Daily Archives: 12 February 2014

UK Photography, OR how my ten-year-old daughter kicked my butt, three times

A few months ago, I posted this photograph of my daughter piloting my best camera and biggest telephoto lens, while I was reduced to snapping a picture of her with an early-1970′s vintage rangefinder loaded with honest-to-goodness black and white … Continue reading

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Science of Middle-Earth: New Paperback Edition

The printing history of The Lord of the Rings is reputedly one of the more complex and tangled issues in modern publishing history. Matters aren’t quite so fraught for The Science of Middle-earth, my own contribution to the canon. For … Continue reading

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