what summer?

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Here I am, distractedly disjointedly blogging. Perhaps 2008 will see more activity here?

I have no idea.

back to skool

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Been at Hull College learning some new (maybe) stuff. This is a post to test out blogging from Flickr. There is a link to my photostream there in the sidebar. Lets test...

stanley

This a favourite shot of mine, taken with one of Puplet's E-1s at an event we photographed back in June. Looking at it now I can see how another light, something really subtle (reflected through an umbrella?), to bring up the right side of his face and body would transform it.

Details I like are the soft diffuse north light from a tall window out of frame left and the blue room at the back lit with a remotely triggered flash. I would love to go and do it again, but better.

watch the birdie

I have been asked by an old friend if I would shoot his wedding next May. We were in a band together in the late 90s and used to hang out in France doing extreme sports... I wonder if it will be a bit of a rock and roll style event? I expect that the wine and the food and wine will be fantastic if his parents have anything to do with things, I can't wait!

This shot is so you know what to expect C... just stay calm and remember to enjoy the day.

new

Improved? Not really, but here is a first post for a while. Not really back by popular demand, but at least the comments box on this should work better than on my old template... I am thinking about what I should do with the old blog(s). Suggestions welcome.

The photograph was my desktop picture for a while, but now I have this picture of Tobias. Here it is for all to see... who knows where it is?

aeria microcosme

Buy this record. Even better go and see them live and then buy the record. And a copy for your best friend. There are more pictures to see at my Flickr account. Click a picture, then on 'all sizes' for a bigger version. And then buy the album.

like rock and roll

How nice to be back in the Lot, smell the springtime and catch up with a couple of old friends... Respect to Jynx for keeping a legend alive. 374,000km and counting.

last night

...Different city, different country. It was beautiful and tonight we're back in Hull, seemingly in a different world. Thanks Aeria and friends but of course especially my little brother and Paulin. See you soon and I promise I'll be in touch with a few more souvenirs from the evening.

- edit: have been wondering why I didn't burn out the distracting cymbal stands at the bottom right in the first place... this is a new version of the picture now that I am not tired.

panda

Will it still be there? This original Panda, one of Giorgetto Giugiaro's masterpieces, was parked outside 21 rue de fleurance at New Year. I'll look out next week.

the end

of an era... For some the start of a new one. For some, but not all. And it was a strange place to be as a onlooker. A company closing down after years, a sad place to be.

dance bunny, dance

From the cute bunny a couple of days ago to this one, just 30 meters away. According to the YSP website: "The unbounded energy of Large Nijinski on Anvil Point is of a more malevolent nature: a hare performs an insolent, powerful dance on the point of the anvil." Quite.

party

time? Soon then...

spring

It must be here, this bunny rabbit told me. He was eating grass in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park on Saturday, but didn't mind me taking a couple of pictures.

turning japanese

Not that I understand a word of the language though. Which is why seeing this short film at the Lamp, in Japanese, without subtitles, just left me with no choice but to make up my own story. And take some pictures.

rocky

This is The Rocky Nest at the Lamp on Sunday evening. They are fantastic and I took pictures. See you soon for more band pictures! My, myspace is popular these days... packed with greatness even?