Flickriver
Flickriver: I’m loving this site. It’s a great way to browse Flickr images without having to deal with the Flickr interface, which for pure, good old-fashioned browsing is a bit on the pants side and too full of distractions. If you’ve half an hour to spare, check it out. You might find something you like.
Random thinkings
In bullet-point form, because I’m not capable of anything else right now. Banshee is being an arse on Karmic on my desktop machine. Can’t figure out why. It freezes up when playing big files (podcasts are particularly affected by this), plays too fast sometimes (so it sounds like I’m fast-forwarding through songs) and other times [...]
Shooting Michelle at La Mola
I mentioned a few posts back that I did a shoot with my friend Michelle whilst we were both at the Canonical Allhands conference at the La Mola. We didn’t have much time – maybe forty minutes for something that I’d usually expect to take a couple of hours over – and the rushing about (not to mention the heat, the humidity and my overwhelming nervousness) meant that I made some rookie mistakes that I shouldn’t have. Then again, that was the whole point of the shoot.
Anyway, three weeks after returning from Spain, and I’ve managed to pare the shoot down to the best sixteen frames that I shot. There were others, but not as good as these, nor as representative of what we did. Michelle was an awesome subject, especially when you consider that she’s never posed for anyone before and was being ordered about by a big, hairy, sweaty Englishman with camera around his neck.
Flickr slideshow below the fold. Hope you enjoy it; I enjoyed making it.
From the ORG – A community photocall
A request comes from Becky Hogge of the Open Rights Group (link): Happy-snappers unite! We need as many people as possible to take photos of stuff that embodies the database state, and the UK’s world-famous surveillance society (wake up! You’ve just walked into it). On 11 October, No2ID and the Open Rights Group will make [...]
Catch-up
Quick note because it’s late and I’m bushed. I’ve done a mass upload of photos to Flickr. I’m still behind with postings, but at least most of August and July are now up there. You can see the full set of things uploaded today by looking at the September mass upload the first tag on [...]
Portfolionation
It’s funny, isn’t it: I first set up this blog to be a place where I talked about my writing. These days it’s more of a place where I talk about my photography. What a twisted web we weave. Two people in the last week have asked me whether I have a photographic portfolio. The [...]
More uploady goodness
Finally getting caught up on my three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008 project; I’ve now passed the half way mark with my postings. Today, I’ve uploaded a mass of photos, mostly from my time on the Broads a couple of weeks back. You can see them all here or in the Flickr set.
Back
Back home from holiday, having spent a week bobbing about in a boat on the Broads. I’m glad to have a normal bed, which doesn’t sway from side to side when people drive past, and a toilet that doesn’t seem to want to spit its contents back at me all the time. On the other [...]
Is there another way?
Dear Lazyweb, I've been taking a lot of photographs for quite a while now. Since the start of the year I've taken nearly 10,000 shots, both good and bad, and I want to organise them. Now, being the hard-drive organiser that I am, I've got everything organised roughly by category (so, 'Events,' 'Holidays,' 'Wildlife' and [...]
Because Justin and Amanda said to
Whilst I was hosting last night's Dead Robots' Society recording (and I've just realised that I've never done a full blog about that subject; I am made of FAIL and will rectify this some time soon) I mentioned my three-hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008 project (I used it as an example of what happens [...]
Spam for Joo
You might have noticed, as your RSS readers break down or your LiveJournal friends page becomes swamped with my posts, that I've imported a bunch of photos from Flickr into my blog. This is a project that I'm going to try and carry on throughout the year. I know that a lot of people do [...]
A quick one
I haven't been posting much here, I know. I've been posting quite a bit on Flickr, of which more anon, though, so feel free to head over there and take a look (I'm working on integrating my Flickr posts with this blog). In the meantime, I thought I'd share an ad that just tickled me: [...]
Post Cricket, sort of
Am horribly tired, but in a nice way. My body is gently reminding me that it has been sat in plastic seats for two days in a row and that it would like to rest now, thanks ever so much. I shall allow it to do so shortly. Cricket was fun, as usual. Sarah and [...]
Bullet points, etc.
I've been saving up a couple of things to post. No, that's a lie. I've been meaning to post about a couple of things but keep finding other things to do. So I'm going to do bullet points instead for the sake of brevity. I might expand upon them later. Flickr is playing silly buggers [...]
Absent minded
I sometimes leave things in the oddest places: No, I don't know why, either. [Addendum] I forgot to move the pen after taking the photo. I'm that good.
Courtesy of Stefan Walters*
Sound advice: * Didn’t know if you’d want linking to, Stef, so I didn’t. Don’t know that you’ll see this, either, but such is life…
Lancaster Evenings
Lancaster Evenings People sometimes ask why I love living in Lancaster (okay, not very often, but for the purposes of this assume they do). That I can get shots like this living here is one reason.
Don’t have time to write a blog entry
The Passage of Time So here’s a photo instead. Observe, digest, ruminate, contemplate at your leisure.
