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Over the last few weeks, in what has become an annual event, I went through the photos that I shared on this blog over the last year, choosing twelve photos for sharing again in this retrospective. As usual, this means that the photos have appeared on this blog since I published the last retrospective, but may have been taken earlier. For those who are interested, … Continue reading 2021: A Photographic Retrospective
Last week I processed another photo from an evening outing with R in Għargħur. I thought I’d share this today, while more recent photos wait in my pile of photos still to be processed. This was an unplanned photo, which I find often enough is the best way to approach photography, or at least the most rewarding. As we walked along the Victoria Lines, looking … Continue reading Pool of Light on a Country Lane
This week’s throwback photo is another one from the walk that I did about a year ago, starting from Mġarr. From Ġnejna I walked around the headland at Karraba, finding a path among the boulders, until I reached the beach at Għajn Tuffieħa. The proper one, that is normally reached by going down a long flight of stairs from the car park, not the arguably … Continue reading Beach and Clay Slopes
About a month ago, R and I headed up to Miġra l-Ferħa, in the vicinity of Mtaħleb, for a simple evening picnic with some friends of ours. The idea was that we’d spend some time after the sunset there, watching the stars, on what was a moonless night. The picnic went well, and it was great fun to spend some time again with our friends, … Continue reading Clifftop Sunset
Autumn began, here in the northern hemisphere, and with it some cooler weather. Locally the change came with quite a bang yesterday, and the first downpours. It’s still warm, of course, though a bit cooler already. This heralds the start of a new season for photography and walks in the country. So perhaps it is appropriate that this week’s throwback photo is from such an … Continue reading Lippija Tower
Another quick technical post today to talk about getting ZoneMinder and zmNinja to work again after upgrading Ubuntu from 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS. If you’re struggling to get ZoneMinder working again, or having trouble connecting with zmNinja, after upgrading Ubuntu, then this is for you. Background I’m assuming, if you’re reading this, that you already know that ZoneMinder is a popular open-source software for … Continue reading Fixing ZoneMinder and zmNinja on Upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
This write-up has been a long time coming. A few months, as a matter of fact, from the last time I calibrated the Cintiq. As usual, this is very much a note to self so I remember the process next time around, and in the hope it will be useful to others in the same situation. Background First of all, I’m assuming here you already … Continue reading Calibrating a Cintiq 16 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
I recently upgraded my home desktop from 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS, in anticipation of rolling out similar updates at work and on my home server. As upgrades go, this went down reasonably well, with the main inconvenience being Ubuntu’s insistence with snap, and its recent migration of Firefox from a regular package to a snap release. (For reasons I’ll go into another time, I … Continue reading VPN Errors on Upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
I do not often shoot or share sunset photos, though I must admit I do have a few. Cliché or not, something rather special happens as the evening approaches and the colour of the light and sky changes. Today’s photo follows very neatly from the one I shared a week ago, as this was the sunset that R and I were watching as we shared … Continue reading Għargħur Sunset
I meant to share this photo earlier this week, but I immediately realised I had the wrong identification for this plant. So I shared something else instead. It took me a while to find the correct one, and now that I’m pretty confident I have it right, I thought I’d write a quick post to share this. The plant in question is an indigenous one, … Continue reading Ħannewija
The weather is still very warm here, but there is also the undeniable feeling that the summer is coming to an end. At work we’re getting ready for the new academic year that will soon start, and on the roads the traffic seems to have increased already. And so the tail end of the year is approaching. Yet here I’m still working through a significant … Continue reading Overlooking Il-Munqar
Today’s photo is, unusually, a portrait. Rather a simple one, from an outing Roberta and I did last week in Għargħur. It was one of the best kinds of outings, a spontaneous decision to pack a simple picnic and head up to Għargħur to eat it outside while watching the sun set. Followed by a short amble along the Victoria lines in the dark. A … Continue reading Roberta
It has already been a couple of months since the last time I shared a topo with new routes. The reason is rather simple: preparing this topo took much more work than earlier ones. In part it’s no surprise, because the routes are longer. This makes the photography a fair bit more complicated, and it’s something I’d like to improve even further, going forward. For … Continue reading New Routes in Wied Babu
Muddy Boots 