Photos on Patrick Lam

(January and) February: photos post

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Oops, back to 2 years of backlog, though barely. Better do something about that.

December: photos post

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Still less than 2 years of backlog, though January will be slower for sure, with 3 courses of teaching.

November: photos post

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Less procrastination in November, though also no travel, so still a high number of photos processed. Notably, the oldest unprocessed set is now December 2023, so less than 2 years of backlog.

October: photos post

Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In October I was working on my NSERC Discovery proposal, so I may have procrastinated sometimes by processing pictures. I selected way more pictures than in any recent month (1330 versus 846 in July), and the total number of pictures in the pool was 16% higher in July (3883 versus 2642). July did include a large collection of Estonian bird photos (710) and a walk up to Apostolidis (528). This month, on the other hand, I had lots of tiny sets, including in-transit days. Still, there were 13 over-100-picture days. (updated: spreadsheet error)

September: photos post

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

September was down again in terms of number of pictures processed, but I was not at a computer for many days in September. (I wonder if I could correlate the number of travel days with the number of pictures processed). There are only 9GB of new pictures from September, so maybe not adding too much to the backlog. Desperately trying to have less than a two-year picture backlog. Looking at the chronological order, there are some big trips in the backlog, like New Caledonia in November 2023 and the Travers Sabine in February 2024. It is challenging when there is a set of 400 pictures from a day.

August: photos post

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I took some more pictures in August, but not as many as July. I also somehow had less time to process pictures. Plus, there are a couple of sets that I’m not posting here. I don’t know if I dug myself deeper into a hole. Caught up a bit with some May and July photos, as well as some August phohtos. Anyway, less than July but more than June.

Submission re: Amendment to the Devil's Glen Provincial Park Management Plan

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Yay! A submission wholly in support of a government initiative (Ontario) which legitimizes climbing at Devil’s Glen Provincial Park (and hopefully others in the future).

July: photos post

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Managed to do a lot of photos despite two big trips (Olympus, TMB) in July, including a quick turnaround on the bulk of the Olympus photos.

June: photos post

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In June, more travel, fewer photos posted and lots of photos captured. Pictures from Montreal, Wellington, Estonia, Calgary, and barely Seoul.

May: photos post

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Returning to normal service with lots of pictures processed in May.

April: photos post

Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

March was a doozy, so here are the two sets I processed in March, as well as April’s pictures.

February: photos post

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Moving right along, I’ve now posted the Around the Mountain Circuit from 2023, and the next big set is August 2023. I added to the backlog with 2000 pictures from Japan though.

January: photos post

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Finished 2022 photos, but didn’t have much time to process more photos otherwise. One more January 2023 trip to do and then a huge step forwards in time.

December: photos post

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Wow, I had a really active December 2022. Almost done with pictures from that month now.

November: photos post

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This month, I processed 50% more photos than usual (and produced other content as well). Easier to do when not travelling and not actively submitting papers.

October: photos post

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Didn’t process nearly as many photos as in previous months, but got a few more sets in near the end of the month after travel was done.

September: photos post

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

About the same number of photos processed in September as in August, but that includes a doozy of a set from the Petrel Station.

August: photos post

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A more selective August, with fewer sets processed but more pictures.

July: photos post

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Treading water: processed a lot of albums in July, but took about the same number of pictures (in 11 sets) as I processed.

June: photos post

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I sure did process a lot of photos in June. Here they are.

May: photos post

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Happy first day of winter (NZ)! I think I’ll continue with split photos posts.

April: photos post

Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Let’s try something different and separate the photos post from the summary post.