Tuesday, 5 August, 2025

Beauty and Fragility. Large format landscape photography

Looking at the whole and bigger picture, the issue seems to stem from the limitations of the modern computer, a common consumer grade computer is limited to 64 bit parity with a non paging memory access range of 2^64 – 1, but which is limited quite severely by sizes of modern volatile memory, so the limit of volatile memory when accessing solid state memory isn’t practical enough to comfortably work on the kinds of file sizes the higher quality film routinely addresses. We estimate that digital would need to routinely use sensor sizes at least 20 times the current availability to begin to have some parity in quality terms, making digital very difficult to use in any practical form.

In addition the archival permanence of film versus digital has never had any parity, even 30 years after the first introduction of consumer grade digital camera technology the issue of archival permanence of digital has no coherent placement, and has barely moved even a single inch toward a usable state since its foundation.

There is no argument here, film is superior to digital.

Sunday, 3 August, 2025

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

Having used digital technology for about 20 years now I can say that digital hasn’t attained the quality specifications I consider are the minimum required for high quality work.

We appreciate the environmental considerations, such as they are online, but aren’t convinced the digital ‘revolution’ has delivered on its promises.

So here we are, at the quality end of the spectrum.

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Saturday, 2 August, 2025

“It's a pretty low bar to ask public servants to not be a f—ing Nazi”

Friday, 1 August, 2025

Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God.

Sunday, 27 July, 2025

Two Summers?

Must be Two Worlds, again...

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Saturday, 26 July, 2025

18:32pm July 26th 2025, Mark and Observe.

Saturday, 19 July, 2025

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

Welcome to the Largest Peace-Keeping Operation in the World.

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Wednesday, 16 July, 2025

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan – the war there is long over and the end result there was the sum of all the efforts of those involved, and Peace is the end result. Peace – knows a lot more about all of these things than ‘the media’ do, but unlike ‘the media’ the Peace is sensible, and not driven  […]

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