Yes, that’s right, a Tuesday Challenge entry, from me, who hasn’t done one for aaaaaaages.

This weeks challenge to pick your best ever photo may not at first seem much of one, but it really is. Particularly if your nature is a self depricating one like mine. I sat and went through everything in my iPhoto library and reached the end without picking out a single photo. “Blast” I thought. All my photos are rubbish.

So I wen’t for a second pass picking out the almost-best ones and ended up with 27. Better, but now the opposite problem. I’m not sure I’m capable of picking out ‘the best’ anything when it’s my own work.

I got Sarah’s opinion and whittled it down to 17. Now I’m screwed cos I can’t pick from them.

[Edit] Thanks for all the comments helping me choose, both here and on facebook. I’ve now decided to go with this one as my entry for the challenge as it seemed overall the most popular.

But here are the others I was choosing from for those that weren’t here in time to comment:

Read more »

Apologies for the flagrant lack of bloggage since the beginning of may. Life got hectic, and I got lethargic. But anyway, here’s a late post about our trip to Wales in April. Full photo album is on flickr.com

It was our second annual holiday with our friends Owen & Lou. Last year they suggested we went to the Lake District, so this year we decided to take them to the cottage we stayed in last time we were in Wales.

Read more »

I recently changed my main personal email address due to heavy spam. I was pretty gutted cos it’s an address that I really liked and it had been spam free for years. Anyway, the damage was done so I cut it off and made me a new one. I emailed a few friends to let them know the new address and why it had changed.

One friend (a fellow member of our church worship band)  decided that spam free was no way for me to live, and so sent me this amongst others:

FOR JUST £75* A MONTH YOU CAN ADOPT AND SUPPORT YOUR VERY OWN SEAMONKEY, HELPING US TO SUSTAIN DWINDLING WORLDWIDE POPULATIONS OF THIS RAREST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL OF CREATURES.

FEED YOUR OWN SENSE OF SMUG SELF-SATISFACTION AND SIGN UP TODAY FOR JUST £75* A MONTH - IN RETURN YOUR NEWLY ADOPTED SEAMONKEY WILL SEND YOU A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF ITSELF DOING A TWO-HANDED THUMBS-UP GESTURE AND WEARING A PARTY HAT, AS WELL AS WRITING TO YOU TWICE ANNUALLY TO UPDATE YOU ON IT’S SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS IN IT’S NEW HOME AT SEAMONKEYTOWN.

IF YOU WITHDRAW YOUR FUNDING AT ANY TIME, YOUR SEAMONKEY, WHICH TO THIS POINT WILL HAVE BEEN ENJOYING A NEWFOUND QUALITY OF LIFE, WILL BE DRAGGED OUT OF IT’S NEW HOUSE BY IT FEELERS AND UNCEREMONIOUSLY SHOT.

THANKING YOU IN ADVANCE FOR CARING,
YOURS,
THE MAYOR OF SEAMONKEYTOWN

Read more »

Well I finally got my act together before Easter & did some work.

Our good friends Owen & Lou got married last September & I’ve been sitting on the video of it since then (for various reasons, some not my fault…), so I put on my editing hat and produced a DVD for them consisting of the main video:

Plus some DVD extras:

Read more »

Sorry I’ve been so rubbish at posting lately.
My life got seriously busyfor a couple of weeks, and then I went on holiday for 7 days.

But I’m back now and things ought to free up a little.

I’ll write an entry with some photos of the holiday shortly, but for now here’s some piccies of an outdoor gig by a new Eastbourne band ‘Capital’ from Saturday night:

Read more »

The railway services are finally tightening up their recruitment policy:

Mmmm, scones…

Time to try something new, I thought.

There seems to be a little buzz about tilt shifting at the moment, plus I saw this video:

So I thought I’d give it a shot myself.

I’m not skilled enough to do it properly with the camera, but I also didn’t want to just shove my photos though a website processor, so I compromised and did my tiltshifting manually in photoshop.

Here are my first two attempts on photos I took at High & Over while trying to get my vertigo shot for the Tuesday Challenge:

Let me know what you think. I might try my hand at video tiltshifting next.

Monday was my actual birthday, so after a hearty fried breakfast we hopped onto a train headed for London, then walked to the Aquirium:

Which was closed… Read more »

Since I’m celebrating my birthday this weekend, we decided not to go to church this week. Instead we had a nice long lay in and then decided to go out and take the photo for this weeks Tuesday Challenge. The theme this week is ‘Vertigo’. We had to be at least 10m above our subject, so naturally we headed off to Beachy Head:

Read more »