New Splash of Colour for the VW

I was playing around with one of the VW camper images from a previous post last night experimenting with changing the colour of the paintwork. Here are the results

Out with the Old and In with the New

New houses seem to be popping up everywhere in Salisbury and over the past 6-8 months I've seen this first hand as a building over the fence from our company was demolished to make way for some new builds.

At various times (no set intervals!) I took a quick snap with the camera on my phone and as the build is nearing completion I thought I'd put them all together...

VW Camper Hybrid

I was enjoying the sun down in Bournemouth the other day when I saw this little beauty parked on the sea front.





I thought at the time that it was a lot more modern (and shorter) than a traditional VW Camper and when chatting about it to a friend he said that he had heard about people converting Suzuki vans in to a modern version of the well loved classic.

Had a quick Google on the subject but could only find this post.

Playing with Colours

After seeing some interesting examples on youtube.com using Photoshop I have been using Paintshop Pro to experiment with changing eye and hair colours in photographs.

Here is a photograph of Angelina Jolie


And here it is again after my changes


Then I had some fun with my own eyes (natural colour is on top left)!

London Photo on Schmap

Received an e-mail a few weeks ago from www.schmap.com to say that one of my old photos on Flickr had been shortlisted for their new London Guide. I allowed them to use it and the received an e-mail over the weekend to say that the guide (including my picture) has now been published online.

Here is the picture that they used.

Bloody Weather!

The walk to work at around 6am this morning wasn't very nice at all. I had a big golfing umbrella but was still getting soaked as the wind was so strong that the rain was near vertical!

I managed to just about reach my work's building when a strong gust of wind totally destroyed my umbrella :-(

Torch that Sofa!

For Christmas, one of the presents I received was a xenon torch - something to keep in the car in case of emergency on these long winter nights.

I had a thought about using the torch with long exposure shots to get different effects. I haven't done many yet but here is a sample taken in my front room.

8 second exposure with torch positioned off centre.


2 second exposure with torch waving around to create a slightly smoky looking image.

I plan to adapt the torch to focus the light through a central point to create a smaller beam that can be used to highlight some objects.