Author: Christian

A Bit More Burlesque

A Bit More Burlesque

Reading Time: 3 minutes Burlesque, as we know is big stuff at the moment, and for my friend Michelle’s wedding we were treated to some more. Darn Shame. This was at the Alea Casino down on Leeds Dock, which hires out a function space. It’s quite nice, but in 

Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman

Reading Time: < 1 minutes I am not really, so I like to say, a man for having heroes. However, in a very academic manner, one person for whom I have a lot of respect is Emiritus Professor Zygmunt Bauman. The School of Sociology has just run a conference to 

Simulacra

Simulacra

Reading Time: < 1 minutes The first album recording from Suburban Acid Saturation. A mix of hard dance, hard techno and new acid techno. This was produced mainly on the PC, using Acid, with Live Loops and Guitars. You can listen to the album here: > > Kit List: Studio 

Flower Studies

Flower Studies

Reading Time: 4 minutes Over the year I have been exprerimenting quite a lot with flowers. I started this last year with the Tamron Macro Lens, but since Christmas I have been doing a lot of work with the Lensbaby Composer and the Macro Magnifying lenses, inspired by the 

Todstock and Tequila Breakfasts

Todstock and Tequila Breakfasts

Reading Time: 3 minutes So who knew that Todmorden had a festival. Actually, every Hick Town has a festival nowadays, so it’s not really big news. But we had to investigate… Given the grand idea to meet in Wetherspoons for a fry-up at 8am, which then degenerated to tequilas 

Meanwood Water

Meanwood Water

Reading Time: 3 minutes After having a go in Kirkstall and Knaresborough recently, I wanted to try some more long exposure water shots. We are lucky in Leeds to be one of the greenest UK cities (not that living in Hyde Park feels like this at times) and Meanwood 

On The Road

On The Road

Reading Time: 3 minutes We went to Opera in The Park, which was brilliant, and had me in tears when they opened with O Fortuna! from Carmina Burana. Much as I complain at times about Leeds Shitty Council wasting money, I think there are worse things they could spend 

Dark Works

Dark Works

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Just a quick post to show an expreiment. I read a nice tutorial ecently in Practical Photography about creating an image in the style of a Dutch Oil Painting and thoguht I would give it a go. The random skull, which I have no idea 

Kirkstall Festival 2010

Kirkstall Festival 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutes A little more restrained this year than the 150 or so pictures I got when massively excited by my new camera last year), here’s a few from Kirkstall Festival this year. Kirkstall Festival is a bit of a mixed bag. It has a masive funfair, 

Roundhay Park

Roundhay Park

Reading Time: 2 minutes After the food festival the other day it seems I am back in Roundhay again. It’s easy to forget how much Roundhay Park has to offer. It is quite huge, over 700 acres in total. After being under various ownerships over centuries, Roundhay park was 

Emily’s Party

Emily’s Party

Reading Time: 3 minutes So one of my good friends has had a little birthday shindig, and I have been along capturing the event, and also roped into sound engineering. As seems to be the thing at the moment, we had a bit of Burlesque. This of course, I 

Foodie Festival

Foodie Festival

Reading Time: 2 minutes Well, this was just one of the random things. My Partner answered one of those random radio phone in call outs and got some tickets to the Leeds Food Festival in Roundhay Park. I love food, I love nice food, but this is something that