camtarn

@camtarn.bsky.social

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Edinburgh, UK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿‬ Dabbler in many things: group drumming, music (guitar, keys, drumkit, singing, bit of fiddle), motorbiking, coding, photography, DIY. Bi/queer and polyam. He/him although 'they' is perfectly appropriate too.

A pink haired man in a pink shirt, trans flags painted on his face. He has a snare drum and bass drum strapped around his waist, and a samba leader's whistle around his neck.
A seven string guitar with a smoky semi-transparent finish that fades to glossy black at the edges. In the background is a pedalboard full of colourful (and cheap!) mini pedals.
A closeup of a hot drink station in an office kitchen, with a bag of M&S ground Italian style coffee, a jar of Lidl Gold decaffeinated instant coffee, a bag of unbleaches Clipper teabags, and a bright orange tub of Bisto brand chicken gravy granules.
A stark black and white picture of a very large gantry crane in a warehouse
Jasmine, a fluffy and normally entirely harmless grey longhaired cat, is nesting behind an open door in such a way that only half her face can be seen, with a single eye staring directly at the camera.
Hamlet, with sword
The cast
Guildenstern, as played by me in a tricorn hat with a big blue G on the side
Nate standing beside the just-lit barbecue with a colourful umbrella, with an expression that captures the absurdity of attempting to BBQ in Scotland
Two tiny electronic parts, with an AA battery for scale which dwarfs them in comparison. The part on the left is a USB-C female port, which the cable plugs into. The part on the right is a flexible circuit board which attaches the USB-C port to the phone via a little push-in connector with many miniscule pins. The right part has some pads and cutouts that were obviously meant to be attached to the left part.
Mugenkyo, a group of Scottish taiko drummers, in Queens Hall in Edinburgh. A giant ōdaiko drum sits sideways on a stand at the back of the stage at head height, with one drummer on each side. In front of that, Neil, one of the founders, plays a trio of medium sized okedo drums. Near the front of the stage are five floor standing nagado daiko drums, their players currently kneeling in a stylised pose, facing away from the audience. At the front, Miyuki, the other founder, plays a trio of small shime daiko drums. At the sides of the stage, two of the drummers are dancing with hand fans with large white silks attached to them, which float gracefully on the air.
A view behind a motorcycle headlight from the top down. There are many black-wrappes bundles of wires. At the side, some 3D-printed headlight mounts can be seen, connecting the headlight to the bike frame.
The owner of this account (a middle aged white man with spiked pink hair and glasses) minus the usual beard. Three quarter view, slight smile.
A desk, with a hand drawn diagram of some angled struts, and three black plastic 3D printed objects matching the diagram. A round LED headlight and a battered round plastic box of the same size sit beside the diagram.
A printed paper protractor. It's made out of two sheets of paper for strength, with crudely applied parcel tape connecting the two layers (we didn't have any clear tape!)
A massive tricycle built out of thick chrome tubing and flame-painted fibreglass, with a thick front tyre and two super-wide automotive rear tyres. The rear seats are black leather with red leather flame designs. Three exhausts sprout from the back. On it are the rider, clad in blue jeans, a brown leather jacket, and no helmet; and his pillion, a slim woman in thin trousers, puffy jacket and helmet.
A man with glasses, a beard and pink hair, wearing a black vest with gold pattern, sits on a park bench in the Meadows, a large Edinburgh park. The sun is shining brightly and he is drinking an alcohol free beer from a bottle.
A screenshot of a video editor timeline crowded with video and audio clips spread over multiple tracks. A tiny preview window at the top shows the first video clip: a shot of the National Monument atop Calton Hill, Edinburgh, with 'Calton Hill, 30th April 2025' superimposed on it.
A silohouette in front of a sunset: the dome of the Calton Hill observatory and the top half of a man (me!) holding a small camera (an Insta360) on a very long thin vertical pole.
A very battered pair of motorcycle boots. The leather is scuffed, the stitching is starting to come undone, one of the soles has detached, and the other seems to be on its way.
