Now that’s grim

Norwich, August 2006. Grim I say, grim.

Roads: Traffic Management

Today on Radio Norfolk a focus on reducing the speed you drive your car at to save lives. No problem with that, except some of the issues also covered were bad driving traffic management (causes of lives lost).
My experience is that driving skills are going downhill. Each day I witness one to three cars that [...]

Middle East at war: King Abdullah speaks

BBC News has a good, frank, TV interview with King Abdullah II of Jordan in which he reflects on an unstable Middle East. To summarise:
“King Abdullah of Jordan, in a BBC interview, said the international community had shown only piecemeal ways of dealing with the Middle East and had no overall strategy.”
See here for more.
I [...]

Controlling out-of-focus blur, in photos

I recently experimented a little with my Canon DSLR. I wanted to see if there was a quick and easy way of remembers, even understanding, the rules behind background blur.
You’ve seen the shots – a flower or face sharply in focus. The background is a blur. Creates a single focal point (in most cases).
Basically, the [...]