Monday, 26 January 2026

Unexpected Lift-Off

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My friend has just bought himself a drone, but as he hasn't got round to dealing with the paperwork of getting his operator and Flyer IDs yet, he hasn't been able to fly it. As a result, I got the privilege of taking his shiny new toy for its maiden voyage.

It seems mini drone camera tech has come on quite a long way since I got my Mini 2 - the low light performance of the Mini 4 Pro is really quite good, and with a bit of fettling in Lightroom, it polishes up rather well.

Sunday, 25 January 2026

Snowdrops: Again, But Bigger

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A backup photo today. After a bit of a lie-in, and some miscellaneous pottering around, I met up with a friend to hand over something I'd made for him, then ended up with an impromptu visit to my sister and brother-in-law.
Short story shorter, I ran out of day, so I hereby present a shot from the weekend.

Saturday, 24 January 2026

Walk This Way

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But Bring Your Wellies.
It was a lovely day today, so much nicer than the last few wet days. I'm glad I got out for a walk with my parents.
I'm enjoying this lens too.

Friday, 23 January 2026

Selected Reflection

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Yet another backup photo today, shot about a week ago.

Another busy day left me out of time and energy to shoot anything, but I'm not sorry to be able to share this one, I rather liked it.

Thursday, 22 January 2026

Conversation Is Suspended

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Today was indeed interesting at the EMC lab. I learned rather a lot, and with a little persuasion, our test object passed the first round of testing.
The day did contain rather too much in the way of coughing test engineers though.
Unpleasantly stressful in that regard.

I went for a little walk this evening to decompress my mind and spine, and got this shot through the window of a closed coffee shop.

Wednesday, 21 January 2026

2026-01-21

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A backup photo today (posted late, naturally).
Speaking in the context of the day in question rather than the day of posting: I spent a rather busy day preparing kit for testing at an EMC lab.
I anticipate an interesting day tomorrow.

Tuesday, 20 January 2026

Better Than Nothing

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Better than a poke in the eye too.

Not the finest photo to grace these pages, but at least I got a brief glimpse of the Aurora tonight between two banks of cloud.
I've seen some absolutely spectacular photos that other people have managed to capture over the last couple of days, I'm very jealous, and want to move somewhere with better skies!