Bi-Metal

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Another possibility for 52Frames "Black And White Minimalism" today.
Can't decide between today's or yesterday's shot yet.

Waveform

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This one is probably going to be my submission for this week's 52Frames "Black And White Minimalism" challenge.

Stick The Moon On A Bracket.

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Another backup photo today, I got home from work and crashed out.
It's been a full-on week, and not entirely pleasant in places.

I'm calling it a win that I actually ended up with the energy to cook something recognisable as a meal for dinner, as opposed to eating comparative junk, which I've been doing rather too much recently.

2025-11-13

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A backup photo for today, posted late.
I spent almost all evening making some prototype parts, and ran out of time for photos.

It's The Little Things That Get You

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This caption gets a bit deep, so skip it if you're feeling delicate.

I've been listening to the latest Jack Reacher book over the last couple of days. It's a series that Lucy introduced me to, and one which we used to enjoy listening to together quite regularly, often in the car.

At the end of the book, there is a discussion between the series' original author Lee Child, and the long-time narrator Jeff Harding; several times while listening to it, I had the involuntary, automatic thoughts "Lucy would like this", or "Lucy would be interested by this", or even "I'll have to mention this bit to her", shortly followed by the jarring, unpleasant jolt of realisation that she is no longer here to have these chats with. It is a visceral, almost physical reaction, which is really quite unsettling, and gets you when you least expect it.

A bit heavy perhaps, but this has become almost as much a personal diary as a photoblog now.

Sometimes, People Sit Here

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A backup photo today, shot last week.

The Glitter Machine

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I've spent quite a lot of this evening prototyping a widget for work on my little CNC mill, flinging copious quantities of fine brass glitter all over the place.
To (approximately) quote Blondihacks, "When using a milling machine, the chips are usually confined to" (waving her hands broadly around the workshop) "this general area".
I then spent an instructive few minutes measuring, wherein I discovered that my shiny new 2mm cutter was in fact not 2mm at all, but more like 2-and-what's-a-tenth-or-two-of-a-millimetre-between-friends-mm, and my part is consequently the wrong size.
Trust but verify, they say...

At The Toybox

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This is my submission for this week's 52Frames' "Show us your toys" challenge.

I recently improved my equipment storage setup with a new cabinet, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to show it off.
It's nice to be able to grab the right lens without wrestling it out of the tiny cabinet I was using before, and my flash and grip gear now has a proper home rather than in boxes on the floor.
It's also been a while since I took a self-portrait, so you get to have my ugly mush foisted upon you today too.

Many lighting sins were atoned for with Lightroom...

Please Hold Handrail

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For safety, of course.

Between Two Points

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It seemed like an appropriate title for this photo (a backup shot from last night), and some of the lyrics felt a bit fitting after <rant redacted>.
I've been a bit obsessed with the song since I discovered it a few months ago - Between Two points by David Gilmour and Romany Gilmour.

Foggy Conversations

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It was unexpectedly foggy when I went out for a walk this evening.
I quite like this one.

Bonk!

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A backup photo from my rather damp walk last night.

11 Years

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I met Lucy for the first time 11 years ago tonight.
This place has rebranded from Copper to Gilt in the intervening period, but it looks virtually the same inside, although I didn't go in tonight.

Even at this early moment, we really clicked, and had a proper side-splitting laugh when I talked about a recent visit to a Toyota factory, where a new car was rolling off the production line every 70 seconds. Lucy took this very literally, and pulled a horrified face at the thought of thousands of cars falling off a conveyor belt into a smashed up heap at the bottom of the hill!

I wonder how many cars have rolled off the end of Toyota's production line since...

Copper Plated

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This one's a backup from last night's walk.
I love the colours here.

Lengthening Shadows

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Lovely light this evening, so I went out for a walk.

Meander

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Surprisingly nice weather at times this weekend.
2025-11-01 - late posting this one.