Hello! I’m Ben. This is just an, infrequently updated, collection of thoughts and rambles about things I’m interested in.

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Articles

• Importance of Writing

  Don't let others think for you.

• Photography in Plato's Cave

  Some thoughts on photography in the age of generative AI.

• Canoe Building Part 3

  Third part of my canoe build. Steam bending the first stem.

• Canoe Building Part 2

  Second part of my canoe build. With the forms added you start to see the shape of the boat.

• Canoe Building Part 1

  I'm building a canoe. I'll be documenting here as I go. Here's the first part.

• Stop Spotlight Indexing External Drives

  A quick tip to make Spotlight faster is you use external volumes on your mac.

• A Letter to Chloe Smith

  A copy of a letter sent to Chloe Smith MP

• AI Writing Sales Emails

  On being spammed by large language models

• My LRPS Panel

  I'm very happy to have achieved my LRPS. Here's my successful LRPS panel

• Don't worry about Straight Out of Camera, worry about Straight Out of Mind

  Is it dishonest to post process your photographs?

• Caister Sunrise - How I made this image

  Some people have asked about my process for making this image, here's a how it went.

• Photography Workflow - Part 2

  A look at my workflow for digital asset management, backup, and digital obsolescence.

• Photography Workflow - Part 1

  First in a series of post detailing my photography workflow

• Cryptarithms and Constraint Logic Programming

  More Prolog! This time using Constraint Logic Programing in Finite Domains to solve cryptarithms

• Reclaiming My Internet

  Some thoughts on a decentralised and federated internet.

• Antony Gormley @ UEA

  A temporary exhibition of Antony Gormley sculpture at the UEA

• Co Mayo - Ireland

  A few images made around County Mayo

• Peak District Landscapes

  A collection of landscapes from the Peak District

• The Barber Paradox

  A nice little logical paradox with surprising far reaching consequences.

• I've had this great idea

  What happens to all those great ideas that never see the light of day?

• Getting started with Prolog

  Prolog is an often overlooked language, perhaps I can convince you to give it a go.