Patients do seem to get a little confused about “blood tests”. Your ‘usual’ blood tests do not test for “everything”. The reason for this is simple. There are so many…
Friday, 22 June 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 25
By
Harry Flashman
Photography is often called “painting with light”, and in many ways that is true. However, “Light” comes in many different colors. This is well understood by those in the optical…
Friday, 01 April 2011 Issue Vol. XIX No. 13
By
Hillary
Dear Hillary, Like many British expat pensioners I am living off the small pension I get from the old country. This is enough for me and my lady as we…
Despite the most recent bailouts, the peripheral European economies should still leave the EuroZone as they should have done three years ago and why the ECB’s LTRO funding mechanism, while…
Friday, 15 June 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 24
By
Harry Flashman
Look at the first and second shots with this week’s column. The first is of a bongo drummer photographed at a function. It is a pleasant enough sharp shot of…
Friday, 01 April 2011 Issue Vol. XIX No. 13
By
Hillary
Dear Hillary, When you read my letter (email) please don’t just discount it as being another of “those” letters from bilked foreigners, but please read it through as this one…
The female Aedes aegypti mosquito, which carries the Dengue virus, is here again. With a vengeance. Dengue fever is at epidemic proportions locally and the change in the weather is…
Friday, 08 June 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 23
By
Harry Flashman
There is an unfortunate idea in many people’s minds that somehow “digital” photography is different from all previous types of photography, and a completely different set of laws now prevail.…
I have touched on this before, but it needs to be looked at again. More and more, we are being asked about the medication we prescribe. Will it mix with…
Friday, 01 June 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 22
By
Harry Flashman
As photography for fun begins to open up for you, it will become obvious that you need to expand your kit. However, camera gear of good quality is never cheap,…
Friday, 25 March 2011 Issue Vol. XIX No. 12
By
Hillary
Dear Hillary, I have been told by someone who has been here a long time that all the girls from the bars have Thai boyfriends who live off their earnings.…