The regular New Year feast of honours was announced today. The usual crew of luvvies were awarded. And, also as is now usual, a few ‘common folk’ got awarded for services to their respective communities/professions. These are typically people who have had the same job delivering post/serving chips for a squillion years and now that they are 90 they get an...

Despite having more time off work than I can remember over the festive period, didn’t do much photography. Only managed one trip out on a very foggy and cold Christmas Eve, went down to the bridges to see what they looked...

Users of GMail will know that it gives a single text link at the top of the mail, usually in context of what is going on on the page. This is a news story or other item of interest. The strange thing is that when you are in your ‘Spam’ folder deleting out the rubbish, the oh-so-clever Google algorithm almost always presents you with a link to a recipe...

I’m delighted to say I got an ‘Honorable Mention’ in The Everyman Photo contest landscape section. Got into the top 10 of a few of the 21 judges. The image I entered was: click to download hi-res...

This post serves a very simple purpose. To thank my very good friend DonP for all his help and support over the last few years. He really is a diamond. Recently, he put me forward to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Last week I got the news that it had been successful, and I am now Scott Liddell BEng FRSA. When you look at the people who have been and...