Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
Things don't usually work out this like this but for once my teaching and research schedules have fitted together really neatly. This past week I've been busy with the IPPE 2015 students at University West introducing them to research principles and practices through recording their Time Geographical activities using Google Drive applications. Then on Thursday... Continue Reading →
It's a couple of months since I posted about the book project. There's been plenty to work on: finding the right online publisher, deciding on the layout, selecting and reworking images, tracking down picture details, drawing the maps and then composing the book. Here is a preview of the covers: you are looking at the... Continue Reading →
A new compact camera was waiting for me at Willy's post office in Uddevalla last month. It's the Pentax WG-3 GPS that I took around with me. Here are six of my better efforts with the new technology: A sunset from the cliffs above Äsperöd where our apartment is; Black and white leaves and a... Continue Reading →
We are clearly not alone. These two aliens were keeping their eyes on me in the Orchid House of the Botanic Gardens in Göteborg ....
It is late summer in Sweden, or perhaps early autumn is a better description, the trees are just beginning to change colour and it is the time when there should be plenty of mushrooms. But there aren't many of them this year. My friends tell me that they came out early with the summer being... Continue Reading →
I guess most of us have a few of these pictures. The ones where you are taking a picture of a rock on Kompassberg mountain and you see an eye in it, or the face of a baboon on a rock in the Botanic Gardens, Göteborg. Old trees are particularly good, I have a creature... Continue Reading →
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