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Digging through old photos, I found this one from a visit to the Great Wall of China in 2007:

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A favourite shot from our recent trip to the Yorkshire Dales.

Richmond is a lovely town in Yorkshire, with the remains of a very fine medieval castle. I loved the colour of the stone at the base of the keep...

A couple of weeks ago, I had fun with friends on this giant climbing frame in Bavaria. It was a work trip, but we had some time off too. It was either this or Powerpoint slides…

Great fun. You can find plenty more photos of the Hochseilgarten, including my co-climbers, Steve Hales and Ray Gordon, here.

I liked the angles in this photo of my friend Ray Gordon.

…who needs to touch the ground?

A tree on the Wimpole Hall estate.

I had a good walk around there with the dog today. More info on Wagipedia.

About six years ago I did some brief experiments with 'light painting': photography using long exposures where you move the light sources around while the shutter's open:

Click the image for a couple more...

My friend Karen has done this on a rather larger scale, for example by running around bits of Thetford Forest in the middle of the night carrying big lights:

But she's also just pointed me at a lovely example of what you can do by bringing this up to date and using iPads as the light source. Making Future Magic is a creation of the Dentsu London agency, and is beautifully done. Worth clicking the full-screen button.

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

I often bemoan the rather low quality (by today's standards) of the camera on my iPhone 3GS, but I still occasionally get some interesting shots with it.

The post-processing was done on the iPhone using the rather nice Camera+ app.