The Moon from Earth.
Shot with an Olympus E-P1 with Tamron 500mm SP mirror lens + matched Tamron SP 2x converter, giving an equivalent focal length of 2000mm.

Looking out from the office to flats in the centre of Birmingham.

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,300 times in 2010. That’s about 3 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 60 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 162 posts. There were 48 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 7mb. That’s about 4 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was September 10th with 46 views. The most popular post that day was iPhone apps for journalists (or how to justify your new toy!).

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were twitter.com, facebook.com, flickr.com, iconfactory.com, and 101things.wordpress.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for iphone apps for journalists, best iphone apps for journalists, apps for journalists, iphone apps for reporters, and old polaroid.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

iPhone apps for journalists (or how to justify your new toy!) July 2010

About me and this blog July 2008
2 comments

Carlisle Cathedral in the snow. January 2010

Toy day: The Guillotine March 2009
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New Sony video camara, with interchangable lenses July 2010

Infographic by computer school.org

Bonne nuit en Hambye (time-lapse)

Originally uploaded by photocumbria

Time-lapse video of the skies above Hambye in Normandy.

Recorded over two nights with a Canon 30D. Exposures were 30seconds at f3.5 for the first half of the film and 45 seconds at f4 for the second half.
The images were sequenced and edited in FCP.

Music sourced through a production library.

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The full text of the BBC’s Mark Thompson’s MacTaggart Lecture 2010 as a Wordle.

You can find the original version here …

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Unknown in Glasgow

Originally uploaded by photocumbria

Chap from Glasgow who begged 50p from me.
In return he had to have his photo taken!

Shot on an Olympus E-P1 with 14-14mm lens. Then cropped and corrected in Lightroom.