Damian’s notes

Here’s a YouTube video about making a pinhole camera in Blender and then going increasingly demented making better and better Blender models of the optics of camera lenses. A tour de force that will delight or appall camera or graphics nerds.

Chloe Dewe Mathews’s photographic project Thames Log examines the ever-changing nature of our relationship to water, from ancient pagan festivities through to the rituals of modern life.

I encountered this as an open-air exhibition in Christ Church Meadows during the lockdown summer of 2021—the photos mounted on boards on the edge of the river they document, captioned meticulously with the Doves Type famously relegated to the Thames in its own ritual in 1917. A poignant reminder of our connection to people via the river we share, at a time of forced separation.

Beth Moon’s 14-year quest to photograph ancient trees has taken her across the world. Some of her subjects grow in isolation, on remote mountainsides, private estates, or nature preserves; others maintain a proud, though often precarious, existence in the midst of civilization.

A six month field test of the Leica Q, a 24MP camera with a fixed 28-mm f1.7 lens.

Lovely Milky Way composite image, with a discussion of how it is achieved in the comments.