We went to Debbie and Annette’s hugely enjoyable joint birthday party at the weekend and I managed to shoot some photos of lots of old friends partying. I used the compact camera and the light was really difficult so I have rendered them as black and whites so that the image shortcomings look arty. The photos are here.
I shot this pleasing panorama of the Thames today using my iPhone from the balcony of the Tate Modern. This photo is actually made up of several photos shot on the iPhone and then stitched together into a single panoramic photo using software on the iPhone itself – very clever and great fun.
Jane Grant held a party dedicated to drinking margaritas and celebrating her birthday in passing. The food was great and the company delicious. I decided to process the photos from the party as Black and Whites, partly because I am just really into B&W photography at the moment but also because the colour information in photos taken in low light with a compact camera (as these were) is often poor and thus a distraction . The photos are here.
We gathered for a family barbecue at my brother’s flat in Caledonian Road at the weekend. It was also a chance to say goodbye to the place, scene of many a family gathering over recent years, because in a few weeks Chris and his family will be moving on. The photos are here.
I finally got around to sorting and uploading the photos from the trip Isabel and I made to Scotland back in June. On the way there we stopped off in Morecombe for a short visit before starting our holiday in Scotland in Crianlarich where we walked some of the West Highland way before moving on to Loch Lomond.
Then we spent some days with Isabel’s family at Lochgoilhead where, amongst other things, we undertook a marathon Trivial Pursuits contest over several evenings. Finally Isabel and I went on to the wonderful Isle of Arran for a few days before returning home. The photos are here.
Isabel and I spent a very pleasant day wandering around the impressive, and pleasingly empty, Maritime Museum at Greenwhich before getting the boat back to Westminster – the weather and the day was perfect. Here are some photos.
I took a really nice little trip on my brother’s boat back in July and I finally got around to sorting our the photos from the day – so here they are.
I jumped aboard his boat down by the Angel and went thought the long, and rather daunting, tunnel to Kings Cross and then on to Camden Lock. All in all a really pleasant way to spend an afternoon.
We looked after our two nephews, Max and Ronnie, this week and after flying (or rather trying to fly) a kite on the Heath we played with a giant bubble maker. The results were amazingly photogenic – so here are some photos. To see all the photos click here.
This is the second short video from our Scottish trip made with my new Stickpic gadget. This one was shot on the Isle of Arran when Isabel and I hiked up Glen Rosa and up and onto the Saddle separating it from Glen Sannox.
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The Video starts at the high point on the Saddle looking down into Glen Sannox and then there are a couple of clips during our return journey down Glen Rosa.
Just got back two weeks walking in the west of Scotland, we started on the West Highland Way at Crianlarich, went on to Loch Lomond and Lochgoilhead and ended up on the marvellous Isle of Arran.
Of course I took hundreds of photos and will be posting some shortly when I have finished sorting them.
In the meantime here is a very short video I shot as we approached the summit of Ben Lomond. Hiking to the top of the mountain was hard, not least because it was sunnier and hotter than we expected, but we both found the descent the hardest on our tired legs. In the background you can sometimes see Isabel in her orange shirt and also Loch Lomond which had been our starting point three hours previously.
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I shot this video using a wonderful little gizmo called a Stickpic which lets you attach a compact camera to the end of your walking stick – the result is a video that almost seems as if it was shot by an accompanying camera man. Spinning around with the camera, which I do a couple of times in this video including at the summit, produces a really impressive visual effect.
I shot some action photos of my three nephews playing football this weekend, they take it all very seriously. It was an opportunity for me to use my 300mm lens and pretend I was a sports photographer. The photos are here.
I spent a delightful evening with a couple of old friends, I have known John over 30 years and Jo nearly 40 years. We got together to look through John’s collection of posters which included several from the Poster Workshop, a collective that Jo had been a memeber of, but really it was a just a great excuse for a good natter. The conversation was as good as gets. The photos are here.
The weather forecast for Tuesday was “brighter later” so we decied to drive down to Broadstairs, stroll the esplanade, eat fish and chips and then doze on the beach. And it it was indeed brighter later. Photos are here.
Of course one couldn’t relax completely because, as the sign below explains, Broadstairs beach holds all sorts of hidden and worrying perils. Thank god someone did a risk management assessment on it and could put up such a reassuring warning.
