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Ask AI: How to Maintain a Healthy Diet
Intestinal Health For good intestinal health, it’s important to focus on foods that support a healthy gut microbiome, promote digestion,...


Video: Images Imagined
This short video brings together the best of the AI images that appear in the ImageTrek galleries. Thanks for watching.


Listening to Birdsong
If you live in Great Britain or Ireland and you enjoy listening to birdsong, you might want to add these CDs to your collection. Although...


Turn a Smartphone Into Your Music Centre
Rather than relying on streaming services, I use an app on a smartphone to listen to my entire music and book collection. I’ve been using...


Ask AI: How do Roses Produce a Pleasant Fragrance?
Blossoms like roses produce a pleasant fragrance through volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which are small molecules that easily...


Irish Longhouses
19th Century Rural House Design While travelling in the more remote regions of the Irish countryside you will come across the weathered...


Are You Chasing Your Tail to Please YouTube?
I’ve recently watched quite a few videos that are focussed on older folks making good progress on YouTube. That’s ok to a point. But I’m...


Video: A Collection of Images
This short video showcases some of my work.


Ask AI: What's the difference between the UK, Britain and Great Britain?
These terms are often used interchangeably but actually refer to different geographical and political entities. Here's a breakdown: 1....


AI and the Challenges of Non-photography
Is it OK for photographers to enjoy AI fiction? During a time when I was unavoidably at home a lot, I experimented with AI image-generation on ChatGPT, Sora and Midjourney. After a few months I was fascinated and entertained, but getting the results I wanted wasn't easy. It was a hit and miss process. ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, if you please) was definitely better at interpreting my prompts but took its time doing it. Figuring out all the nuances of Mid


Bark Detail
I set up my Fujifilm X-T3 and 60mm macro lens to shoot a series of focus-bracketed images. It turned out I shot way too many! I only...


The Twisty Holly Tree
To properly capture a small holly tree from below I had to shoot four images, bottom to top. These were stitched together to create a...


Photography and Mental Health
Those who suffer from mental health issues may benefit from an absorbing hobby such as photography. Dedicating yourself to a creative...


Using AI to Create an Album Cover
Before I took a break from AI image-generation, I used it to create this mock-up album cover in Affinity Photo 2.


Ramelton, County Donegal
This shot was captured by the Canon EOS 50 (below) on Fujifilm Reala film. I also used a flashgun tilted up slightly to bring out the...


Air Show
Decades ago I went to a local air show – so local I walked to it. Frugal days that they were, I ran off one roll of Kodak Gold 400 in my...


Back Again
Back in the woods again. Just minutes before leaving to go to our local wood, my mother suddenly took ill and passed out in her kitchen....


Preserving a Lost Photo
When I last moved house back in 2006 I lost quite a number of images that I’d burned to CD. I'd learned the hard way about backing up...


Using Free-standing Weights to Stay Fit
If you think you’re in reasonably good health, keep to a sensible diet and have no significant heart, back or joint problems, maybe you...


Father and Baby
This was something of a failed shoot. Try as we might, the wee baby stayed blissfully asleep. Megan will be 27 very soon and is getting...
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