Author Archives: Richard Wintle

About Richard Wintle

I am Canadian by heritage, and a molecular biologist and human geneticist by training. My day job is Assistant Director of a large genome centre, where I do various things along the lines of "keeping the wheels on". In my spare time, I tend to run around with a camera, often chasing horses, race cars, musicians, and occasionally, wildlife.

My old new little friend – the Voigtländer VF-101

Posted on 6 May 2013 by Richard Wintle

Oh, goodness me. I’ve gone and bought a handful of old film cameras on Ebay. Six, exactly – purchased on the cheap with the understanding that they might not work. I think I’ve done alright – three apparently just fine, … Continue reading →

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Crawling around the back yard

Posted on 3 May 2013 by Richard Wintle

This is the kind of thing that happens when I’m waiting around all day for a plumber to appear to fix a leaky valve in the upstairs bathroom: Yes, that’s a perfectly ordinary Earthworm, wriggling into the earth under a … Continue reading →

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Strange history, and thoughts of trying times

Posted on 10 March 2013 by Richard Wintle

In between grant writing, which has consumed much of the first two months of this year, and the inevitable mountain of other things that have been set aside because of it, I’ve managed to escape and explore a little more … Continue reading →

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More Monochrome – Toronto’s Spadina Avenue

Posted on 16 February 2013 by Richard Wintle

For the second time, I’ve been featured in a gallery on the website of popular photography magazine, Popular Photography (see what I did there?). So it’s time for some more shameless bragging, tempered with a mild introduction to one of … Continue reading →

Posted in Afga Silette LK, black and white, bragging, Chinatown, downtown, Film, Hobbies, Photography, Spadina Avenue, Toronto | Comments Off on More Monochrome – Toronto’s Spadina Avenue

Black and White, Silver and Gold

Posted on 5 February 2013 by Richard Wintle

With the holiday season over, the late winter grant-writing grind in full swing, and spring still separated from me by the inevitable February blahs, I need something shiny to cheer me up. Although, truth be told, a recent visit from … Continue reading →

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Happy Holidays, you lot

Posted on 22 December 2012 by Richard Wintle

I’ve not much to say at the moment, except “Happy Holidays” to anyone who may be reading. It’s been not even a year since this blog appeared here at Occam’s Typewriter. I’ll be heading out tomorrow to where my relatives … Continue reading →

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Chuffed

Posted on 9 December 2012 by Richard Wintle

Time to brag a little, I think. Lazily flipping through the content on the website of Popular Photography, my new favourite magazine, I was tickled pink to come across this: The two or three of you who read this blog … Continue reading →

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The Febrile Muse, Musing – an interview with Cindy Doran

Posted on 26 November 2012 by Richard Wintle

This interview originally appeared in slightly different form at Scientific American Books/FSG. The book in question. Among the ever-lengthening series of interviews of authors of pieces in this year’s edition of the OpenLab series, The Best Science Writing Online 2012, … Continue reading →

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More local history – the lime kiln

Posted on 10 November 2012 by Richard Wintle

Pioneer lime kiln, Mountsberg, Ontario – 120 format film and the 1937 camera I’ve occasionally written about getting out and about and exploring local history, here in the southeastern part of the Province of Ontario. This is something I should … Continue reading →

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Intense – Bangkok, a week later

Posted on 15 October 2012 by Richard Wintle

I don’t know where to start. Bangkok – the Grand Palace. I’ve been back from my trip to Bangkok for a week now, and I still don’t think that all of my experiences in this city have quite sunk in.

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