Author: Christian

Not A Thimble

Not A Thimble

Reading Time: 3 minutes If you move in such circles, you may have heard about the stupid fucking furore surrounding Thimbleberry Festival. This is a small underground festival, which as had it’s license pulled and the organiser up on criminal charges for alleged drug issues at the event. Here’s 

River, Abbey, Pylons

River, Abbey, Pylons

Reading Time: 3 minutes Kirkstall is a very interesting area of Leeds, if you spend the time to look around. This is where the river aire flows into the city though a mish mash of old industry, reclaimed nature reserves, and of course the Abbey, once the true gateway 

Knaresborough

Knaresborough

Reading Time: 3 minutes Following on from my recent water pictures in Kirkstall I have had a further play with the neutral density filters and slow shutters in Knaresborough. The first set of these are just off Riverside, under the castle. There’s not as much movement in the water 

Bugs!

Bugs!

Reading Time: 2 minutes Over the last year or so I have played a lot with Macro Photography, particularly flowers, and also (because where there are flowers there are…) bugs! Getting in close with little creatures gives a really different an interesting view on the world we live in, 

Leeds Street Shots

Leeds Street Shots

Reading Time: 2 minutes We went into town the other day, for something to do, to have a look at the Leeds Museum, which opened (in its current form aabout a year ago, and I have never, so far, been). I didn’t really take many pictures in the museum 

Beards Again

Beards Again

Reading Time: 2 minutes So, with somewhat better weather this year, after the horrors of the Tornado of 2009, we’ve just got back from Bearded Theory. This year we’ve had  The King Blues, New Model Army and Dreadzone, plus The Wonder Stuff, Pama International, Neville Staple, Dodgy, Banco De 

Night Trip

Night Trip

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ve taken the Lensbaby with the Plastic Optic, and a new star filter out for an evening walk the other day. Talking to both the world through plastic idea and the Backstreets and Rooftops project this has created some intresting and slightly tripped out images.

South Bank, Mostly

South Bank, Mostly

Reading Time: 3 minutes And again, I have got to go play round London. My love of food lead me again to Borough Market, as is typical, and I decided to walk further along the river this time. I’ve focussed a lot on looking up at the rooftops in 

Plant Portraits

Plant Portraits

Reading Time: 2 minutes I have been reading somewhere (of course, in a few days I have lost the source) a little about Bonsai Portraiture – obviously something very much of a simple Japanese aesthetic. I don’t have any bonsai trees, but I thought I would grab a few 

Backstreets and Rooftops Part 4

Backstreets and Rooftops Part 4

Reading Time: 4 minutes For this final (for now) installment of Backstreets and Rooftops, I took myself deeper into the University Campus. I’ve been very inspired by this project, and hope to gather the absolute best of these (as I know I have posted many shots over these four 

Backstreets and Rooftops Part 3

Backstreets and Rooftops Part 3

Reading Time: 2 minutes Playing some more with the rootop idea, I have gone down into the LS2 and Little Woodhouse area this time – somewhere I have not really explored in so much detail. Theres more of the redbrick here.