Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley
The Way We See It is a fairly new site which gives a challenge every week – to go out and photograph a nominated London location. I haven’t been able to try it out myself yet as all the locations are in central London, but it looks like fun. Comparing Read more …
2005 has seen a prolific number of titan arums flower around the world. The latest appears to be in Washington, and has attracted a fair bit of media attention. Currently (24 November) Google News is listing over 200 pages covering this, ranging from ABC News through to the DCist blog Read more …
The very last of the Autumn leaves – this one is Liquidambar styraciflua, sweet gum You can find more images of leaves in the Autumn gallery and the leaves gallery
I signed up with Scoopt the other day. It’s capitalising on the trend towards the media searching for eyewitness photos and videos, something only possible now that camera phones are so ubquitous. The way it works is that you take a good newsworthy shot and they, supposedly with their expertise Read more …
/etcetera/signs/051121046.jpgAnd I thought you usually used a chainsaw if you wanted to cut a tree down, not a big triangular-shaped shovel… More signs>>>
It seems my web host has made changes to the way the server is set up to make it more secure, but this has completely broken my image gallery software (Gallery2). I’ll be looking at it further this evening in the hope that it won’t be too difficult to get Read more …