Photography

I’m learning about photography…so, I’m going to add useful resources and thoughts to this category.


During my recent trip to Abu Dhabi, I had one of those moments where you see something quite ludicrous and yet strangely compelling. Actually, all told, it was not a little unimpressive. The Yas Marina Hotel on Yas Island is a building which changes colour during the evening, thanks to an exterior skin peppered with LEDs…oh, and inside it looks like an iPod!

Not much else around it, but the hotel does sit over the top of the track where Abu Dhabi hosted the recent Grand Prix:


More photos on Flickr.


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In one week’s time I, and 11 colleagues from LBi will be travelling to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates to work with Etihad, the national carrier…should be a fun trip, and I’m going to document it on my fresh new photoblog. I’m aiming for a picture a day but we’ll see…there’s going to be plenty of work to do as well…

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Ah, Christmas…seems so long ago now. Especially after a working week at LBi. We headed down to Fifehead Magdalen in Dorset to spend some time amongst the cows and horses – and enjoy some fine food along the way. I managed to squeeze in some photography and some guitar amongst other things. Fab…

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Camera lust

Well I wish it hadn’t happened, but it has. The other day at work I was checking out the prices for full frame Canon cameras and had started getting a little teeny bit interested in the Canon D5 Mark I – especially now that Amazon have knocked £600 from the price.

Then someone showed me this piece of video, shot by Vincent Laforet with the upcoming Mark II D5. Stunningly good looking, but the camera is £2000….slightly out of my range but techno-lust does strange things to a person…

Damn. Want one.

UPDATE: another piece of video here. Possibly more realistic (and more shaky :)

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted to this blog, and it’s time I got writing again. No excuses for why I’ve been neglecting it, but I guess I kind of fell out of love with the things I used to write about. A little bit of boredom. Malaise even.

So while I’ve been away, some of the things I’ve been up to:

:: I spent a weekend near Toulouse, at Le Chateaux de St Martory, at the wedding of two old friends

:: had a fab weekend at the End of the Road festival, in Dorset. Some pics of a semi-wet, but mostly lovely weekend in the country.

:: I became a semi-pro photographer, by taking photos at one wedding and one party full of people interested in luxury bathroom fittings. I tell ya, it was surely a rock’n'roll evening.

:: I’ve been working on some interesting projects for LBi, and getting involved in lots of other work too. Nice to be back in the East though.

So, more to folllow…

Polperro, CornwallI spent Easter at an amazingly quiet, relaxed seaside town in Cornwall – called Polperro. Fantastic atmosphere, friendly people – and of course some great scenic walks along the coastal path.

More photos from the trip here.

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River Thames

“the eerie and inexplicable sadness that lives at the heart of certain works of art”

Nick Cave, summing up what he looks for in music. A cool Guardian piece on this ‘feeling’. Wow. Inexplicable sadness seems to be a theme that’s cropping up a lot these days…and this picture gives me the same feeling, for some reason…

Hampton Court

Hampton CourtI had a fun wander around Hampton Court at the weekend. I don’t normally go for the whole royalty thing, but I was struck by how the whole place smelled of power. Interesting that on the way into the King’s Chambers, the visitor has to wander past the King’s weapon collection. What does that tell you? Hmmm…The gardens were nice though…More pictures on my Flickr stream.

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St Kilda

Just back from a trip to Melbourne, Australia (with a short detour to visit friends in Adelaide). What a place. Stunning scenery, great food and wine, and brilliant people. Oh, and lifestyle coming out of its pores. Can’t wait to visit again.
Lots of pictures on Flickr.
 

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Clissold Park, Stoke NewingtonI wandered down to Clissold Park, at the far end of Stoke Newington’s Church Street yesterday – and found myself in the middle of a beautiful London winter evening. Cold, yes, but it was a great day to be wrapped up and wandering past fairy-lit pubs.BTW, if you click through the link to the Park, you’ll be taken to the Multimap web site, where you can now explore London (or any other place for that matter) through the eyes of Wikipedia’s geocoded content… 

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