A screenshot of a video editor with a very crammed timeline. Two separate media bins full of thumbnails are open on the left, showing videos from Camera and from 360. The central pane shows a large crowd around a bonfire at night.
A screenshot of the timeline portion of a video editor, showing a timeline crammed with video clips. A hand-drawn red circle with an exclamation mark next to it highlights a label saying '354 clips'. Only one of the clips is long enough in this zoomed-out view to show a frame preview - this one shows the bright orange flame of a fire sword, and a figure dressed in a white dress.
A head shot of a middle aged white man with bright pink hair, a reddish beard, and large glasses with thin black metal frames. He looks happy and (fairly) neatly groomed.
A video of a motorcycle muffler whose heat shield is missing a bolt. The owner pokes the muffler heat shield causing it to clang loudly against the muffler.
A photo from outside the UK Government office in Edinburgh, showing a forest of pro trans protest signs being held up
A long haired tortoiseshell and grey cat, photographed from above. Her fluff sticks out on both sides, making her look like a perfectly round pom-pom with a cat head sticking out the top.
A bunch of drummers wearing black and red rehearse in a rehearsal room. There are people with djembes, shakers, and then individual bits of drum kits: bass drums, toms and snares.
A few islands, hazy and far away, in the sea
A hill on the shores of a loch, with an island containing an old ruin (maybe a church)
A row of white-painted houses on a harbour (Ullapool)
One small motorboat (maybe a crabbing boat?) and a tiny sailboat.
A view out to sea, with the only land visible covered in heavy, low cloud. A single seagull flies overhead.
Two posts on Tumblr: "genderfluid-druid: hurr hurr I'm a human body hurr hurr I'm gonna solve all my problems using mucus" "genderfluid-druid: "i require more fluids" well what did you do with the fluids I already gave you. hmm? did you make more mucus with them? you made more mucus with them."
Izzy, a Calico-and-grey cat, lies on a bed facing away from the viewer. The photo is taken from down near the tip of her tail, so all the photo shows is a very fluffy tail that expands to an almost spherical fluff ball at the top.
Izzy, a long haired Calico-and-grey cat, lying on a bed on her front facing away from the viewer, with her tail stretched out behind her. The hair on her rump and tail is all fluffed up, giving the impression of a large ball of fur with a small cat head attached to it.
Another angle on the bog monster (a wrinkled dull green/cream tent draped over a tall stand), looming creepily around the corner as you come into the living room. Bonus detail: a very derpy spider cat toy with googly eyes, hanging on the living room door.
A dull green tent that has been draped over a mannequin shaped stand, in at living room. It looks a bit like some sort of cheap horror film shambling bog creature, with identifiable head and shoulders.
A grubby Himalayan motorcycle in front of a sunny view of the Beuly Firth
A motorbike showroom full of very shiny Yamaha bikes
A white van with yellow and red warning strips on the back, towing a motorbike on a trailer. In the background is a motorcycle dealership.
A Royal Enfield Himalayan being strapped to a lightweight motorbike trailer
A photo of the sea from Drumbeg in the sunshine
Ullapool, a seaside village with a large port. A ferry is in dock.
A picture of a sleepy village street on Poolewe, with a hill to the left and sea to the right
A large sign board with a sketch of the nearby hills, and text which summarises to the same as my text
A large board mounted on a rock, which says "Double decker delight" and describes how the nearby peak of Slioch was once 5km high, with an underlying deposit of gneiss covered by sandstone over the course of 200 million years. Most of this sandstone then wore away again, leaving a hill made of gneiss at the bottom with a cap of sandstone on top.
A loch, and in the distance two hills
A selfie of me with fish and chips, with the sea and mountains in the distance
A small green tent in a beautiful sunlit landscape
Applecross Campsite reception. A large sign says 'Visit Applecross'.
A cosy log stove. A fluffy black cat is investigating it and enjoying the heat. A pair of motorcycle boots sit next to the stove.
A very heavily loaded motorbike
Crow, beneath the Illusion of Safety album art creature, imitating its wide open mouth