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Last week saw an overlap of two professional interests, as I photographed a conference talk about an industry-specific generative AI solution. (I’ve been working on a generative AI writing project training Large Language Models since April 2023). AI is rarely out of the headlines today and certainly pops up all over my LinkedIn. However, it’s […]
Shooting stars – saluting Alyn Wallace
1st April 2024
by Mark Hawkins
There are some photographers who you admire from afar for years without ever really engaging or connecting. It’s sort of sad, but such is the age we live in. Alyn Wallace was one such photographer for me, a landscape astrophotographer. He has tragically died overseas, aged I’m guessing around his mid-30s, after a complicated pre-existing […]
As I haven’t fed this blog for about half a year, here’s a mishmash post of recent words and images from the first two months of 2024, half cobbled and extrapolated from my latest Instagram posts. Photographs and memory have an inextricably connected relationship, as discussed on these pages before. Photos can serve to cement […]
One sunny Sunday morning in February 2023 I cycled to Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan. This was an extended cycle which I’d been toying with for a while, but now the conditions were just about perfect. The weather was fine and looked reasonably settled. I had enough time to play with. There was an […]
Britain seems like a tiny island when viewed on a global map, although it’s still much larger than most of its near neighbours in Europe. You can forget how diverse it is, become blinkered by your own area of it, if you don’t tend to travel far, especially in recent pandemic-blighted times. Your vision of […]
After the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, there were countless tributes and parades. There were gun salutes in castles, proclamation ceremonies, silences and songs. There were lavish, formal ceremonies, not held in 70 years, new and novel to virtually everyone. They assembled amusingly disjointed bunches of people from across political divides, including […]
7 March 2022 Monday afternoon, standing at improvised kitchen surface desk: kitchen surface, upturned plastic washing-up bowl, cardboard box. Because my back is still sore. Putting on socks isn’t quite as traumatic as it was this time last week, but it’s still a long way from right, despite two recent trips to the chiropractor. The […]
Last month I photographed the Wales national football team’s final group qualification matches for the 2022 World Cup, against Belarus and Belgium. The win and draw determined that Wales would have a home tie in the semi-final of their World Cup play-off against Austria in March 2022. And if they win that match, another home […]
The year of 2021 has been deeply unusual for live events and event photography. When it began in January, the still-raging pandemic meant that most events of any scale were pretty much off the cards. Indoor events were certainly a no-no. Now they are back. By the time summer arrived, things had changed, or were […]
Come on. Just give me a new blog to eat. Do it for me, your old website friend eh? How about it? Some nice fresh content to chew on. It’s been a while and I’m hungry. It doesn’t have to be any good. You don’t have to shyly promote it on social media, half embarrassed […]