Wednesday, 20 August, 2025
You may call this Internationalism, because we do.
Wednesday, 20 August, 2025.
We feel that, generally speaking, the International Community are moving in the right direction and are communicating the correct strategy, obviously there are problems, but these are mostly originating from various media companies and corporations which are obviously struggling to communicate at the moment, however, the World is not operated by or operating to a media strategy. We don't, generally speaking, take too much notice of media houses because the wider world is far too complex to be represented within that model of information management.
In the United States the U.S. Government is readily accepting of the idea that Ukraine is not their war, but even so, are still working towards the Peace and are obviously keen to achieve as much as they can achieve in that regard. We continue to encourage the people and Government of the United States to follow this path, because it is in the interest of the people and Government of the United States to do so.
The Russian Federation are in a difficult situation but still, are also communicating that they are open to talks regarding a comprehensive Peace deal, and no doubt will accommodate the best of the U.S. position, and we are confident that if that position is based on reason, then any end result will be reasonable. We see nothing in the position of the Russian Federation that indicates to us that the Russian Government is an unreasonable actor.
The European Union are doing whatever they can to try to recognise the Ukrainian position, given that the Ukrainian position places future membership of the European Union in an elevated position, the Verkhovna Rada clearly illustrates this European perspective, if one cares to look of course. And we are sure the European Union will operate according to its membership and those who exist around and outside the European Union, after all, the European Union knows more about the concept of a trans-national war than perhaps any other, certainly their history illustrates this.
Our erstwhile friends in the Islamic Emirate are doing incredibly well and are a source of great pride given the magnificent way they have leapt from their previous circumstances into a fully fledged peaceful state, and are clearly in a great position going ahead.
Our natural friends in the People’s Republic of China are always a source of Great interest to the Peace, and we always take a lot of interest in the things they are talking about.
We wish the British Labour party and the people and Government of the United Kingdom great success in their policy enactments, and know that the party is, equally, in a great position going forward.
The Holy Land, I am sure, will find some way to communicate with the rest of the World, in a way that is religiously tolerant, accommodating to all the ethnicities in their area and defined by something other than militarism and the false ideal of perpetual existential dread, after all, that is not how the World actually works. A successful polity here in the Holy Land is in the interests of the people there, and we wish them great success in being able to transcend their situation.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is a nation state that, despite how it is often presented by others, is a source of great stability in the wider region, and has a tremendous amount to contribute to the wider world providing it is left to be free to do so, the fact it has a clerical government is a matter only for the people of Iran, and of course the wider Islamic World.
In the East of Ukraine, we are more concerned with what comes next, how that benefits the people and, essentially, how the prospect of safety in their daily lives will actually manifest on the World stage, they have a right to live without war, as all nations do.
These are just some of the nations and states we are looking at right now, there are, of course, many more. And looking at the wider World in all its manifestations, we see a complex and endlessly fascinating array of views, which is a source of Great comfort to us.
The World is, first, in any and all relationships...there is no other way.
Monday, 18 August, 2025
New Windows Going In...TB
Monday, 18 August, 2025.

Mariupol.
These wars kill people obviously, and certainly that is a tragedy. But second to this, these wars cause property damage, buildings, infrastructure, service structures and just about anywhere that people huddle together, property is damaged or destroyed.
Now imagine you have to, after your building has been severely damaged, call a few trades-people to come in and repair that damage.
How much will it cost? How long will it take for the repairs to be done? Can you get the materials? Will the insurance actually cover the cost? Are there any insurers left? When will the work be finished?
Now take that situation, and stretch it out to pretty much 1 in 10 buildings in every village and town across an area of about 450 miles.
You might not think that’s a big deal.
The people that have to repair all of this and plan for this, do think its a big deal.
And they are the people that are, right now, working on this issue.
They’ll figure it out, because that is what they are paid to do.
And when they have figured it all out, others will figure it out too.
Saturday, 16 August, 2025
Whenever You Are Ready.
Saturday, 16 August, 2025.

The State of Ukraine is currently subdivided into two contiguous regions, on the left-hand side Ukraine proper, representing two thirds of the current territory, which is currently under Martial Law, and to the right-hand side Ukraine currently under Russian Federation Administration. The area under Russian Federation Administration has been under special circumstances for over 3 years. For the area defined as Krim, aka as Crimea, these special circumstances have existed since 2014.
For the public of both area's this means that basic life does not exist in the same way it ordinarily does for other countries and populations. On the left, Martial Law is disruptive to the whole populace, routine activities like working, leisure, travel, healthcare, local government, law enforcement, agriculture, emergency services, civil society and, well, just about everything, does not operate in the way it ordinarily should. For many, these ordinary and basic services do not operate at all. Everything, from taking your children to school, to attending a hospital appointment, to traveling to see family, friends and even taking a vacation, is riddled with complications and unsafe experiences by those whom are attending, only, to the duty of enforcement of Martial Law.
The same is true of those areas under Russian Federation Administrative control. But the issue is slightly worse, because the ordinary things you take for granted are complicated by the intermixing of systems which are running next to each other, and evolving together, under the civil structure of a government that may not be, itself, using the same systems that were in place before the newly arriving administration appeared. You may say ‘administration’ only means ‘government’, which is naive.
For this land area that is currently home to over 32 million people, your ‘War’ has a limited lifespan, the duties and responsibilities of those whom work in these regions in every sector of society, and whom are providing essential services to the populace, will require a level of support that will need to be provided as competent essential services without any fuss, argument or political drama, and will need to be entirely free of unusual circumstance. Circumstances will need to be normal, useful, and cross-referenced with other known international systems. That does not happen if the state is preoccupied with some other unnecessary activity.
You do not need to listen too much to the public figures that appear in public to explain all of this, because they almost never do actually explain any of this. You need to listen to the people whom work within these areas and whom work tirelessly in direct proximity to the populace.
What we are saying is, you have a limited amount of time available to you.
Keep this in mind, and do not forget it.
Friday, 15 August, 2025
Putin, Trump Begin talks, courtesy of the Russian News Agency, and the Wider Public.
Friday, 15 August, 2025.

We are pleased to see the leaders of the United States and Russian Federation meeting together to find a way to navigate through the difficulties and the issues that currently exist in Ukraine, and know that the World is taking a careful interest, we hope the civil service in Ukraine and all members of the Verkhovna Rada will also carefully consider their options in light of what is a globally recognisable investment in the Peace.
Opportunities like this are rare of course, in any peaceful venture a degree of opportunism exists and equally rarely, of course, one might consider exploiting this opportunity because to do so is responsible and expected; as opposed to exploitation in and of warfare, which the public surely do not consider equally as legitimate.
These are the good days, and one must always be conscious of our good days, because they are your good days too.
Tuesday, 12 August, 2025
Forward or Backwards, it is Naught to me either way.
Tuesday, 12 August, 2025.
Do please understand, that I am not given to hatred. I could not exist under any such oppression, self made or otherwise.
Tuesday, 5 August, 2025
Beauty and Fragility. Large format landscape photography
Tuesday, 5 August, 2025.
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.
Sunday, 3 August, 2025.
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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