Pictures Taken on the Way to Somewhere Else

I used the Veriwide for some real work for the first time yesterday (shooting interiors). This was taken with the digital on the way home.

It’s the Colour Man!

This conversation with Kevin Bjorke reminded me about two great books that I haven’t looked at in a long time. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain will get you over the blocks that most people have about their ability to produce a likeness when drawing. Understanding Comics is a great read on art, graphics and the psychology of sequential art even if you’re not interested in comics.

Twins

I’ve added a new gallery to my main photography page, Twins, which was made with Jawed Ashraf.

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RGB, Y

I’m still struggling through Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Biography. Maybe I should have waited for the one with pictures.

Ticket, Got a Ticket

Sorry this file is a bit big. The jpeg compression was really visible in the red.

I’ve also put a new stitched panorama here.

Corner

This is the same corner that I used for the front of my first book.

Medicine Balls

I discovered Smoke today. It fell open on an article called Sham City about Paternoster Square - “London’s new architectural theme-park” - which was making me laugh. When I looked at the back and realised it was only £2 (twosquid, blimey!) I thought I’d better buy it. It’s a shame all the pictures are black and white but for 50 pages you can’t grumble can ya guv’nor (People don’t seem to call London ‘The Smoke’ anymore, do they?).

Water Carrier

For regular viewers, here is my current favourite pinhole pic from the recent batch. For non-regular viewers, sorry - you missed it - the pinhole page is here.

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.