Fototastic 2012

As usual I've done a quick recap of 2012 on the fotastastic blog. As you may have noticed, my posts tailed off towards the end of the year. Hoping to find more photo blogging time during 2013!!

Happy belated 2013...

Fototastic 2011

Well, it's the last day of the year again so as usual I've done a quick video recap of the year of 2011 on the fototastic blog.

Happy New Year everyone and I hope you all enjoy seeing in the new year with style ;-)





...See you all in 2012

Camping - Back To Basics

I recently went camping with a group of friends down in Swanage. I took my trusty S2 but the rechargeable batteries which I juiced up before the trip appear to have given up the ghost :(

I therefore, had to rely on my iPhone 4! I haven't taken many camera phone pictures recently as I had an iPhone 3G for 2 years and the camera was really awful so got out the habit of taking quick snaps with the phone. The iPhone 4 is OK during the day and the HD video is pretty good but the camera does struggle in low light and the flash isn't anything to write home about.

Anyway, here is a quick compilation all my iPhone pictures and videos from the weekend.

Light Painting & Out Takes

I enjoy a bit of light painting and within this age of digital photography you can take shot after shot without worrying about the cost of developing etc

Here is a video containing a few light painting and long exposure photographs that I have taken and the large number of out takes created whilst shooting them!

Light Painting & Out Takes from Steve Murrell on Vimeo.

Fototastic 2010

Well, it's nearly Christmas and another year gone by in a flash.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you all and many thanks for your support over the past 12 months. I hope you all enjoy the festive period and look forward to seeing you here again next year.

Like last year I have compiled all of my 2010 posts in to quick video recap.

Malta Wedding

Here is a video compilation of the wedding pictures taken in Malta. They are a mixture of the photos I took and the ones from the professional photographer

Vimeo Video Awards

Received an email from Vimeo with a link to their recent awards.

I especially liked the one below which won the Narrative category, It gives a little insight in to the way we treat modern digital photography and depicts "An entire relationship told through photos in four minutes"

Enjoy...

Thrush from Gabriel Bisset-Smith on Vimeo.

Time Lapse Video

A fantastic time lapse and video compilation that I could not resist sharing.

TimeScapes: Rapture from Tom Lowe @ Timescapes on Vimeo.

Well worth viewing in HD if you have the tech :)

Fototastic 2009

Well, it's the last day of the year (and the decade) so I hope that you have all had a good one and are planning to see in 2010 in style.

Many thanks for your support over the past 12 months and I look forward to seeing you all here again in 2010.

Just as a quick recap, here is a compilation of the 2009 posts all neatly packaged in to a video for your viewing pleasure!






HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all.

Graffiti

Came across some old Facebook Graffiti of mine and noticed that you can now embed the replays. Here are few of my Star Wars inspired graffiti pictures...

Stop Motion Miniatures

Following on from my Life in Miniature post, I stumbled across this stop motion video which I thought was really good.

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

What a Job

Now, this is a job that I'd like to do....

Behind The Scenes - Photoshoot from Chris Benny on Vimeo.

Prague - One Year On

It is almost a year since I celebrated my 30th birthday in Prague with good friends so thought doing something with the pictures was well overdue. I asked everyone to give me a copy of their pictures so I could compile them all and give everyone a copy of all the best ones. I ended up with over 1000 so it has been a bit of a task to sort through them, order and rename.

Hopefully I will have that done soon and will be able to give everyone a copy but in the meantime here is a bit of a photo montage from the weekend. This video is made up of approximately 750 photos which are roughly in the correct order of events.

Clever Stuff

Clever video manipulation from Adobe.

Remembrance Day

Today is Remembrance Day (Veterans Day in the US). A day to remember all those who have lost their lives fighting for our country both in the World Wars and also in modern conflicts. Today also marks the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice signaling the end of the
First World War.

I feel that it is very important for younger generations to acknowledge and appreciate the sacrifices that were made by previous generations to allow us to live as we do today. Only 3 British World War One veterans remain and they are all well in to their hundreds.

Lest We Forget.


Give Generously, as they did.
A video for the Royal British Legion, Poppy Appeal.




Honor to the Fallen Tribute (past and present)





And not forgetting recent conflicts. Whether we agree with our politicians and their motivations for for sending our troops to these wars, the fallen should always be honored and forever remembered.

Cheer Up!

Just goes to show...if you have beer then there's always hope!