Category Archives: Obiter dicta

Photography is sooooo easy – talking through one’s bottom, and the ‘Rule of Thirds’

I’ve just been locked in the small airless basement of a cafe with two guys in their early twenties sat at the next table. One of them was declaiming loudly and authoritatively, through an overwhelming aftershave, on photography. I don’t normally listen in on other people’s conversations, but this one was almost shouted in an...

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Nothing to do with photography

Has anyone else noticed the similarity between the way that David Cameron talks, and Pitt the Younger? Here is David Cameron:- And this is Pitt the Younger:- Coincidentally – David Cameron just happens to be Britain’s youngest Prime Minister for 200-odd years since, errr…, Pitt the Younger.

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Love, hate and Ryanair

We just came back from a whole 5 days in Florence, yippee! Ryanair isn’t an airline – it’s a game. The object of the game is to reach the destination as cheaply as possible, (preferably more or less on the day that you were supposed to). The Enemy has the task of trying to make...

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