I wrote an article back in 2003 about listening to the radio which was posted on a long-gone radio-related email list. Since I found it recently, I’ve published it on here, but back in its proper place date-wise. I’m daft like that.
Writing
Photo Chat Vlog – Fuji TW-3 and Half-Frame Photomontage
In season 3, episode 9 of Photo Chat Vlog I spoke about using a Yashica Samurai half-frame camera with expired film, and in this episode I wanted to follow up with some other half-frame experiments with my Fuji TW3. Now this is an interesting camera because first of all it’s a Fuji camera. Now normally […]
Photo Chat Vlog – Yashica Samurai 35mm half frame and Kodacolor VR film
I think it was in season 3, episode 7 of Photo Chat Vlog when I got to the end of the video that I said that there wasn’t a loaded film camera in my life at that time, and that was July this year, 2019. But I can tell you I was quite busy shooting […]
Season’s Greetings!
Feestelike groete! تحية موسمية! Mövsümün salamları! Прывітанне сезона! Поздрави за сезона! ঋতু এর শুভেচ্ছা! Praznik! Salutacions de la temporada Mga Pagbati sa Panahon! Sezónní pozdravy! Cyfarchion y Tymor! Julehilsner! Die Grüße der Jahreszeit! Εποχιακοι ΧΑΙΡΕΤΙΣΜΟΙ! ¡Felices Fiestas! Hooaja tervitused! Denboraldiaren Agurra! سلام فصل! Kauden tervehdys! Salutations de la saison! Beannachtaí an tSéasúir! Saúdos da tempada! […]
An Old Poem
Made for my magazine, “Veeb” sometime in 1994.
The Cardigan
My friend sent me this video of Imogen Heap demonstrating her musical gloves This is a good video and definitely worth watching all the way through. However, I remember Marillion doing something similar many years earlier, and so I looked that up on YouTube and sent that clip back to him for discussion. My mate […]
A Strange Collection Of Nostalgia…
…Which probably won’t mean anything to anyone else in this particular clustering. The Ladybird books factory Crazy by Icehouse Auf Wiedersehen Pet Walking home down Robin Hood’s Walk A Walk In The Black Forest Wytham Woods in autumn ’95 Cherry boiled sweets As I put this post together it seemed silly to just list these […]
Photo Chat Vlog, checking in, Konica Big Mini, double exposures and expired film
I wanted to check in and do a little update on some of my photography activity, because we’re getting over halfway through the year now and though you haven’t seen much here, lots has been going on. I’ve been shooting quite a lot of film, and I started off the year digging out an old […]
Wine Gummies No More
At 10p per roll, Swizzels Wine Gummies were a favourite of mine. Reminiscent of corner shop sweeties of yore, they were an almost-guilt-free lunchtime treat and just the thing to brighten a bleak mid-day hour out of the office. Earlier in the year I noticed they were missing from my regular near-work-supermarket, and figured it […]
Photo Chat Vlog – Pentax Espio and Olympus Accura
It would seem the last few videos on Photo Chat Vlog that have been a bit more philosophical have not been quite so popular, so let’s see if we can get some of our mojo back with some hard talk about pure camera facts. A couple of years ago I did an A and B […]
Top Tips For Climbing Ben Nevis
Somewhat random perhaps for this blog, but having climbed Ben Nevis twice I figured I’d share my top tips as someone who is basically a walker rather than a climber. “Ben Nev” is a challenge and not for the faint hearted, but it is a heck of a climb and one you should tick off […]
Photo Chat Vlog – Feeling Tones
What follows is really some very random thoughts that are an extension to series 3 episode 4 of Photo Chat Vlog. I said in that episode that I didn’t have a favorite picture of the three that I discussed, but on reflection I only realized long after I had finished the recording and put the […]
Nothing Ever Happens
Round about now, 4 years ago, regardless of the difference in time, I was descending from the Tongariro Alpine Crossing in New Zealand and knew nothing of so many of the things that make up my life right now. On a cold, rainy afternoon where it seems as though nothing ever happens, this is a […]
Old Diary Entry
From a time where I wrote the diary on the computer, and then printed it out and stuck it into an actual diary. Really such an odd way of doing things. My camera will no longer focus in the corner of things but that adds something nostalgic to the image anyway. Since I knew the […]
Flettons
In the autumn Saturday afternoon sun We went to look at the demolition of the shops And I saw the houses sitting on the road behind Made of kiss-marked flettons With UPVC and aluminium additions There was something there all of a sudden About your far away house I want to try and get to […]