More Yellow
Now Showing
Until November 1st, I have four pictures on show in LIP annual exhibition. [link to pictures removed]. This picture was taken nearby.
Men in Shirts
Lunch time in Docklands. It seemed like a separate city. Not different, but taller and more modern and not much trace of docks.
Ladder in a Ladder, Ladder Got Lost
I suppose if you walk around for a long enough your are going to see a ladder reflecting in a similar way to one you saw recently.
The yellow ladder from the previous entry fell into a mute blog a couple of days ago.
Trafalgar Square
The front of the National Gallery has recently been given a clear view from Trafalgar Square by pedestrianisation, so now they cover part of its frontage with a big yellow advert for HP disguised as infotainment about van Gogh and his yellow chair painting. I’ve no idea what they are doing behind the hoarding but I suppose it could have been worse. I like yellow and it provided me with this and a few other photo opportunities. Sorry I missed the van Gogh parts.
Learning to Blink
Bell’s Palsy is supposed to be a diagnosis of exclusion but reading this trumpeter’s description convinced me.
I’m finding it quite disconcerting to look in a mirror, attempt to raise both eyebrows and see only one of them move. The numbness on one side of my mouth is similar to the way it feels when a dental anesthetic is wearing off, so annoying when drinking. I can only manage half a smile. The worse thing is having to protect my right eye. It’s not blinking so I have to remember to do some “manual” closing to stop it drying out.
It’s making me think about all the stuff I do automatically. I like to think that I often take photographs without thinking too much but it’s nowhere near as unthinking as blinking.
Cool Dog on the Bus
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Just read a thought provoking article (People, Places, Things) by Kevin Bjorke. I’m not sure why it made me post this dog picture but I’m not about to start captioning pictures with type of camera and other technical details. Kevin will know that this is a digital shot. I managed to get 6 pictures but the bus was moving more than the dog.
Dependency on a Currency
No waffling about technology today just a picture from this morning.
Someone’s gotta do it
I bought a 0.42x converter at a camera fair. It didn’t have the right adapter for my fuji so I just held it in front of the lens. It and the bus window were pretty cruddy, so after defishing the shot with panotools I thought I’d add to the low quality look and ran a lomo action on it. The lomo action blew out too much detail for my liking so I backed up a bit in the history. I’m fairly sure the action came from here, but I can’t connect to the site to check at the moment.
The converter is destined to sit on an old 6x9cm folder and is part of the ongoing investigation into finding cheap ways to do medium format panoramas.
More Stretching
This is another picture stitched from three digital pictures. You can also see a bigger version.
Stretching Exercises
In the process of putting the cyclops back together the spring broke. I’m leaving it until I’ve got the energy to tackle it again. In the meantime I’ve been learning how to use PTMac / Panotools and joining up 2 or 3 shots from the digital. I bought a 2-way hot-shoe spirit level to assist, which may have the side effect of straigtening up my hip shooting. Obviously I forgot to use it on this picture.
