Recent content by pwhysall

I enjoy Joe Cornish's work at a technical level, but I get more out of looking at Peter Leeming's pictures.

I'd crop the bright sky out of the second one altogether. Lovely pictures.

BTW at South Gare there is a huge flat sandy beach, which is where the dogs get to play - I don't make them clamber about on that slaggy rocky part! Side note: South Gare itself is completely artificial, being constructed in the middle of the 19th Century, using around 5,000,000 tonnes of slag...

So I had a week off last week, when the weather was fine. I went to the seaside every day, and took the opportunity to visit a couple of places that are not too far away, but to which I've never been. Gear was minimal - camera and wide angle lens on a BlackRapid strap, no polariser or tripod or...

Got a 6S+ on launch day. Made these images with it. Disclaimer: a PC was used to assemble the montage. All other editing was done in PS Express on the phone. Autumn Montage by Peter Whysall, on Flickr

Huntcliffe from The Stray, Monochrome by Peter Whysall, on Flickr

When I did this, I replaced my system volume (i.e. C: drive). Acronis TrueImage (the software I got with the SSD) cloned my existing system volume onto the SSD and marked the SSD as bootable. On restarting the system, which was now booting off the SSD, the old disk was still visible, but...

Samsung have just released a 16TB SSD. Whilst this is an enterprise-grade part which will be unlikely to cost much less than £5,000, it will have the effect of bringing down SSD costs across the board. The only reason I haven't switched away from the rotating rust volumes in my PC (the OS and...

Crucial MX200. Bringing you these words right now.

There was a lot of "who moved my cheese" with Windows 8. It seemed to me as though people have forgotten how to adapt to change. Some of these people managed to go from 8-bit computing to DOS to Windows 3 to Windows 95 with less wailing and gnashing of teeth than which greeted a full-screen...

In my experience, all my best (outdoor/landscape) pictures have come from planned shoots. I've gone and looked at the location (with dogs, without camera, to understand the place I'm shooting, from more than just one angle), checked The Photographer's Ephemeris to work out where/when the...

Or sooner, if you're lucky, and Cthulhu eats you first.

Fortunately for you, you're completely wrong! Windows 7 will drop out of extended support in 2020, so you're good for a little while yet.

Oh, go on then, seeing as you asked nicely. One more. George, curious by Peter Whysall, on Flickr

If it's about the gear and scratching an itch, go for it. I don't wear an Omega watch because i think it's a more accurate clock or has more features than my plastic G-Shock (nope and nope), I wear it because I like the look and feel of it. (And there's some irrelevant-to-real-life nerdery about...