Sunday, 7 December 2025

Welkom Op De Korenmarkt (unless you have more than two wheels)

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I've been to Arnhem a few times over the years, but never had much opportunity to explore it until today.
I quite like it, at least the bits I've seen.

Incidentally, the rain in the Netherlands is every bit as wet as the rain in the UK (who knew?...)

Saturday, 6 December 2025

Adjust Course

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En Route to the Netherlands for a work trip, my first overseas work trip since late 2019, as I recall.
A surprisingly easy trip on the way out, although I do wish the very drunk and slightly randy people out in the corridor would have kept it down at 3:30AM!

Friday, 5 December 2025

Setting Fire To The Budget

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I bought myself a new 3D printer from Prusa.
I'm looking forward to doing some interesting things with the 5 heads on this machine.
It's very nice to finally have a real toolchanging machine which can swap materials in a matter of seconds with minimal purge waste, as opposed to my previous MMU system, which took ages for every material swap, and wasted a lot of material purging the old material remnants out.

Thursday, 4 December 2025

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.

Wednesday, 3 December 2025

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.

Tuesday, 2 December 2025

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.

Monday, 1 December 2025

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.