HAPPY NEW YEAR! We have whisked ourselves away to warmer climes and are in Tenerife. Annoyingly for you back in blighty its been about 24 deg today. Went to visit a 1000+ year old ‘Dragon Tree@ today. Anyway…. see you all next week or rather next year.

Click above to see the photos from FIRE on Boxing Day >>

Happy Christams! Really nice time yesterday. I cooked! Massive goose was the centerpeice.

oh and its….

In the past week I’ve taken over 1000 photos. It’s been a week of contrasts!

Sunday, went to Alfie’s 2nd Birthday party. He’s our God Son and he’s ace. He was feeling a little off colour which was a shame, but a good afternoon was had non the less.

Sunday morning I woke up in Newcastle. I went for a stroll. Nice city, took loads of photos but liked this one the best because of all the types of windows – even a trains windows.

Saturday night (and the reason I was up in Newcastle) I was taking photos for Blu Bambu. A huge (1400 capacity) club.

Cool VIP / cocktail bar – Flaming Lamorghini’s rock (photographically!). May see if I can convince someone to make me one at FIRE!

Before going into the club I went for a wander round Newcastle and saw a thing that looked like Nelsons Column that projected huge balls of fire from the top every minute or so. It also made a really strange noise. Should have audio blogged it!

Friday evening I went out for a few scoops, before that I snapped this really odd photo of our cat Jasper

Friday early evening, I was taking some photos of cocktails for Montey’s

Friday day – food & catering photography for an old folks home. Not a bad gig. I got to eat this pancake (along with quite a few of the other ‘props’)

Thursday – much the same as Friday,

Wednesday much the same as that.

My poor old Nikon is having a day off today.

Oh here are the boxing day flyer designs

(click for back print)

I’ve just stuck yellow dots on a map of everywhere that people have had their photos taken wearing a DragonDrop adventure shirts, quite liked it so turned it into a wallpaper type thing. I’ll update as I recieve new shots.

(1024 x 768 wallpaper size)

Ashen Just sent me this pic of himself sporting a rather fine T-Shirt up the hill that’s nackering to walk up (been there done that!) in Prague – Charles Bridge is neatly perched on his left shoulder. Nice one! More DD adventure shirt shots here>>

Watched a great film last night. I know some folk hate the idea of subtitles, but I think restricting oneself to English only films is a shame. Set in Patagonia, Argentina the film lives in wide-open-space landscapes and real locations. A fantastic dog breed ‘Dogo Argentino’ takes a star role. Be sure to watch the extras. The Directors slant on the whole of film making is so refreshing.
Stills/artwork on this site>>

I went to take photos at the launch of a new club in Rotherham last night called Blu Bamboo. They had that bloke off the telly Fran ‘I’m a celebrity, get me out of here’ Cosgrove. Big club, quite busy for a Sunday. I was a bit stressed (because I’d left a vital battery in Harrogate) and in observer (rather than participant) mode but ‘Rothers’, although not displaying anything particularly new or groundbreaking, looked like it might be quite a good place for a night out.

Breaking news:

Next FIRE : We’re having a Boxing Day Special at Nativity*State.
Line up and details to follow..

This site rocks. Alpha and Omega Dub Selector Much fun, shame it can’t be recorded.

last nights / this morning photos:

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Thanks to Matt B and Zebadee for some of these shots.

Got to be one of the best ever. FIRE last night was ace. Just working on the photos now – to follow…