A bit of an overcast wet day today. Not the best of days to be venturing out looking at trees for day 6 of the Bradford Photo a Day where, you guessed it, the word is Tree. See here for the first posting on this – marfell.me.uk/wordpress/?p=266 This was my submission for the day:- It…

This is day 5 of the #bradfordphotoaday challenge and the word is window. See here for the start of it – marfell.me.uk/wordpress/?p=266 I have already had a photo of a reflected United Reform Church in a window, and the window was not the interest, come to that the reflection wasn’t much good either; the idea…

This is day 4 of the #bradfordphotoaday challenge and the word is Statue. See here for the start of it – marfell.me.uk/wordpress/?p=266 This morning the weather did not lend itself to happy snapping, but I wasn’t to know that things would be a lot better by the afternoon. A cold wind was blowing sleety rain…

I have had thoughts about more disciplined attempts at photography and still have a couple of ideas that I might go for but this April is going to see an attempt to take a photo each day that in some way is related to the word from the @hiddenbradford #bradfordphotoaday challenge. Day 1. Digital. For…

I have now been to see the Life On-line exhibition at the Media Museum twice. The first time was to have a look at what it was saying about open source. I looked round the ground floor and the 7th floor and as a result blogged about Open Sauce. I was also putting together a…

I am a fan of Open Source – I use Ubuntu Linux at home, Open Office, Firefox web browser, Thunderbird email client, I host websites that use MediaWiki, Joomla, WordPress and webtrees all written in PHP that runs on Apache web-servers. I have also written my own applications in PHP and provide access to it…

Well I have read about it in the press but today was the first time that I have been asked to stop taking photos and move on. On the way into Bradford today I was walking towards Forster Square station when I heard Kestrels calling. Of course I had my binoculars with me, as you…

Note that each photo is a link to the flickr stream, except the remote release which is a link to Amazon. 🙂 On Sunday morning I saw a Great Spotted Woodpecker from our bedroom window. Of course, by the time I got downstaires it had gone. I had things to be doing so I set…

We probably all remember learning about the water cycle at school. How water would evaporate, how it would be then form clouds, rain down on us on the hills and flow down rivers to the sea. We have all seen clouds, rain, rivers and sea but it is only recently that I have watched clouds…