I've been my son Felix's personal chauffeur today, which has opened up opportunities left, right and center for adventure. I picked him up from a sleepover he was at last night then, a drop off & pick up combo at a gig…
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300th Cache, a Sight Tower and a visit to Knaresborough
NIKON 1.8 50mm primeBig thanks to Simon J who lent me his prime lense. This lense, thanks to it's fast apateur and human eye perspective qualities. I popped out this morning and shot around 200+ stills with it - 20 or 30 of which are…
Getting thereFurther to my recent posts about my new photography obsession - The Brenizer Method - I'm now at the stage where I feel I'm getting somewhere. This was one of three shoots I did this afternoon -= the others =- meh, but…
The Brenizer MethodThis evening, I've been mostly experimenting with a photographic technique I'd read about called The Brenizer Method , named after the awesome portrait photographer, Ryan Brenizer . Unlike the LOMO analogue alchemy I've…
Libertel 166 BI had at unexpected bonus couple of hours in the sun today. The organiser of a meeting I was due to attend unexpectedly declared that he'd moved the meeting to outside. He'd brought cake as well. Double bonus. That took…
- Lifelogging by Memoto
From conversations I've had, I know that some people are going to love this idea of this, some, hate it. The photographer in me loves it because I've learned that to get a good photo, you often have to take tens,…
- Interior orientation
Someone gave me the heads up on this today : Google Business Photos . In a nutshell, it allows a business to bring Google mapping inside their business premise, as Zweifel & Co. of Germany have done with the wine…
- New Flickr
It's been a remarkable few days for technology. Google's annual developer conference last week revealed yet another Star Trek tech ; "Hot Wording" - a device that constantly listening to you, waiting for you to say…
- Where will Nokia be 5 years from now?
A couple of years ago, Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia made a tough decision. He partnered with Microsoft - his former employer - to deliver the operating system for Nokia's next generation of handsets. For the last two…
- Double X, X-Pro
I got a film back from the lab today, which included the above image. The image is straight out of the camera - no digital trickery. I achieved it by using two techniques - double exposure and cross processing. I shot…
- Cimenagraphs
I've been playing with a new (to me) photo technology called Cinemagraph. There's an native app on the phone I'm running at the moment - a Nokia Lumia 920 with Windows8 - called Cinemagraph. It's great fun. Here's a…
- Pretty colours
I was taken aback by this sight this morning. A Bright pink tree with a rich blue backdrop of a sky. I stopped for a minute and soaked it in. Undoubtedly the best part of the day today (07:00 ish - dog walk round The…
Google Glass - the future?Although not due for public release until 2014, the first few 'Explorer' and 'Reviewer Units' are now out in the wild. The latest google buzz has begun - and somehow, I think this one will fare better than Google Buzz .…
- Mixed Musical Arts
A venue who's day job is a cage MMA fighting arena was taken over by Nokia UK and La Blogothèque last night to host "Lumia Live". The second leg of a tour which marries interesting music with utterly original venues.…
Me circa 1980A couple of weeks ago, I found an old camera : A Kodak Instamatic - with a now defunct 126 film cassette, still inside. I decided to risk wasting a few quid to see if there was anything on it by sending it off to be…