As far as social networking goes, flickr is undoubtedly, my all time fave. It’s defiantly the network I’ve spent the most time on. Like so many other flickreenos, photography is something I’ve been ‘into’, boder-line obsessed with, since I was an early teen. Flickr is purpose built for people like us. Within its sprawling archive of billions of photos, people like me… Read more →
Yes, I imagine that all of the extra public speaking the supermarket and now Ikea bosses have been doing recently over the horse meat in our food scandal has left them feeling a little horse. What gets me is – why hasn’t some bright marketing spark from the food or supermarket industries, turned this into a commercial hit by actively marketing horse meat as a… Read more →
These photos are not edited – they are ‘straight out of the camera’. I’d used slide film – Fujichrome Provia 100f and asked a lab to process it through standard C41 process chemicals. The obliged. The results are this strange colour cast – greenish with punchy reds. I like it. It’s called ‘cross processing’ or XPRO for short. A really constructive,… Read more →
Homoeopathy : photo by yuki* Tonight, Eirene and I went for a specialist homoeopathic birthing consultation. Eirene (now 37+ weeks) is a firm believer in homoeopathy and wants to use it to help her through the birthing process. As her birthing partner, I’m going to support her – which ever way she wants to play it. (It’s her gig, at the end of the… Read more →
There are two flavors of the WordPress Content Management System. There’s the wordpress.org self hosted solution – as used for this very blog, and there’s the wordpress.com hosted solution. I’m normally a glass half full kind of guy, but today, I’m going to talk about one of the big disadvantages that a self hosted wordpress set up presents. Self hosties are… Read more →
In my last blog post, I described a project called 100 strangers, and how I’ve embarked on the quest to get photos of 100 strangers. I’m toying with the idea of the same kind of thing, but for 100 acquaintances. Perhaps the moniker “100 friends” may be more appropriate, but that’s already being used by a rather groovy sounding charity thing. So, 100 acquaintances… Read more →
I stumbled across a fascinating sounding project today, so I though I’d give it a go. It’s called 100 strangers. Participants are to approach 100 people and ask if they can take their photo. If they say yes, They’re to engage a little with them and find out about their story – to be published along with their photo. It… Read more →
I’ve just been given my grandad’s old camera. It’s a Voigtländer Vitoret with all the trimmings. A beautiful old thing. Just loaded it up with some ILFORD FP4 black and white film. My grandad apparently saved up for a long time to buy this, and it was his pride and joy. It’s not worth much actual money these days but the… Read more →
Today we went to one of our fave indoor places in Yorkshire. Salts Mill, Saltaire in Shipley. Titus Salt who built the place in the middle of the 1800s was quite an amazing fella. Whilst a lot of his contemporaries were building sweat shop setups, he was putting a lot of effort into building a nice place to work. He… Read more →
The internet is an immense collection of data. It’s getting closer, day by day, to containing the entire sum of everything that is written. ‘Everything’ is available online in one form or another. Some of it you have to pay for in the form of e-books, some of it is free, in the form of most web pages. A further huge raft, is being tirelessly assembled as… Read more →
I had a message from a relative in Ireland – Mrs Hughes, aka Nana that there perhaps wasn’t enough about our family on DragonDrop.org at the moment. Quite right -here’s a family special, blog post! The first thing you might want do is click this link to the Family catagory and bookmark it. Anything I put on DragonDrop to do with family will appear… Read more →
I could quite get used to this forced chillax. I’m not sure for how long, and I do pity those folk who have to stay in bed for weeks on end, but as I’m only 48 hours in, the novelty is still overriding the potential monotony. I’m lucky to have an ace wife, who, only minutes ago has brought me… Read more →
Turns out, I’ve probably got vestibular neuronitis according to Dr. Leech, which is giving me vertigo. It’s an inflamed bit inside my head near the bit that governs balance. This kicked in late yesterday afternoon. Feeling very dizzy, and I’m unable to keep my eyes in a straight line when mobile. Kind of like the effects of having a really… Read more →
Relived part of my childhood today and introduced Jaygo to the joys of model building. So far, built a cockpit and painted a few parts. A fun thing to do for a bit. It reminded me of all the fiddly itsy bitsy hobbies I had as a kid. Wood carving being a biggy for a while, tying flies (the fishing… Read more →
I saw my first snowdrops of the year today. It’s the third earliest sighting I’ve seen of the snowdrop since (DragonDrop.org) records began – the earliest being January the 19th. Typically they’re the first common wild flower, to brave sticking it’s head above the precipice after the dark depths of winter – round these parts. Marking off the seasonal milestones ’till… Read more →
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