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Photography
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11.12.04Step-by-stepStep-by-step illustrated instructions on how to make a spiced banana cake
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02.15.04Look upPhotos of the above - "a menagerie of skies".
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08.04.03Now entering…I've always been interested in the People's Republic of Frestonia. As a kid growing up in West Notting Hill in the seventies and early eighties, I used to have to walk past Freston Road on the way to see the peacocks in the park, and every time would ask my mum to tell me about what happened there. In the early seventies, a group of run-down and condemned houses on the Western edges of scruffy Notting Hill were occupied by squatters. Over time, they and existing residents, numbering about 150 people in total, formed a creative community of like-minded individuals, though ...
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08.02.03Stereo-ereo-ereoInspired by this MeFi thread about a stereo photography technique called the "time space jiggle" (sounds like something from Barbarella) - good examples of the technique here - which basically involves putting the left and right images in an animated gif to make the stereo effect appear in time as well as space. Anyway, I thought I'd have a bash. It's not perfect, but it's better than the seasickness-inducing earlier attempts. I'll try and refine the technique a bit this weekend. Continue Reading...
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02.26.03Far away...in both time and distance: Long beach, BC.Something that will always be characteristic of the west coast of Canada is the sight of logs washed up on the shore. I loved the thought that these huge trunks had been felled and stripped and corraled behind a small boat, floating off on a journey to the mill, when suddenly, a rogue wave set them free. They drift dangerously for weeks, months, years, and then somehow become part of the landscape again, washed up on a quiet beach.
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12.16.02On PhotoboothsThis morning I had to quickly get some passport pictures taken for a security pass. It was one of those "retake your pose again and again and again until you are happy" machines, so I thought I was safe - though I should have remembered the cardinal rules of photo-me booths: the customer will:a) never be happy and b) will always look like a pale, lopsided, spotty, fat, bad-haired version of themselves. Nevertheless... Pose One: Ok, here we go. Hmmm. Pretty OK, but everyone knows you can never use the first pose. That's like running on the first ball. The ...
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10.27.02Blow the windHow do you take a picture of wind? I wandered about with my camera today, watching leaves waltz down the street and cower in doorways, seeing rooftop aerials wobble and bounce precariously and shop awnings billow and swell like sails. But it's all about the movement - no static shot would have captured the buffetting bluster and blow, just as you couldn't capture the raw energy and movement of the wind in a jar held aloft. My mum's parents lived in a house next to a wild heathland golf course on a hill on the edge of Port Erin on ...
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09.22.02Open HouseOnce a year, London flings open the doors to hundreds of privately-owned buildings and closed institutions across the boroughs. P and I headed out early to make the most of the good weather and the lack of queues, and visited the Midland Grand Hotel (St Pancras Chambers) and Marble Arch - both of which I've wanted to get inside for years. The Midland Grand is disused and dusty - though not quite derelict - and on the edge of a major refit, to bring it in line with the new Eurostar terminal which the station it sits on top of ...
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09.12.02Recent photo"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness" -- Chinese proverb.I wanted to send my mum a picture of a candle, and I'm pleased with the way this one came out. It seems so warm, against the blackness around it.I first heard that proverb from a good friend of my parents, my godmother Janet, who died after a long, complicated battle with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma last year. She wasn't a sufferer or a victim. She spent her entire life being outspoken, passionate, opinionated and difficult. She challenged those around her constantly, and I had such enormous respect ...
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07.11.02Lewk upLying on the sofa and watching the sky through enormous windows, one side of the sky was dark and ominously cloudy, the other side bathed in fiery evening light. One storm cloud looked as if it was about to burst with brilliance.
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