This is the text I didn’t want to write but I knew was coming since the start of the Distant Legacy Expedition: my “copawlot” Yellow crossed the Rainbow Bridge December 26, leaving an empty Diamondback Explorer behind. For the 9th Waypoint of the Distant Legacy Expedition 3308 organizers decided to…

Seven years later history repeats itself. I had to put my companion cat Yellow to sleep, due to PKD, a terrible disease that took her from me in the space of a few months. At 13.26 on the 26 December 2022, I put Yellow to rest. That’s the exact hour…

Exobiology in Elite: Dangerous should now come with the footnote “how to become a space millionaire… fast”. Here are some notes about Exobiology taken while at Waypoint 8 in the Distant Legacy Expedition. One of the good things about the Odyssey expansion of Elite: Dangerous is the presence of planets…

Afraid I might run out of cables for my HP Reverb G2, I decided to buy the Pico 4 as an alternative PCVR headset to run anything from DCS to Elite: Dangerous or Microsoft Flight Simulator. I was in for a surprise! Tethered VR headsets continue to offer the best…

The postcard from Waypoint 7 in The Distant Legacy Expedition is here now, as the space explorers, now divided between platforms, continue the journey towards Phua Brue FL-P e5–0 , in hommage to Toby, the cat. As the HMS Atreides Dawn carries those playing Elite: Dangerous on PC to WayPoint…

The recently announced changes in Elite: Dangerous sever even more the ties between players exploring the game in different platforms. One of the victims is an expedition designed as a tribute to a cat, Toby. Rather unexpectedly, Frontier decided to make Elite: Dangerous even more difficult to explore by players…

An expedition as a tribute to a cat, Toby, the discovery of Odyssey and some experiences with photography in VR mark my return to writing about Elite Dangerous, three years after I last wrote about the simulation. Last time I wrote about Elite was in 2019 and with the release…

On my 2022 return to workshops and photo tours around the area I call the Atlantic Realm I introduce another challenge: photographing moving waves with a smartphone, at noon! Smartphones and computational photography can help make long exposures simple, but if you want to get the best result, you need…

It’s exciting to go back to the same places to recreate with a smartphone shots made before with a SLR, and discover it’s possible to make similar or even better photographs. Since I moved on from a DSLR to a smartphone as my main camera, I’ve visited some of the…