Author: Christian

Otley

Otley

Reading Time: 2 minutesJust a random day, random wander about Otley. I had a bit of a play with the camera and it’s various settings by the river. It’s taken quite a while to even get close to learning what this can do, even a cheap compact. I’ve 

Solfest

Solfest

Reading Time: 4 minutesAnother visit to Solfest, up near Aspatria on the cumbrian coast. This really is a good event – It gets the right balance between size and scale, being big enough that there’s plenty going on, without being crowded to hell. There’s a 24 hour arena/cafes, 

Unity Day 2008

Unity Day 2008

Reading Time: 2 minutesIts that time of year again, when all the city’s munters and loons congregate on Hyde Park. Hyde Park Unity day began as a community kick back to the 1995 riots in Hyde Park, though over the years it has become bigger and more messy, 

Northern Green Gathering

Northern Green Gathering

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’ve just spent 10 days living in a field. Yes, it’s that time of year again. This year’s Northern Green Gathering has been at the lovely Lime Tree Farm, which I have posted about before. More chilled than the environs of Pontefract last year, but 

Faerie Pixie Wedding

Faerie Pixie Wedding

Reading Time: 2 minutesA more personal set, but I wanted to just post a little more of the beautiful Lime Tree Farm, and a recent wedding we attended in the stone circle. And wo can resist (not even some of the veggie types it seemed) spit roasted spring 

Lime Tree Farm

Lime Tree Farm

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn preparation for Northern Green Gathering this year we have been spending a weekend doing some work at Lime Tree Farm near Ripon. This is a truly lovely site, no longer a working farm, but an event space with a number of fields and a 

Nobody Gets Out Of Here Alive…

Nobody Gets Out Of Here Alive…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’ve just been to see Skindred. They were really, really good. A band to watch.

Woodhouse Walk

Woodhouse Walk

Reading Time: 2 minutesAnother dreary day, save photographically by the beautiful way the light has fallen in the ginnel at the top of Grosvenor Road and on the track aside to Walkers Lane. We walked up through Headingley to the top of The Ridge below Meanwood for this. 

Kirkstall Walk

Kirkstall Walk

Reading Time: 2 minutesTried to take a nice walk up to Kirkstall today, inspired by some very good shots I got previously round the canal, but the weather was very much against me. It actually decided to pelt it down with sleet breifly, which was not particularly lovely. 

Rime and Sunsets

Rime and Sunsets

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’ve had a bit of a cold snap. You could tell this was on the cards from Sunday night. When there’s ice and snow in the air, but no real clouds the sky above Hyde Park takes on this eerie orange glow from the reflected 

Hyde Park Skies

Hyde Park Skies

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor somewhere that in many ways is so scummy, Hyde Park seems to have some wierd charm to it, and this is something that I guess has made up the core of this ‘blog (and the predecessors which have been subsumed into it). I’m not 

Riff Raff Club Shots

Riff Raff Club Shots

Reading Time: 3 minutesMore exploration of the new camera. This is getting fun. I have been playing with the slow sync flash setting which uses a longer exposue, to let in the light of the background and a flash to freeze the subject in the forground. I instantly