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Like many people, I keep a selection of reading material in the loo...   more »

I've come across an issue with previews in Lightroom...   more »

At 0700 last Friday, Ikea delivered some shelving — for books and wine  — that I have spent the best part of the last five days assembling in our garage and store-room and, subsequently, filling the shelves from the many boxes untouched since our move (now almost 10 months ago). It's been a while since I did anything like this: if it involves manual labour, my preference is to pay someone else to do it. I have had complaints from muscles I didn't know I had. I had a brief respite on Monday morning. We've got decorators (Polish, unsurprisingly) repainting the common areas of the apartment block. This includes the frontdoor to each apartment; so I was obliged to sit in until the undercoat was sufficiently dry to allow the door to be closed.

While waiting, I continued my image cataloging in Lightroom and found this picture from April, 2004.

Heaven knows why I kept this hugely under-exposed picture, but I did. As an exercise, I decided to see what I could make of it; this is the end result.

I rather like it. I tried to think of something clever to say about tones, and textures and forms, but I couldn't.

 

Officially, Sam Reynolds is my godson...   more »