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hill­head under­ground sta­tion in glas­gow. unusu­ally quiet…maybe i scared every­one away. it’s such a lim­ited net­work it’s also called the clock­work orange…(the trains are painted orange). quite amazed the trans­port folk didn’t nab me…they frown on people taking pho­to­graphs for some reason…

just bought a ‘white slim angel’ ultra wide angle 35mm film camera for £29.99. it’s a rep­lica of an (in)famous viv­itar ultra wide & slim. it’s got a 22mm lens (aper­ture f/11 and shut­ter speed 1/125th sec) and…well noth­ing else really. bit more detail here. this’ll be my first ven­ture into film pho­to­graphy for many, many years. everything is manual (except the focus which you can’t change anyway!). have to say i’m approach­ing the pro­ject with a cer­tain amount of trepidation…and bought 10 x rolls of kodak colour iso200 film on impulse (they were a bar­gain though!). whether it’ll be any good remains to be seen but i can’t wait. images to follow…

just dis­covered pho­to­graphy cal­cu­lator which is an android applic­a­tion that helps cal­cu­late hyper­focal dis­tances for photography…mostly useful for land­scapes but it could be used for macro work too i sup­pose. you enter your camera type, effect­ive focal length, aper­ture and dis­tance to sub­ject. it then gives you the hyper­focal dis­tance for focus­sing. it also includes a field of view calculator…which shows the number of images required for pan­or­amic work. it has details for my sony a200 and 1476 other cam­eras.
haven’t tried hyper­focal dis­tance tech­nique before so this tool should make things slightly sim­pler. $2.99 well spent i feel. see below for a couple of screen­shots…

these bol­lards were erec­ted after the attack on glas­gow air­port in 2007. there are rather a lot of them. this was taken using my htc hero with added lomo effect.

the cent­ral hotel on hope street in glas­gow is bring refur­bished. this walk­way runs along­side it beneath the scaf­fold. ply­wood cor­ridor. lomo. map

i don’t often tweet from my head­er­less debian server but some­times the mood strikes. twidge is a com­mand line twit­ter client for linux that enables users to do just that. it sup­ports all the usual fea­tures of a stand­ard client (with graph­ical lim­it­a­tions obvi­ously) but also has some extra good­ies that you might find useful. want to sched­ule a tweet to be sent in the future? twidge can do that…

at 13.30
at> twidge update “lunch­time i think“
at> ctrl-d

it can also tweet when a cer­tain system event occurs or email you when a tweet is sent to you or a con­tact replies.

all in all a very handy…albeit niche…bit of code. grab it from github or apt-get install twidge if you’re on ubuntu (debian 5 users will need to enable some squeeze repositories).

there’s a pro­lif­er­a­tion of foxes in our cities…bold little creatures. here’s one enjoy­ing a wee nap.

light trails cre­ated by a long expos­ure while trav­el­ing along the m8 motor­way in glasgow…not easy keep­ing things steady at 70mph