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iOS 15 from an autistic perspective

iOS 15 from an autistic perspective

This week’s photos are from Leiden, Netherlands. We visited there summer 2015 on our way to Amsterdam. It was a beautiful quiet city that wasn’t too far from the European Space Agency. I could easily see myself living there if there was a place for open water swimming.

Anxiety train Part 2

Anxiety train Part 2

This week’s photos are from our 2019 trip to Bruges. You can get prints of the photos in this weeks newsletter on my print store or you can tip me on Ko-Fi so I can buy film for my camera. Meh Part 2 I’m sat here a day

Anxiety train! All aboard

Anxiety train! All aboard

Sorry a day late again. I was working on another video and I couldn’t get it finished in time and then I got wrapped up in prep for a big photo job. All this free time over the past year and I’ve not nailed time management 🤦 You can

Mental Health Awareness Week

Mental Health Awareness Week

news It was great to be asked by one of the Merseyside Maritime Museum’s curators to write an article on my experiences of open water swimming and mental health as part of their series for #MentalHealthAwarenesWeek. hello computer This week’s photos are a selection of nice landscapes in

Awareness of my mental health

Awareness of my mental health

You can get prints of the photos in this weeks newsletter on my print store or you can tip me on Ko-Fiso I can buy film for my camera. Hello friend. How are you? I’m… coping. This week has been hard work. Unfortunately too hard for me to write

Inspiration, anxiety and Instagram

Inspiration, anxiety and Instagram

This week’s photos are from the south coast of Iceland. If you can travel there I highly recommend it. You can see a bit of the unpronounceable volcano that erupted in the background of the photo above. Eyjafjallajökull. You can get prints of the photos in this weeks newsletter

Stargazer

An older brother embraces his distressed sibling to comfort them while in a park.

Pansexual Pride

A look at the photography of two people who identify as pansexual for Pansexual Pride

Diverse performers are on stage. One with a walking stick, one in a wheelchair, and one person with Downs Syndrome.

International Day of Persons with Disabilities

A look at the work of disabled photographers from around the world.

A lone figure walks along an empty beach as the tide is out.

Autistic people using photography to communicate

If everyone has a camera, how are autistic people using photography to communicate through photographs of their every day lives? A look at a study on autism, photography and communication. Also featuring Breadth, a project aiming to challenge autism stereotypes.

People place candles on a Trans flag to remember loved ones.

Trans Day of Remembrance

Thinking of the photos we wish we made when we had the time. Remember to make time.

A person with Down's syndrome is contemplative on top of a hill.

My Perspective Photo Competition

Highlighting a photography competition by Downs Syndrome Association. Photography is for all.

A woman holds up a sign saying "Bridges not walls". Bridges is in rainbow colours.

Queer Joy is a Protest

A look at queer work during the last Trump administration

A male bottom. The person is wearing shiny rainbow hot pants.

AI and the Queer Gaze in Photography

AI is good but built upon so many problematic systems. How can queer photographers use it?

HelloComputer

Black and white portrait of a man

My one year anniversary of Long Covid

Avoiding catching Covid-19 was exhausting, but not as exhausting as living with Long Covid.

A watercolour of a puffin

Finally learning how to relax

After years of trying to find ways to relax with video games, I've discovered a different way doing something I never thought I could. Drawing.

Several small boats are stored in a wooded area.

One year of sobriety

ADHD medication meant I had to give up alcohol. What would that mean for me? How hard would it be?

Sunset over the Mersey River, with the Liverpool skyline in the distance.

A nice morning

A wild audio post appears

A misty landscape featuring a faint sun rising. The scene is shrouded in fog.

ADHD medication after one year

After a year taking ADHD medication am I super productive? Have they worked out OK? How are the side effects?

A scene depicting people swimming in a body of water. Birds are flying overhead against a twilight sky.

What 5 years of cold water swimming has done for me

After 5 years of cold water dipping, has it saved me? Cured my anxiety? Made me buy shares in Dryrobe?

A rose gold sky over a body of water as birds fly overhead.

Has 5 years of cold water dipping liberated me from my fears?

After five years of cold water dips am I a fearless functional human being or am I still failing at life?

Autism

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Autistic people using photography to communicate

5 years of Hello Computer

An autistic person travels

Avoiding being overwhelmed by travel

Autistic Burnout again

photography

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February 2025

Wave

Pansexual Pride

International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Autistic people using photography to communicate

non-binary

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Skirts are back

5 years of Hello Computer

Why is sci-fi fashion so binary?

A non-binary person goes to Paris

Being invisibly non-binary