Batman (On Fire)

Posted: Wed 10 November, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Art, Photography | Leave a comment »

via someone on Twitter (I think) I came across this image on Flickr…

Batman on Fire, by Mina Mikhael and Matthew Barhoma

Love it.

Progress – What’s Next? 2010/11

Posted: Sat 6 November, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: 2010/11, Change, Depression, Domestic, Getting Old(er), Introspective, Own Business, Photography, Thoughts, Work-related, Writing | 2 Comments »

So, following on from how (badly) I’ve done in 2009/10, what’re the plans for 2010/11 ?

Honestly, I don’t really know.  I guess the main points can be brought down to :

  • Write more
  • Take more photos
  • Do more websites
  • Get more business
  • Pay stuff off
  • Get off the antidepressants

Other than that, more of my activity will be down to altering life, seeing friends, travelling, doing other odds and sods along the way.

I don’t know what the run-up to 40 will bring, but right now the thing that I do want to do is not stress about it over the next year.

We’ll see.

39

Posted: Fri 5 November, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Domestic, Driving, People, Photography, Travel | Leave a comment »

Today, I is 39.

Today, I is travelling down to Bristol to be at Pixeldiva‘s wedding. A camera will be in attendance too.

Today is a good day.

Water Balloons

Posted: Fri 22 October, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: News, People, Photography | Leave a comment »

From NPR, I love this set of shots of water balloons without the balloons…

Splash (C) Edward Horsford

From the article :

Edward Horsford‘s high-speed photography freezes the spherical innards of water balloons — just as the balloon skins break open, and just before they splash to the floor. He works at night in his garden in London, using flashes to light the action.

Very, very cool.

Photography Bits

Posted: Tue 27 July, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Domestic, NCFE Course, Photography | Leave a comment »

Of late I’ve been trying to get out a bit more with the camera, and fortunately there’ve been a couple of occasions recently where I’ve been able to do so.

The first of these was a couple of weeks ago, a Sunday in Norwich doing some photos for a local event, which went really well. (And that reminds me, I really must sort out those photos this week and send them in)

The second was over the weekend, a couple of hours in one of the local well-regarded plant centres, taking photos in their show garden. There’s the potential for some of the photos to go into their yearly brochure, but we’ll see how that goes.

Tonight is meeting up with the people I did the NCFE Photography course with – hard to believe it’s a year now since that finished – so it’s been a bit of a photoggy week all round.

Photographage

Posted: Sun 11 July, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Norfolk, Own Business, People, Photography, Work-related | Leave a comment »

Today I was out in Norwich, doing some photography for an event. A couple of the people I did the NCFE Photographyt course with were involved in the planning, and had volunteered us to do all the photography. And today was the day.

It was actually really enjoyable – although I’m knackered now, of course – and pretty productive.

I focussed (pardon the pun) on people more than anything, as that’s always my weakest subject. So ad hoc street photography ahoy, and  a fair dollop of wandering around the area, just trying to get the right shots as they came up.

I’ve got about 150 photos out of the event, some of which I’m pleased with, some less so. I know I’ve got a lot of editing to do regardless, as there’s blown-out highlights in lots of them. Still, it’ll keep me busy for the week.

iPhone + D4D

Posted: Wed 9 June, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Geeky, iPhone, Photography, Thoughts | 2 Comments »

Since getting the iPhone a couple of months back, one development has surprised me more than any other. And that’s been the difference in how I use the phone and how D4D™ has changed since I got it.

Despite it’s comparatively crappy camera (bearing in mind that the previous phone had an 8Mp camera compared to this one’s 3Mp-ish) I’m using the camera part of the phone far more than on any other mobile I’ve had, and that has really surprised me. Some of it is, I suppose, the ease of taking photos off it – I primarily just email them to myself, and it’s a painless process, as opposed to that on the previous Sony-Ericsson phones. I don’t really know what the rest of the reasoning is, but whatever it is, it looks like D4D™ is becoming more photographic in nature.

That’s no bad thing of course. It’s just surprising (to me, anyway) that I’ve gone from pretty much all-written to having a noticeable portion of the posts having photos in them.  Strange the way things work out, isn’t it?  I don’t plan for D4D to turn into a full-on photoblog – I’ve got other plans on that score, thanks – but it’s just another change in the evolution of D4D™, I think.

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