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No, I really don’t care what Gail wrote on Facebook
Inspired by a conversation on the train which was shared with the whole (quiet) carriage; fragments of a one-sided conversation.
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Review: Dragman, by Steven Appleby
Funny, sad, touching, triggering, endearing and heartwarming, and that’s just the cover. Read it, now.
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Review: Bravehearts: Men in Skirts, by Andrew Bolton
PSA: this is not a book about one of the most historically inaccurate films of modern times. But if you’re interested in the history of men wearing skirts, on the other hand…
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Review: Bi, by Dr Julia Shaw
NB: the bi prefix in ‘bisexual’ relates to ‘same gender’ and ‘other gender’. It does not mean ‘men’ and ‘women’. Here endeth the lesson.
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Last night a journal saved my life
Mine and Adrian Mole’s birthdays are a few months apart and I have always felt a kinship to him, quite apart from being the only person who recognises Adrian as the greatest poet in the English language.
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Photography 101: ISO numbers – how smooth do you want your photos?
ISO speeds need a slightly longer explanation and a lot of comparison talk about analogue/film cameras plus some peanut butter chat but bear with me, it’s all useful.
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Photography 101: Aperture – how much of your photo should be in focus?
This is the second in my ‘Photography 101’ series. We learn how to limit (or increase) the amount of light going through the diaphragm by adjusting the aperture.
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Photography 101: Shutter speed – how much movement do you want in your photos?
Shutter speed is the easiest of the concepts to understand, but in my humble opinion it’s the most powerful. When I take an image, I set the ISO number and the aperture and then mess with the shutter speed to get the effect I want.
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Some thoughts on reviews
Once upon a time, I was thinking about writing a review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’. Not for any particular reason, just because I thought it was a good record w; I like pop music; I like writing things; and, statistically, at least one of my six regular blog readers will be a Taylor Swift fanatic.
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