London Street project Mid March

I've recently completed a photo project in London (6th-11th March) shooting street style photos. Taking pictures of people in a street environment. I'm hoping to produce a book out of the resulting images and if I get the chance make an exhibition too at some point.

Hi whats up people. I've been starting a new project/having a play with something new. I'm using a special type of neutral density filter which has a factor of 1000. Meaning that you have adjust the exposure by 10 stops. Hopefully this will be an ongoing project of different places and times of year.

This filter is made by B+W and I use the filter with my Mamiya RB67 camera and my Toyo 5x4 large format camera. I just think that the larger format lends itself to this kind effect that the filter gives.

The one draw back is that it gives a yellow cast to colour images whether its C41, E6 or digital. So you have to adjust the colour casts if you want normal colours. Some times the colour cast adds to the image. Its not strong so it is easily adjustable.

Should get into this more

I'm not sure why I've never got into a routine of doing written blogs, partly because I never remember or get round to doing one orrrr that I just think theres nothing interesting worth blogging about.

So maybe I should start doing some cross over stuff, like blogging about some of my favourite images that I've recently posted on deviant art or any new videos that I've posted on youtube. Thats probably better than trying to create separate original content for 3 different websites.

Anyway, I'll try to blog more about things in general and what I've posted online.

Hopefully more photo and video stuff here relatively shortly

On the 28/11/2009 I went to a Deviant art meet up in Birmingham.

We met at New Street station and looked round the German Christmas Market and then went to a pub for the rest of the day. I had fun there and the people there were great to be around.

Evils in the world

I keep seeing on various media like news programs and documentaries various evils that have happened or are still going on and I just don't believe that people can do such terrible things.

Evil things like forcing women and even children into sexual slavery, genocide, forced (slave) labour, rape and people being attacked and seriously injured, crippled or murdered for seemingly little reason.

I feel that there should be more done to combat it, more to stop the perpetrators and to help the victims both on a personal level and on a wider social and global level. I just feel a responsibility to help these victims and not just ignore what is happening. To exact justice.

I am one of many who think "how can I help, I am but one person", So I just would like to know how can I make a difference, how can I make a difference in a persons life, how can I help bring these evil people who do terrible things to justice.

Hey guys, just showing a couple of street images that I've recently

taken around my local area with my recently acquired digital camera.

The first image is from an empty warehouse building. I liked this one

because of the symmetry of the windows and that they've been

smashed out and bared up. Making it look like part of a prison.

This second photo is pretty self explanatory. Trollies from

the local super market left in a disabled space. It was just funny to me

because how can trollies be disabled.

Work disgruntlement

You know how you have those days at work where you think "I cant be bothered today" or the days where you are really under-stimulated and you gradually get more annoyed and agitated.

Well this is happening to me. My job is a boring repetitive job and I become frustrated and other various things annoy the hell out of me. I'm feeling like the guy at your office that you wouldn't let look after the pens, the guy you wouldn't trust with the simplest of tasks.

Anyway, today, it was fairly near the end of the day just before 6pm. All the work that had to be done was done and now we were just clearing up, getting things put away and basically getting things ready for Monday  morning. Well me and 2 other people that I share a lift with were just saying how we hadn't got a written copy of our contracts. 

Then the boss comes up and gives me a job to do which I go and start doing. This in it self doesn't hack me off, the thing that does is that the boss and the two people I was talking with were still standing there talking. I was the only one who was told to do something. Why should I bust my arse while you are still chatting? Send me away so you can criticise me, bad mouth me behind my back. This is what it could look like, send one person away and you keep talking. I felt excluded and humiliated in a small way because of this.