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.

Happy New Year

Well, here we are again on the last day of the current year. This year has seen a lot of ups and downs but in general it has been a good one and I can't believe how quickly it's gone.

The run up to Christmas this year was very hectic with parties, drinks with friends catching up with family etc etc and I've hardly taken any photos at all recently to use on this blog. If I make one New Years resolution then it will be to take more photographs in 2008 and finally sort through the backlog of ones that I've taken in 2007!

I'm sure that by now everyone has had enough turkey but for those that haven't, here's some more.....



Happy new year to everyone and all the best for 2008.

Lightbox Fun

Some pictures courtesy of the homemade light box.

Intel Inside


My Mate Jack!


Laser

The Lions (plus other animals) of Longleat

A month or so a go (still working on that backlog of pics!) a few friends and I decided to go to out for the day to Longleat. Unfortunately the weather was pretty poor but still managed to get a few shots of the various animals from the car as we were driving round.

Mrs Lion



Why the long face Mr Tapir?!



Monkey scratching himself and probably the paintwork on the Range Rover that he was perched on!



Humphrey the Camel!



Monkey mirror!



Wind your neck in Mr Giraffe!

Most Interesting Flickr Photos

With the views of my flickr stream quickly approaching 15,000 I thought I'd have a play with some of my pictures that flickr users find most interesting. Interestingness of a photograph on flickr is calculated by the number of views, number of times added to other users favorites, total comments etc.

Thanks to this post from novemberfive.co.uk I found animoto.com and created some videos featuring my 15 most interesting Flickr pictures.