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I liked the banding effect here - stripes of sky, cloud, trees and crop (some kind of bean, by the look of it).

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Portsmouth on a summer evening, from Portsdown Hill

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More pretty purple.

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Pretty purple.

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Begonia againia.

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More from the garden....

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Like the previous Pictacule, this was taken in my parents' garden.

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A view of a critter fairly determined not to be in a photograph.

Maybe I need a telephoto lens.

Or a bit more patience.

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Port Solent, about 6:30 pm

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Taken with on-camera pop-up flash (thanks to Shannon for lending a hand).

Oh, and by the way...

...it's glass.

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When all the highlights are burnt out of an image, you're left with something like physical typography.

The Number One?

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Portsdown Hill around 6 pm.

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This particular device (of which this is a picture of both sides) appears in various places online.

Such a place is here, but there are several others....

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My new camera arrived today, so naturally I couldn't wait to try it out. "Bosham at Low Tide" is at left. I've tricked up the RAW file from the camera using the supplied software. Probably overdone it (which was deliberate, just to see how it looked).

The other pics I took can be seen on the Flickr photostream here.

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This image I've posted is about as sharp as the object itself. Consider it an opener for what's to come....

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What the hell is this? (Whatever it is, it could do with a good scrub....)

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Welcome to Pictacule!

This is the start of an experiment - an image posted every day, with the pick of the week's images added to a Flickr photostream.

Blazing a trail for Podiobook authors: Scott Sigler & Seth Harwood

Look what just arrived!


A package from Amazon.com outside my door yesterday evening contained these two new releases:

• Infected by Scott Sigler, (hardcover) published by Crown
• Jack Wakes Up by Seth Harwood (paperback) published by Breakneck Books

Congrats to both of them, and thanks for drawing the mainstream spotlight onto new media - both of these titles were originally released as free podcast novels.
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Goodbye Sir Arthur, and thank you

Sad news.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7304004.stm

Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the world's best science-fiction writer, died today, aged 90.

See also, here.
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What is a blog?

Not only a succinct explanation of what a blog is, but also what it's for:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI

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