Jamie Dumont

Redundant.

It was the second coffee that woke me up.

It’s been a moment, hasn’t it!

This week has been all about juggling half a dozen projects, and largely at the whims of the weather.

That header is correct.

After getting waylaid building a fence without a single screw or nail — a runaway project that will give one hell of a Builder’s High when it’s done… — I finally managed to sit down and take another pass at the edit of my time photographing Ollie Cooper.

If you’ve forgotten who I am then I don’t blame you, as it’s been a couple of weeks.

You’d be forgiven for not knowing what “Makers” is — my stalled-but-not-quite-at-a-standstill project exploring the work of small, independent crafts people.

Until today jamiedumont.com was where I published my photography, and before that the blog that I wrote as a software developer.

2023 was perhaps the best and simultaneously worst year for my photography.

All photos shot with Leica M10R and either Leica Summilux-M 35 f/1.4 ASPH. or Leica APO-Summicron-M 90 f/2

As an (unashamed) coffee snob, I like good coffee and take a real interest in what makes one brew different from another.

The start line early on Saturday morning was a funny place to be.

I’ve been limping along with my iPhone 7 Plus for a while now.

Surfing is synonymous with Cornwall.

Vidit Bhargava had put together exactly what I was searching for when I Googled “web design colour value for oled black”.

I stumbled across this site when looking for information on how to process and optimise images with Swift.

It was a regular expression that drove me over the edge.

When my wife and I saw some cool little canned cocktails from a company called Moth Drinks in the supermarket we thought it’d be fun to try taking some photos of them.

@will.h.p running over St.

Updated: 04 February 2022 Writing this review made me realise that there were too many niggles with Ghost to continue using it.

I scouted a few locations that would show off the Defender — and Cornwall — to it’s best.

I loved reading about Joe’s bike and his humble attitude towards his epic adventures and incredible performance in world-class ultra events, but it was his approach to training that hooked me.

SKYFALL and SPECTRE sure are an interesting contrast in colour direction techniques!

I’ve got a soft spot for small cabins, both because they are built with a certain lifestyle in mind and often with a deeply honest aesthetic; both of which greatly appeal to me.

We all need a special project that gives us a kick up the arse when we’re not feeling it.

Update — February 2023 Paul removed the article that this story references, along with all his writing from the internet some years back.

After my tutorial a couple of weeks ago about building a membership site with Statamic, which only focussed on how to protect content from non-users, making no distinction between the different “types” of users possible, I’ve since had a few questions abo…

Often the margin between winning and losing in sport can be incredibly small.

A while back just before I left Bikesoup we conducted our first user survey.

Updated: November 2021 I no longer really recommend Statamic for a lot of sites.

Whilst I love reading, I own surprisingly few books.

The gentlemen over at Statamic have just put out an official Wordpress plugin to help developers move their content over to Statamic.

I’m leaving Bikesoup, where I’ve spent the last two years as Lead Developer.

There’s currently a lot of speculation about what Apple’s next iPhone might look like.

There was no build-up, there was no hype, this week Cultured Code released the latest iteration of Things, the much beloved task manager.

I’ve been using a CSS framework called Tachyons for the past 9 months, and I think I’ve fallen…hard.

I recently axed a side project I when it was about 95% done.