Good morning, Doctor Insomnia
It won't amaze you to know that I'm suffering from typically acute insomnia at the moment. My body's tired – I can feel my eyelids wanting to close, my eyes itching and my limbs becoming ever more leaden – and yet my brain doesn't want to switch off. I close my eyes to sleep but [...]
Some people I met
I've been talking for a long time about the challenge of photographing strangers. Those of you who know me know that the one thing that I'm short on much of the time is self belief. I'd rather be insulted than complimented because normally I find compliments leave too much out (as Bert pointed out at the workshop [...]
Eve and Grace
Picture the scene, if you will: A lovely, sunny, June afternoon. Very sunny, in fact. And on this very sunny afternoon I ended up doing a shoot on a white patio with two kids: one seven year-old and one very cranky baby.
Yeah, I got my arse kicked by the sun, as I’ve said before, but I learned a bunch of things, too, so it worked out well. Next time I won’t let the sun beat me.
Slideshow after the fold. Hope you like ‘em.
Mad ideas
I dented a while back about wanting to try this out some time over the summer. For the link averse, ‘this’ is a video of photographer Clay Enos shooting portraits of random people on the street in front of a piece of white seamless paper. So, in the spirit of JFDI, I’ve decided to give [...]
Alan Pope and his portable Daviey
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 348 In a coffee shop at SFO.
Slightly Camp Jesus
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days, day 346 Jono Bacon demonstrates that he is the messiah, and a slightly camp one at that. (The light is from one of the wall lights in the room that held Ubuntu AllStars; it was too good to miss, placement-wise). Strobist info: Camera-mounted SB-600 in [...]
WWBMD?
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 319 A youngster, sat on his mother’s shoulders, at the anti Prop8 protest at City Hall in Boston.
Rainbow Superhero
Graham Binns posted a photo: This is appearing late because it never turned up in the feed in the first place (my bad). 100 Strangers #2 This is Raya (thank you to her friend Meowy12 for setting my spelling straight). Zie was attending the Anti Prop8 demonstration outside City Hall in Boston today, which I [...]
The thinking man
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 302 Danilo Segan of the Launchpad team prepares to give a lightning talk. This was one of those accidental images that just worked.
Chuckle
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 300 My good friend Matt Revell. He asked me to take a couple of shots of him to use around and about the place; this pretty much sums up his character and why I like him. Strobist info: SB-600 in a LumiQuest [...]
Gone fishin’
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 248 Best viewed large, on black. Yet another one of the many moods of Morecambe bay. Utterly beautiful. This could be anywhere in the world; everyone that I’ve told has been surprised that this was in Morecambe.
Launchpad to be open sourced
Mark Shuttleworth, spaceman, ideas man, Ubuntu founder and fearless leader at Canonical Towers announced yesterday that Launchpad will be open sourced within the next 12 months. This is pretty cool news. With Launchpad, we make a big deal of supporting free and open-source software. Our aim is to provide a central platform through which people [...]
Market Day
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 196 Marked day in Lancaster, shot pretty much from the hip. Not exactly Cartier-Bresson; I half wish that it was raining and that I’d dropped the shutter speed down.
With the whole world in front of her
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 160 This didn’t come out quite the way I wanted, but I still think it’s beautiful.
Mirror, mirror
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 159 Couldn’t get this quite right, really. I was at the wrong angle and the building on the right intrudes a bit, but it’s a good reflection all the same. Also, the sun blew the sky a bit and caused some banding, [...]
Beat
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 158 Back on the 360-odd days wagon (a thousand huzzahs!). This group of Batala drummers were playing at Caton Gala. They were fantastic – and only the guy with the ponytail noticed me. I do wish I’d found a better angle to [...]
Music maker
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 156 Taken on the spur of the moment when the light was falling just right. She’s wearing my hat and playing my guitar, by the way; handy props.
Cool Hacking
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 142 UDS Intrepid, day 4 Mirco Müller hacks in the lobby at UDS Intrepid.
UDS Day 2 Photos
Now with 100% more dancing. Day two photos can be found here.
Virtuoso
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 140 UDS Intrepid, Day 2 Howard Chu plays for the assembled UDSers.
Morning rituals
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 118 I snapped this gent in the centre of Lancaster as he was re-threading his shoe with a lace that had just broken. I never found out how he’d managed to make it work. I also liked the fact that he was [...]
Humph
Humphrey Lyttleton, musician, raconteur, all-round virtuoso, has died. He was a man of immense talent, not to mention his equally immense comic timing. He was one of two people who inspired me to pick up a trumpet (the other was Louis Armstrong). More importantly, he showed me the value of deadpan delivery, of straightfacedness in [...]
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Rest in Peace
From BBC News: British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90… Sir Arthur's vivid – and detailed – descriptions of space shuttles, super-computers and rapid communications systems were enjoyed by millions of readers around the world. He was the author of more than 100 fiction [...]
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 [...]
