brilliant planetarium display, and the opportunity to look through telescopes at various night sky landmarks and talk to amateurs and experts about all things astronomy.

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Inspiration, aims, anything else?

Looking through the apparently random choice of photos that iPhoto appears to have put into my iPhone albums, I decided to post a close-up image of some flowers that I took some time ago to Twitter. In turn, this inspired me to write a bit about photography and my aims and inspiration.

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Welcome to my blog…

Well here it is, my new blog. I’ve been contemplating blogging for quite some time (years, in fact), but could never quite warrant clogging the Internet up further with more useless ramblings (I’m not by any means saying that blogs are useless, I’ve read many brilliant ones). I am perhaps creating this more as a reminder to me about things I have come across in work or travel. This blog will probably fall into that ever increasing category of blogs that are updated perhaps a maximum of once a month, but hey, let’s see how it goes.