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Photography
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11.16.06Embracing the blurI just entered my first submission to a forthcoming issue of JPG magazine. The theme is Embrace the Blur, and I thought this photo - taken at the All England Amateur Latin Championships in Essex earlier this year - fit the bill rather well. If you agree, please vote for it. I'd love to win a lensbaby. The rest of the photos from that (rather Strictly Ballroom-esque) event can be found here.
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11.09.06Ribblehead ViaductWhen we were oop north, we visited Ribblehead Viaduct, which is (I think) Britain's longest viaduct (with 24 spans), part of the famous Settle-Carlisle railway. It's situated slap-bang in the middle of a remote and bleak moor, where the navvies set up camp during the building of the railway. I've wanted to visit ever since primary school, when we learnt a song about the building of that particular railway. Can't find any reference to it online, so in the interests of posterity (hello posterity!), here's the snippet I remember: Twas in the year of 69, they planned to run a train From ...
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10.22.06A Turning TimeActually, I think Richard Wright's poem Close says that September is the turning time, but the way life's been going recently, it's understandable that I'm a wee bit late. Went to Burnham Beeches again yesterday with S, to see whether the leaves had started turning yet. They had - just - but even if the woods weren't stained umber, on a cold, sunny day it was good to get out into the fresh air and play with the camera. I'm especially happy with the shots from yesterday as I was working in 100% manual mode under tricky lighting conditions - bright ...
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10.20.06Making Moo-gnetsSo, when I received my Moo mini cards a couple of weeks back, I was so taken with how they felt and looked and how they worked together as a set, that I didn't want to give them away. I seem to remember saying at the time that they were so sumptuous I wanted to eat them. Ahem. That got me thinking: what if I did something else with them? What if I could use the cards' form, but not for their intended function? So I got to thinking about mounting them, somehow - lining them up and framing a load of ...
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09.01.06More thoughts on Flickr’s Geotagging featureSo, I've been geotagging things on Flickr for a few days now, and I think that +/-90% of my images now have some sort of location attached to them. I'm impressed and excited about how quickly it's been adopted by the community. But in the process of doing this, I've discovered that it doesn't do something I want - or rather, does something a little too well. Basically, it's too specific. I want to be able to be general - or at least less narrow - when geotagging images. Now, I know that's not really the point of geotagging. In theory, ...
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08.29.06Flickr introduces nifty geotagging featureMaps. And Photos. My two big life passions* in one seamless application. Pinch me, I'm dreaming. Christmas came early for me, this year. That's the rest of my week out the window, then. Find out where my photos were taken by browsing my photo map. * Apart from Paul and Pickle, obviously.
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08.01.06On the wallI like the look of this new site, which enables users to create, buy & sell custom wall art from any digital file. I've got a bit of a picture problem at the moment. I want to be able to display (big) photos I've taken, but I also want to change the selection frequently. At the moment, cost (and storage space for the "archives") renders this impractical, but it's something I'm open to ideas about...
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07.31.06Random Headers: Revealed!Since I've implemented a random header at the top of this site, I thought it might be good to list out what the various images in the current array are, since a few people have asked already. So, without further ado, here are a few... Organic apples at Borough Market The struts of Brighton Pier at dusk, taken from the beach Side of a multistorey carpark in Hammersmith, London Stack of folded deckchairs, Brighton beach The rest can be found on this dedicated page, which is also listed permanently in the header nav, above. Let me know if you think there are any which work/don't work ...
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01.12.06Things you don’t see every day on the way to work…I walked past the entrance to the underground this morning and did a massive comedy double-take. Had to go back and check that, yes, I had indeed just seen a giant pair of hairy plums standing chatting in the station. On further investigation (oh alright, I visited the URL printed across his...girth?) it seems that he is a sort of a mascot called (watch out, Google bots, here comes a doozy) Mr Testicles, and apparently he is available for sponsorship. When I read that, I immediately had visions of him (them?) being sponsored to run a marathon. do a bungee jump, swim a ...
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11.12.04Step-by-stepStep-by-step illustrated instructions on how to make a spiced banana cake
