the digital home of

Calum Andrew Morrell

Oh my word, this is basic!

I got bored and decided to develop this site from scratch, again. See the About This Website page if you're at all interested in what I'm doing and why. The short version is that I'll be developing features for the website as I create content for it. In other words, it's going to take a long time before it's pretty.

Longer term this site will present my own photographs and photography tuition services along with articles on photography, philosophy, politics, health & mental health, and whatever else I feel like.


Featured Articles


Sampling a few coffees
Put that burnt bitter sludge away, please!

Not all coffee is equal. Even when you have a range of top quality beans to pick from, your taste preferences are going to impact how you feel about each one.


Food & Drink • 12th of November, 2025 baratza, brazil, coffee, columbia, kenya, mexico, peru
Bird, the remake
Dear Cod put that glue away!

Like all good (and bad) remakes of films, taking on a new bird will never be the same experience as any previous birds you've looked after. Comparisons may be natural, but not always useful.


Budgerigar • 10th of November, 2025 bird, birth, budgie, cage, film, loss
TPW: YouTube's mid-roll adverts
For those of you not (increasingly sensibly) using an adblocker.

We may have to put up with advertising in order to gain free content, that doesn't seem entirely unreasonable, but should we be interuppted mid-sentence? Surely there's a better way to both provide free content and make a profit for an organisation as large as Google.


The Problem With • 3rd of November, 2025 advertising, annoying, google, ux, youtube