Where we are is very confusing on maps: most show something like Santa Maria, Huatulco. But the nearest town (and bay and harbour) is...

Oaxaca, Mexico It has been the worst start to a holiday ever. I managed to get a nasty cold the day before we left and am recovering...

Most people either weren’t born or don’t remember that SETI (the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) sent a message into space in...

“Nothing else in the world…is so powerful as an idea whose time has come”. The SETI response to the Chilbolton reply was a pretty good...

I’m going to say a bad word. Well, two bad words - crop circles. There. It was about 1990 when crop circles started to change. They had...

How is that possible? I have no idea. I am soon going to trade up from my Olympus OMD EM1 Mark II to the Mark III version for two precise...

The old saying is that pictures don’t lie, but that is often, well, a lie - pictures quite commonly lie. In fact to be a great picture it...

Oh boy, here we go again. Olympus comes out with a new micro 4/3 camera, the OMD EM1X, and the rabid full-framers come scrabblinging out...

Well, well, well, colour me purple and tie me up in a bow. Or something like that. I’m trying to express my surprise. I just watched a...

I've been taking more portraits lately and climbing that long uphill learning curve. One of the first things that you discover is the...