Jonathan Vaines

I am at a talk by photographer Jonathan Vaines and I am furious. His work is everything I want my photography to be, but is unattainably tremendous! He’s clarified for me my own creative journey and simultaneously planted his flag right at the peak!

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Insulation

Actually, the thick snow all over the roof indicates either

a) we are well-insulated, or
b) there’s no fucking heat in the place to lose…

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Drone recovery!

I went out to try my DJI FPV drone in Manual Mode for the first time last week. Came out of a big loop and stuffed it into a wheat field. When I consulted the flight log, the last GPS point was the week before when I was flying in a different field.

So I walked all over the biggest wheat field in East Anglia…

I’d covered all of it, but my phone only decided I was exercising after two widths…

So I resigned myself to its loss. DJI wasn’t going to replace it, because “FlyAway” cover doesn’t include knowing where you crashed it. I bought a Mini 3 Pro. Then I thought, “Ooh! I can use this to search the field better….” and spent another two mornings looking at an awful lot of this:

God it was boring. Except when I found a fox. But had filled the memory card….

But what…?! DJI have found up-to-date flight logs in the cloud!

Yes… H is where I was sat and the blue arrow is where it crashed. A 25 metre walk.

So I went back, and flew over it in this pattern. Note the difference between this and the first picture.

And.. what’s this…?!

I’m fairly lucky not to have crashed it into my stupid head. And guess what… after a week and a half outside through at least two rain storms…?

It still works perfectly!

International International Day Day

Today is International International Day Day and we would like to extend our warmest thanks to the people who decide the International Days For Things for their continued support and professionalism on our journey to have international days for things every day.

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YouTube

Just deleted all of my videos from YouTube. It’s abhorrent for so many reasons. So that’s why probably over a hundred links on this website no longer work….🤨

BBC and Social Media

I am uneasy about the BBC’s promotion of Facebook, Twitter and, recently, WhatsApp when reaching out for listener and viewer interaction. The contributory effects of these media to worsening mental health, erosion of democracy, escalation of hatred, and polarisation of opinion have been repeatedly demonstrated.

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New House

Here’s the current state of play….