This astonishing, haunting video is the work of an extraordinary photographic artist, Adam Magyar. There’s a terrific profile of him by Joshua Hammer on Matter. For this video he persuaded the German manufacturer Optronis to lend him one of its $16,000, high-performance industrial video cameras—used in crash tests and robotic-arm studies. The Optronis shoots high-resolution images at astonishing speeds: up to 100,000 frames per second, compared to 24 frames per second in a traditional film camera.

Instead of standing on a platform shooting passengers speeding past him, Magyar now positioned himself inside the moving subway car, recording stationary commuters on the platform as train and camera rolled into the station. Again, the ghost of Einstein permeates these images, and again, he was warping time: Magyar shot the footage at 56 times normal speed, turning 12-second blurs into nearly 12-minute films of excruciating slowness.

Amazing stuff.

Seen in my favourite Copenhagen cafe.

Brancaster Staithe at dusk, originally uploaded by jjn1.

We’re in Norfolk, where we go every year in order to write our Christmas cards. (We discovered years ago that they never get done in the chaos of normal home life.) This afternoon we took a break and went to the Staithe, which we had to ourselves. The tide was out and the whole place was beautifully quiet and deserted, so the only thing to do before the light went completely was to see if an HDR shot was possible. This is it.

Larger size here.

Wan Chai, originally uploaded by jjn1.

Seen in Chinatown this morning.

Intentions, originally uploaded by jjn1.

Bike shelters outside the Gates Building, this afternoon.

Killarney, originally uploaded by jjn1.

Driving from Cork to Kerry this afternoon, the weather cleared and we stopped for a walk in the grounds of Muckross House. Following a path on the promontory into the lake, we suddenly came on this view. Too good to miss. Quality not great (taken with an iPhone4) but as usual the best camera is the one you happen to have with you.

Ken Dodd, Lime Street Station, Liverpool, originally uploaded by jjn1.

The bronze statue of comedian Ken Dodd, Lime Street Station, Liverpool.