Another story from the life of a photographer. When I prepared a blog post on the evening of Candlemas for publication the next morning, I found myself unable to break into my own blog. “Looks like a packet loss at your ISP’s network border”, said my web space provider.

Why is it that nudity in Britain is always seen as something devilish, funny or embarrasing, never normal?

A lesson in customer service for British train operators.

Drobo hard disk drive as the perfect solution for photographers. What you must know about its limitations before you buy one. An off-beat review.

How to install Quicken 2004 under Windows 7.

Tonight’s episode of “John Bishop’s Britain” will feature a sketch, in which my work is being used. BBC1, 10:15 p.m., 27 December 11.

I am aware of a problem that prevents some visitors from seeing my online portfolio properly. The problem seems to occur on some machines running Internet Explorer 9 under Windows 7 64-bit.

Symptoms: The individual portfolio pages do not complete loading and never progresses beyond the “loading points” animation. E.g. portraits portfolio.

If you are experiencing this problem, simply enable “compatibility view” by clicking on the icon in the right of the address bar.

Click on the image to see it bigger.

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I noticed this morning that my blog post “Sexy Socks” is now among the all-time ten most read posts on my blog. Perhaps the topic of sexy socks is an undervalued one.

French model Mina Renoir is the cover face for the Winter 2011/12 season at Wolf Kettler Photographer. See the photographs of my winter queen.

Air travel is undoubtedly the most uncivilised form of motion. You hang about at each stage of your journey, everywhere is overcrowded and uncomfortable, and they treat everybody like a criminal.