* Work: Technical piece of analysis - Why the iPad is Intel’s worst nightmare, and to balance that out, a distinctly less technical review of the marvellously simple Zombie Driver.
* First few photos from my epic trip to China on my sabbatical in September/October last year: Tea and Temples.
* The Wired Jester: My year in books, 2009.
Since I’ve got family nearby, I’ve visited Wakehurst Place in West Sussex a couple of times this year. It’s lovely; it combines an Elizabethan country house with extensive gardens and the Millennium Seedbank, the world’s largest seed conservation project. Earlier in the Autumn, the gardens featured an exhibition of photos from the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition. It runs until February, and it features some terrific work, especially the macros of seeds and flowers. The 2010 competition has come up, and I decided to enter two categories: garden views and plant portraits. You could enter four images in each category, so here’s a selection of the ones I went with:
Plant portraits
Stalk of Fire. An old photo that I rescued from a dusty folder on the hard disk to brighten up a dull winter day. Taken an August ago, in the gardens of one of South East London’s best days out, Eltham Palace.
Camera: iPhone 3G, processed with Camerabag app.
A favourite image of mine, snapped on the iPhone at Tate’s Rothko show. I entered it into a competition run by Penguin to win a big print of the new cover artwork for 1984. To win, you had to enter an image that reflected 1984; I chose this shot because it’s funnier and stranger than a lot of 1984-derived images tend to be, although of course, it doesn’t shy away from the central darkness of the novel – how bleak life is when words cannot be trusted.
Camera: Nikon D40
Lens: Nikon 18-55 (kit lens)
Not a place many people visit, but I’d agree with Rough Guide when they call Taipei Asia’s most under-rated city. Here’s some photos not of motherboards or netbooks, but of the place where they’re born.
Exiting Warren Street Tube station, London. Cross processed. My most popular shot on Flickr.
Camera: Ricoh Caplio RR211
Waiting for a flight from Taipei to Hong Kong; leaving just as the rain came down.
Camera: Nikon D40
Lens: Nikon 18-200VR
A trip to Peleliu, an island in the South Pacific, now home to WW2 ruins that are full of stories. Widely linked, thanks to Boing Boing.
The Wired Jester
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