...a plethora of creative nonsense...
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
