On this trip, I spent about a week and a half in Manchester, traveling to Leicestershire on the weekend, then to Bristol afterwards. From there, I flew to Cyprus for the EG Symposium on Rendering, then back to London for a day. The EGSR page is linked here.
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My first stop was Manchester, where I spent about a
week on a new research project with the university there.
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Nick and Mashhuda
Mashhuda is the main person I'm working with, and she
and her husband Nick put me up (put up with me) in their
home during my stay.
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Doing a little shopping for a home-cooked Indian meal.
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Mashhuda's house backs up onto a lovely wood, and we
took the scenic route to work this morning.
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An HDR photo of the old part of the university.
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Here is the computer science building where we were
actually working, or at least pretending to.
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On the weekend, we drove to Leicester, where Mashhuda
and Nick visited her parents while I visited my friend
John and his family.
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John lives in the little village of Frisby on the Wreake.
The Wreake is a kind of creek the other side of the
tracks from his house.
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Here is a panorama I took of Frisby Lake.
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The next morning, John took me for a nice walk to the
neighboring villages of Leicestershire along the Wreake.
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There were a fair few gates such as this separating
the pastures.
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Hoby Church
Each village had its own little church, which made it
easy to locate from a distance.
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Here is the view of the Hoby church on the path to Rotherby.
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Rotherby's church pointing the way.
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Rotherby Church
And here it is.
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Back in Manchester, we spent a good part of the day
photographing various buildings for our inverse lighting
project.
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Mashhuda is actually a bit frustrated in this photo,
trying to get her USB port to recognize my memory stick.
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We had a nice dinner the last night with some of Mashhuda's
friends.
Left to right: Alison, Jon, Mashhuda, James, Allen, Nick, John
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