updates

been a bit of a delay in posting as I’ve been sick.  really sick.  stay in bed for 48 hours kind of sick. meh! Just about getting over it now, but now the family are starting to go down with it, which is not good.  Jay is ok-ish for the moment, but both the kidlets are off school and have a high fever.  Hope…

oh sooo true

Shenanigans on the forums again reminded me of this old chestnut..- a parody of a Gilbert and Sullivan song. Tom Holt, from a newsgroup posting dated 1998/03/07 I am the very model of a usenet personality. I intersperse obscenity with tedious banality. Addresses I have plenty of, both genuine and ghosted too, On all the countless newgroups that my drivel is cross-posted to. Your…

Clarkson wisdom

I’ve been reading another Jeremy Clarkson book and one thing jumped out of the page at me. Its something an American policeman said to him when he was trying to load a van in a no loading zone outside a closed airport – so at that time, the no loading thing was meaningless – noone was there. Clarkson suggested the cop use common sense…

forums

Internet forums. You gotta love them. Somehow, no matter how nice the people, how much of a common interest they have, a forum will always end up in a flame war. Its just the way it is. People posting on there forget (or don’t care) that the recipients of their flaming, insults, anger and name calling are actual people too. You wouldn’t have that…

oh man

Just followed a link in an email – was shocked to see how much friendsreunited has gone to the dogs 😦 adverts everywhere, flashing banners, badly laid out compared to how it used to be.  Just goes to show, bigger and commercial is not better.  Its awful, infact, I’m removing my (now very out of date) profile from there forthwith. Note to the new…

weddings

One of the things I really want to do is photograph a wedding.  Not just be a guest and point the camera at people and take nice pics kind of stuff, but actually shoot a wedding, either as an assistant/second shooter or as the main shooter and be in control of the precedings. I love weddings – they’re full of interesting people, all dressed…

film addict

The Holga’s aren’t even here yet and I’m already thinking about what 35mm film camera to get to replace the broken OM10. I think I’ve decided on a couple of old school cheapies – no reason to get flashy with my ambitions as all I really want is to recreate the vintage feel of photos from when I were a lad. Well, that and…

things that irk me about photos

Looking at some pictures on Flickr and other sites, a few things regularly irk me about some “professional” photographers photos. Now, I’m far from being perfect, I’m not a professional photographer, but people, there are some simple things that we all need to watch out for 1. Horizontals The horizon is always horizontal. Unless you’re doing a really wacky obviously not meant to be…

its not a nice feeling

Work is slowing down a bit at the moment.  Well, a lot actually.  So much so that I really wonder how my job is going to carry on more than another few months I listen to the garbage spouted by the politicians around the world about how much better it is since they did all their wonderful intervention and stimulus packages, how things are…

still sick

this is ridiculous – I’ve been sick for about 4 weeks now with a virus that doesnt really do much but doesnt go away either.  Its been a cold, but only for a day, its been a fever for a night, its left me with headaches for a few days and the rest of the time I’ve just felt really below par, so much…