World Pinhole Day

Yesterday was World Pinhole Day which started disastrously when my camera broke at the end of the first roll of film. Fortunately I managed to find a shop that sold Superglue on a Sunday and the repair held so I shot another 4 or 5 rolls. I then ran into Tom who said he first recognised me by the camera I was holding. He was on his way to buy some 5×4 so I suggested he continue the madness by joining me on a wander with some members from the Topica Streetphoto list. I’m not currently subscribed to that and this picture wasn’t taken with the pinhole.

Bill Brandt

I can recommend the Bill Brandt exhibition at the V&A (until 25th July). It made me feel like I’d overlooked him even though his book ‘Shadow of Light’ is probably the photographic book I’ve owned the longest.

This picture has nothing to do with Bill Brandt except that it was taken inside the V&A.

Purple Links

This is another picture from a relatively intensive week of photography. Day 4 included walking an audio tour, Linked, which revolves around the M11 link road development. It’s an interesting area but unfortunately I had a dodgy headset with a weak battery and it took much longer to complete than it was supposed to.

Meanwhile, I’m artist of the week on The Lebanon.com.

Day One

This is the first picture that I took on the first day of a five day exercise. More later.

The Long-winded Way to Blog

This usage of ‘Recorded Delivery’ stickers as a form of graffiti is fairly common in London. I suppose the top one here might be serving some other, practical function but generally it always seems like a bit of cheat to me. Certainly cheap anyway. I see plain paper sticker art less often but I’ll keep an eye out for it next week.

I’ve transferred all the old entries from GreyMatter and this is the first test using Movable Type.