Amy

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I went to see Amy Macdonald live in Nottingham with a friend tonight after taking a last-minute day off work.
I really don't like crowds and close proximity to people, but she was fantastic, definitely worth putting up with the crowd for. It probably also helped that I've had the tickets for ages, and I've really been looking forward to it.
Lots of (great) new songs, but she dug through her back catalogue and belted out most of my old favourites too.

The Fuji definitely wasn't the right camera to shoot this with, at least from where I was sat, but the last thing I wanted to do was get kicked out by taking a bigger camera, so it had to do.

Running Rings Around Me

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I think this is the biggest diameter moon halo I've ever seen. It was really quite spectacular.
I was out and didn't have a real camera on me, but my phone has done a decent job, especially after a bit of massaging in Lightroom.

Quality Street

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A present from my in-laws subjected to the snackro treatment.
This one's a focus stack of 52 shots.
Ideally, I'd have either found a nice shiny example of this chocolate, or somehow polished it up to remove the marks from the surfaces.

Bottoms Up

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A backup photo today, I got home from work and crashed out, falling asleep on the sofa for a couple of hours.

Stick In The Mud

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Rather pleasant weather today.

Rainy Recharge

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I seem to recall from a few years ago hearing some particularly idiotic politician blathering on about how it was impossible to drive or recharge an EV in wet weather.
(He was very wrong, in case you were wondering).

Data Behind A Yellow Fence

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About 17 hours into an 18.5 hour working day.
Babysitting a twitchy transformer, listening to a 50Hz buzz, while waiting for a spreadsheet full of boxes to turn (and stay) green.

At least the software I wrote a couple of years ago is working well here, slurping up numbers from a data acquisition unit and filing it in an orderly manner for analysis.
I need to do some fairly significant mods to make it fully windows 11 compatible soon though, running it on my old laptop isn't a good long-term solution!
Maybe when this project is put to bed, I'll be able to sit down and deal with it properly.