Hurrah! Got a mention and some snapshots published on the Collings and Herrin Blog. If you haven’t tried them yet, Andrew Collins’ and Richard Herring’s brand of Humour is not for the sensitive, or easily offended, but I love it. It brightens up many a boring car journey via the gift of the ipod.
Following on from the discovery in the previous post, I’ve decided to furnish my Lubitel 166B with some food. Fujichrome Provia 400x slide film to be precise. It’s been kind of weird shopping for film again for the first time in almost ten years – like I said – feels sort of liberating, and I’m not [...]
Following on from yesterday’s post – it’s been kind of interesting getting a feel for what all this Lomo stuff is about. I don’t know what it is that draws me to the Lomography style exactly… I think it must be the lack of any fixed rules, and the way it captures bits of life [...]
Today, I had a happy accident. Today, I accidentally (re)stumbled across the art of Lomography. Today, I finally found a genuine use for my iPhone camera. Today, I had a ‘Eureka’ moment.
Let me explain…
Photography is an art. In the end, it’s all about the aesthetics. Beautiful photos opportunities rear their heads in the most unlikely [...]
I’ve been asked to post a vid of me playing the full Drag Racer track through (to accompany my last post – Guitar Tutorial – How to Play Drag Racer – The BBC Snooker Theme, and help put it in context), so here’s a more-or-less full version, played far-from-perfectly!
As a kid, I always loved the theme to the BBC snooker coverage. It’s a great little guitar instrumental called Drag Racer, and was written in 1976 by the Doug Wood Band. I enjoy playing it, and on more than one occasion have been asked to show people how to play it themselves. You [...]
As you have probably noticed, the site layout has changed somewhat. I’m still in the throws of sorting it out, so you’ll have to excuse any broken links etc until they’re sorted. Hopefully shouldn’t be too long!
Cheers!
For those who’ve had a look at my previous posts, you may now be interested in giving this a go yourself. If you’re nervous, then don’t worry – it’s not THAT daunting to do. There are some fantastic guides out there.
The main problem with doing this is that there are a lot of different [...]
I’m always the same. I get a device or gadget, and, when I’m getting used to it in the first few weeks, I always go into ‘What can I do with this?’ mode. I’ll see what it can do, even if its things that I’d never use again. I was happily playing around with Ubuntu [...]
Well, well, well… Recently, I decided that I’ve been spending too much time in my office. I really like my iMac, but unfortunately, its basically a one-location machine, and I want to spend more time in other places, like chilling on the sofa with my Wife. I also wanted a portable internet device that [...]
Just a quick note. I’m sat in Cafe Nero chilling out and trying out a new netbook. I’ve got to photograph my Nephew’s wedding today, so getting a few minutes of calm in before the chaos begins! I’m shortly (next day or so) going to put a bit of a report up about the new [...]
…Waiting to get out…!
Babies eh? Who’d have ‘em! Well… us by all accounts, at least in a few months. Today has been a kind of baby-centric day when it comes to posting, so i thought I’d round it off by showing off the little one herself. Before she’s born? Yep!
A few weeks ago, the Wife and I took [...]
Amused me this one. With the baby on the way, it seemed kind of relevant to give people an idea of how it all happened. Thanks to Raquel Coelho and Cassidy Curtis at http://www.otherthings.com/howtobaby/. Got to admire the effort that went in to this – the forward planning SFW by the way [...]
I’ve gone and done it again. I’ve managed four months with not a peep. I should be ashamed etc etc, but to be honest, life has kind of been hotting up recently, with the first addition to our comfy little party of two due in the next few months. That’s right – I’m gonna be [...]
Thought I’d put up a quick entry about this shot I took in Morlais Tunnel near Merthyr Tydfil. It seems to be getting much loving on Flickr sice I posted it yesterday. I was really happy about the way this turned out. Taken with a 30 sec exposure (in a very dark tunnel!), with [...]
I’ve taken the plunge and finally made a long-thought-about move from Epson to Canon for my home printing needs. Previous posts here have journalled the hi-jinks I’ve had trying to get consistant results from the several Epson printers I’ve owned. I’ve always bought Epson printers up until now. I suppose it was a case of [...]
I thought I’d talk about something that I’ve been meaning to mention for a long time now. Back in August 2006, I first happened across a particular band that have grown to be one of my favorites of all time. They’re a not-well-known-enough but brilliant combo from Swansea known as The Storys (and yes, that [...]
This is a shot created using HDR photography. For those who haven’t heard of it, or have heard of it and don’t know what people are jibbering on about, it stands for High Dynamic Range. A standard camera is only capable of capturing a certain range of tones in a single shot. [...]
Have started a nice little photo project today – 100 Strangers. The idea is to approach 100 strangers (not all at once you understand!), and speak to them. In the course of the conversation, you must ask them their name, get to know a bit abbout them, and ask them if they mind [...]
Finally, the official Geocaching.com iPhone app is available on the iPhone App Store. It costs a grand total of £5.99 in the UK ($9.99 in the US). The app promises to be the first to link directly into the Geocaching.com website and bring you real-time cache details based on your current GPS coordinates (unlike the [...]
Just a quick post about a nice piece of software I got for the iPhone today. It’s called RunKeeper, and is an application that uses the iPhones built-in GPS to track you on a run or cycle ride or similar). It works out your distance, average speed, and graphs your elevation, as well as plotting [...]
Recently, with my good friend Sparhawk (www.blackmountainsite.co.uk), I made a visit to Abernant Tunnel near Merthyr. We found the tunnel on an OS map, took a brief glance at it’s eastern end and decided to come back and take a look a week or so later.
Mainly due to geocaching, and the subesquent visit a while back to [...]
After the last post I made, Geocaching.com have announced that they have submitted a Geocaching app to the Apple Appstore. It’s currently awaiting approval, but should be available soon. It will cost $9.99 (probably £5.99 in the UK). It basically does something very similar to iGeocaching, but allows you to do it online, so is [...]
With my relatively recent aquisition of an iPhone (well, last few months anyway), I’ve found that I’ve been accessing www.geocaching.com a fair bit on it whilst out and about.
Those who’ve tried geocaching will probably know that one of the major limiting factors to ‘on-the-go’ caching is accessing the information about each cache. The original idea was [...]
If you’re ever in London near Soho, drop on on the peeps at Hummus Bros in Wardour St. Just finished off a great plate of hummus (humous?) with Maroccan meatballs. I’m not the biggest fan of hummus generally, but this stuff (made on-site) is bloody marvellous! You get a little bowl of chilli sauce [...]
Being at a loose end on a Bank Holiday is not something that happens to me very often. Yesterday, my wife and me were trying to think of ways of making use of the day. We ended up phoning up Mr and Mrs Sparhawk and all piling into his car and heading down [...]
Been meaning to post this for a while, just haven’t got around to it! A while back, the wife and me, along with two very good friends, went on a geocaching day out, and went to find a cache at ‘Chartist’s Cave’ in the Brecon Beacons. I’m always up for finding a cave, and to [...]
I love coffee. I love good Italian-style coffee.
Of a weekend morning, one of my favorite things to do is to sit in a cafe, watching the world go by. Having lived in continental Europe for a bit, I’m always jealous of the way this all seems second nature to them. The cafe culture in the [...]
Just a quick recommendation really – if you need a quick pick-me-up, you’d do worse than to check out failblog.org. Somehow always manages to make me laugh…!
