As time permits, I continue to work my way through a big backlog of Raw files. It is all too easy to take photos and leave post-processing for another day.
My strategy had been to work through most files that are Continue reading
Canon, Nikon and the lure of the camera system
With the launch of the 5D Mark III, Canon have responded to Nikon’s new DSLR for professionals, the D800. Canon has chosen not to continue the megapixel arms race – Nikon’s model now boasts a 36Mp sensor – but instead Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Branding, Canon, Customer loyalty, Nikon
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Spring at Stourhead
Stourhead is one of the best landscape gardens in the South of England. A National Trust property to the west of Salisbury, on the Dorset/Wiltshire border it was sculpted in the mid-Eighteenth Century around a lake created by damming the River Stour near its source.
The design of the gardens draws its inpsiration from Continue reading
Search engine optimisation for beginners
So, you have a website…
Simply owning a website is, in itself, no longer a source of competitive advantage; virtually every company now has one. What starts to transforms your site from a vanity-publishing cost into a revenue-generating asset is Continue reading
Raw file image processing made simpler
Every so often, you come across something that challenges the way you’ve done things for a long time. So it was for me last week when I stumbled across Philip Frye’s video critique of an image on Outdoor Photographer.
His basic thesis is that Continue reading
David Cameron raises the union jack for Britain
It could so easily have been the white flag. David Cameron has most certainly confounded his critics on the Right, at least temporarily. Finding himself caught between the ‘Merkozy’ federalist steamroller and the interests of Britain, he chose the latter. I suspect that he found saying ‘Non’ to what had hitherto seemed inevitable rather liberating, if not exhilarating.
Cameron has certainly appeared hamstrung at times by Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Merkel, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, EU, Labour, Nick Clegg, Nicolas Sarkozy, Nigel Farage, UKIP
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Social media strategy
Even though I have personal profiles on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, I am dubious about the business benefit of devoting disproportionate corporate resources – time, people or money – on social media simply because everybody else is doing so. Attracting a thousand fickle followers just by running a competition to win a couple of iPads doesn’t necessarily make you a social media expert.
Fundamentally, you are helping to populate somebody else’s website; no sane organisation should be Continue reading
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Tagged Branding, Crisis management, Customer service, Facebook, LinkedIn, Recruitment, Twitter
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Thames panoramas at sunset
Making my way home from London on Tuesday, I got off the Tube at Embankment and made my way to Waterloo station across the successor to Hungerford Bridge alongside the railway into Charing Cross. I never tire of the view from there. It was the first cold day of Autumn and the sunset along the river looked fantastic. Continue reading
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Hotel Marinedda on Sardinia
At the end of September, my wife and I enjoyed a relaxing break at the Hotel Marinedda, near Isola Rossa, Sardinia. Fed up with lousy summer during much of the summer, we booked the holiday three weeks before travelling. I wanted to stay at a quiet resort with a good beach and a high probability of warm sunshine; my wife didn’t want to fly more than two or three hours. This all pointed to Continue reading
UKIP leader Nigel Farage speaks in Lyndhurst
On Monday 19 September, largely out of curiosity, I attended an open meeting in Lyndhurst organised by UKIP, at which the speaker was its leader, Nigel Farage MEP. Although it had not been very well publicised, to my knowledge (I saw just a couple of posts on Twitter), it attracted Continue reading
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