Author: Christian

Birthday, Christmas, New Site, Things and Stuff

Birthday, Christmas, New Site, Things and Stuff

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve messed about for a couple of months with Jalbum (which is great, but a pain in the arse) and I really cannot handle ftp any more. I am moving this to a wordpress installation, and here it is. I am going to backfill going 

Reindeer

Reindeer

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s not often you get to meet a real reindeer, but we have had some visiting at work this week!

Some final Sunsets for the Year

Some final Sunsets for the Year

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe do love a good sunset here, and as we approach the turn of the year again, here’s just a few more that I have found lying about on the hard drives, in and amongst other sets this year.

Freaky Macro, Prawns and Pumpkins

Freaky Macro, Prawns and Pumpkins

Reading Time: 2 minutesPart of the structure of the fish-eye lens functions as a magnifier, and along with this I have picked up some other magnifying lenses. These are a cheap and ceerful way to get macro photography effects, by acting simply like a magnifying glass in the 

Night Time Panorama

Night Time Panorama

Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust a quick one. had a quick go at stitching together a panorama today, of the view from my office window over campus. I’m quite pleased with how this has turned out.

Treatise on Epistimologies

Treatise on Epistimologies

Reading Time: 3 minutesOnce upon a time there was an epistemology called positivism. This was made up by some French men with beards, who got a bit worried that no one would take them seriously because they were not scientists. They decided that you had to study everything 

Fish Eyes on Hyde Park

Fish Eyes on Hyde Park

Reading Time: 3 minutesI have been playing a little more with the fish eye adapter. We got the chance to visit the old St Marks church in Woodhouse where I again had the same issues as in the London Underground, with lack of light. Some more interesting shots 

Shooting the Moon

Shooting the Moon

Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust a quick one to share this image (after a few attempts) of the moon through my Tamron Zoom lens…

Happy Hallowe’en

Happy Hallowe’en

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHappy Hallowe’en everyone. I hope it’s spooky for you.

Mushroom Season

Mushroom Season

Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes I do think that I am a little odd. I found these mushrooms growing on the edge of campus, and of course just had to get the camera and grovel about in the wet to take photos…

Autumn Colours

Autumn Colours

Reading Time: 2 minutesI took myself round and about Woodhouse Moor for a lunchtime walk, and to try and capture some of the colours of Autumn. Autumn is a funny month, nature displays some of the best colours of the year, but the weather so often fades these 

Textures of Dereliction

Textures of Dereliction

Reading Time: 3 minutesThese are some more images from Hyde Park and the surrounding areas, taken alongside some of my research photos – these are much more an aesthetic project, aiming to capture the micro textuaral details, isolating these from the full scene. Though of course these are