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Cold Winter Campus all lit up

Cold Winter Campus all lit up

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s getting towards the end of the year, and with my birthday and Christmas looming, the day job is done until January. I always like the feel of the Uiversity Campus in winter, the Christmas Tree, the Lights – I thought I’d just bring my …

Leeds at Night

Leeds at Night

Reading Time: 2 minutesJust a little photoset post really. It’s rare I end up with my camera in the City Centre at night, to be honest it’s rare I end up in the city centre at night, so it was nice to be able to get the Canon …

Shooting Strangers

Shooting Strangers

Reading Time: 8 minutes…photographing a stranger can constitute harassment. In general, harassment requires repetition. There are some cases where it may not – for example if I were to I sneak up behind someone at ground level to capture an ‘upskirt’ this could clearly and rightly be defined as sexual harassment. But the defining factor here is that the person concerned would have an expectation that, although they are in public, the public do not have a reasonable right to take picture of their gusset…

Autumn Orange

Autumn Orange

Reading Time: 3 minutesI thought I would just post this pretty extensive set, taken from a recent walk up the top end of Meanwood Woods a few days ago. For early November, the amount of green still present, and the warth of the light was pretty spectacular, showing …

Photocamp 2013

Photocamp 2013

Reading Time: 6 minutesIt’s been a busy weekend here. I must confess I was a little apprehensive about all this. Not really by choice, but simply because I haven’t really found many people as obsessed as I am with taking pictures , much of my photography has been …

Olympus Trip 35 and Tri-X 400

Olympus Trip 35 and Tri-X 400

Reading Time: 2 minutesAnother Random film and Camera combination – this is the Olympus Trip, loaded with Kodak Tri-X. This is quite a classic street photography set up, and so here’s some in that style, mostly in London.

Light Night 2013

Light Night 2013

Reading Time: 2 minutesJust a quick few from light night this year. Not feeling overly inspired to say much, but it’s kind of a tradition to at least post a few…

The Wedding (Revisited)

The Wedding (Revisited)

Reading Time: 2 minutesI also shot a bit of film at the wedding I have talked about in my last post – largely for amusement and experimentation. I think these have actually come out very well – but I can’t imagine shooting a whole wedding event to film, …

Thwaite Mills and Post Industrial Regeneration

Thwaite Mills and Post Industrial Regeneration

Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve been deveoping quite an interest in photographing some of Leeds Industrial Heritage, and of course we have a fair set of museums which are quite good for entertaining small children. One of these, though a fair way out and only open occasionally is Thwaite …

The Wedding

The Wedding

Reading Time: 4 minutes‘Don’t do it’, they all say… ‘Shooting a wedding for a fried or family member is a baaaaad idea.’ Of course many photographers would love the chance to jump in and shoot a wedding – for may it is seen as a surefire way to …

Edale (and the odd bit of Sheffield)

Edale (and the odd bit of Sheffield)

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’ve been over the Edale in Derbyshire for the weekend, for my good friend Derek’s 40th Birthday. This has been quite an experience on many levels, mostly because this has been the first time taking my son away overnight solely by myself as his mum …

Kruidvat Keroppi

Kruidvat Keroppi

Reading Time: 2 minutesPardon? I appreciate this sounds like some utterance one might expect from a frog… Which I guess is fitting as Keroppi is in fact a frog and this relates to a quirky little Keroppi branded camera. I loaded this with Kruidvat 200 film – I …