KYH: Visual Pushups
I’ve spent my last couple of lunch breaks watching the brilliant new class over at Kelby Training, “A day with Jay Maisel.” Jay is an American photographer based in New York. In the industry he’s well known for his photo walk workshops, as well as for his straight-talking, true-New-Yorker style. During the class, Scott Kelby [...]
Could you lie your head on the horse, please?
First and foremost: A pox on Starbucks that don't have wifi. It's just not on, people. A man needs his connection to the interwubs. I'm writing this in a Starbucks in Richmond, which, as you might have gathered, doesn't have any wifi. You'll be getting this via the wonderful medium of a tethered N95 (because [...]
Still places left on the Bert Stephani London workshop
I think I’ve mentioned it before, but on the 7th and 8th of September I’ll be attending Bert Stephani‘s lighting workshop, as organised by Callum Winton. Callum sent the following out by email today: The not quite so good news is that of the 25 workshop places, we currently have just 11 people that have [...]
Eye Spy
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 339 A security camera watches the tourists walking along Queen’s Walk under the London Eye.
Curve
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 301 The edge of 1 Sheldon Square in the morning sun. A nice architectural pattern to start your day.
Cold steel and glass
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 298 Buildings around Canada square in London. I took this shot because I liked the feeling of confusion that all the more-or-less identical grids of steel and glass gave; like being lost in a forest of giant, soulless, man-made trees.
Very quickly
Very quick post because I’m supposed to be going out to photograph most of London (this may be an exaggeration; we’ll see) before too long. Of course, it would have helped if I’d actually done some organising of said photo walk; that may cause problems. It’s been a good, if very tiring week. We – [...]
Blue Kingdom
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 294 1 Kingdom Street, Paddington Central, London. I had a few minutes to shoot before the start of caffeine. That’s probably why I left my camera in portrait mode (and the wrong ISO, incidentally) rather than in the vivid saturation mode I [...]
Leaving on a jet plane
A cliché of a title, I know, but it’s late and I’m past being able to think about it. Yes, dear readers, I’m off on my travels again. Tomorrow I’m off to London (rather stupidly I’ve got to fly from Manchester to Gatwick because there’s no train journey that would get me to London from [...]
Strings of pearls
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 176 Taken, as you might be able to tell, next to the London Eye at night. A lucky shot, really; I didn’t have the lens for this to work the way I would have liked, but it’s not bad.
Bong
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 38 Taken as Big Ben was striking midnight to ring in the 8th of February. Of course, the bastards turned off the floodlights just as the chimes began, leading to this image being a damn sight darker than I would have liked. [...]
The Tranquility of Solitude
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 37 There are so many reasons that I should dislike this shot: It’s blurred due to camera shake, it’s noisy due to a high ISO setting, etc., and yet I somehow can’t bring myself to. I took this standing on the south [...]
Vauxhall Sunrise
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 36 Taken during the morning rush hour as the sun was catching the buildings on the east bank of the Thames at Vauxhall Bridge. I need to get a Waterloo Sunset to go with this, of course…
The Lesser Saint
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 35 The arched main doorway of St James the Less church, Westminster. This is a nice shot, but it’s a little too bright (which is why it’s not in colour; shooting in monochrome allowed me to balance out the light better). The [...]
Hurling Shadows
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 34 The doorway to a house, just next to St Paul’s Cathedral, London. I’m getting a bit sick of building photography, or at least of static shots like this – I want to try playing with long exposures in a busy place [...]
Some Bloke Wot I Met
Graham Binns posted a photo: 100 Strangers, Photo #1. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at www.100Strangers.com I wasn’t planning to start on the 100 strangers project this week, even though being in London probably offers the best opportunity. This is Paul. He struck up a conversation with [...]
From Euston, with Love
I'm writing this from the concourse at London Euston, where I'm perched atop my luggage waiting for my train home to Lancaster. I wouldn't have been perched atop what is, let me tell you, a damn uncomfortable bag were it not for the fact that I rather over-prepared for the lack of a Victoria Line [...]
Quite possibly damp
There's a lot of this going on today, so there's a possibility that I may not make it home this afternoon. Virgin trains and the National Rail web service both tell me that trains to Lancaster are running but "subject to delays due to diversions and speed restrictions." I'll quite happily sit on a train [...]
London town
Tonight, I have seen a Brazillian couple playing guitar and drum outside the South Bank Centre, watched jugglers and living statues on Queen's Walk, and rounded the evening off with twenty minutes of pure musical bliss listening to a three-piece reggae band under Charing Cross Bridge. What a great town this is. (I very nearly [...]
To London, with laptop
I'm off to London for a week for worky purposes and as a result I'm currently inhabiting that vaguely exhausted, slightly frantic zone where I keep telling myself that I've packed everything I need and then suddenly discover that in fact I've done anything but. My vital belongings are going with me more out of [...]
