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Birmingham Opera’s Life Is A Dream
Having been in the volunteer chorus of their performance of Othello I am now, and forever will be, part of the extended Birmingham Opera family and while I wasn’t able to take part in their current production, Life Is A … Continue reading
Takeoffs
Having an international airport a few miles away it seemed absurd that we hadn’t visited the viewing area at the foot of the runway in Sheldon County Park and taken the cameras. Today we did. Lots of fun, though there … Continue reading
McCullin
Tonight we went to see a screening of McCullin, an documentary retrospective about veteran war photographer Don McCullin made by his long-time friend and assistant Jacqui Morris. The screening we saw was a work in progress with ungraded film, place-holder … Continue reading
Frozen Res
Went for a walk around Edgbaston Reservoir today. It’s frozen over, which, as Jez pointed out, shouldn’t have been a surprise but for some reason was. It’s rather lovely, all frozen like that, and when you throw a stone at … Continue reading
Photos from Highbury Park on New Years Eve (afternoon)
We went for a walk this afternoon in The Big Park with the cameras. Its something we should do more often and, you never know, might well do more often in this period of resolution. Here’s three of my personal … Continue reading
Run for the castle
There is something quite awesome about that tree by the castle on the Lickey Hills.
Tramps
We went to the Trampolining World Championships on Friday. I took some photos. Here are three of my favourites. I’d not done this kind of photography before. While the arena was pretty well lit I needed a pretty fast shutter … Continue reading
Phone Dump
Some photos from my internet-enabled pocket computing device which I quite like. Battles playing at Birmingham Institute. Say it in a Brummie accent for laughs and giggles. Some accidental art outside the Art school. The decorator’s radio.
Fire man
We went to a party at Fiona’s sister’s. There was a guy with Fire Poi – effectively blobs of fire on chains. Fi took this photo.
Visiting Lord Ron Ridge
Today Fiona and I invited our good friend Michael on a day trip to Ironbridge, the birth zone of the Industrial Revolution, the place where they discovered you could make a bridge out of iron and, having figured it out, … Continue reading
Looking Down – The Sequel
I like how focussing on a thing can affect you in some quite direct ways. A few weeks back I did a Pecha Kucha on the slightly jokey subject of looking at the ground. In doing so I started to … Continue reading
Looking Down
On Tuesday I did my second Pecha Kucha talk at the official Birmingham Pecha Kucha night. Here’s the video: If you’d like to see the slides more clearly here they are: As expected it was a lot of fun although … Continue reading
Paxos in Black and White
Back in October 2009 Fiona and I went to the Greek island of Paxos for a week. It was very enjoyable. I took photos with my iPhone, which went online here, and with the Nikon FM2 SLR camera loaded with … Continue reading
The photography of Miss Jones
Was delighted, while clicking around the new CiB Tumblr, to discover Alex Jones, who I sat next to when I shared an office with Meshed, Substrakt et al, is a rather good photographer. Yes, she’s playing around with the usual … Continue reading
Highbury Studio photos
Before Christmas I built a small website for John Mostyn for Highbury Studio, the recording studio he’s looking after this year. It’s a lovely old place that oozes history and I was very keen to get a camera in there. … Continue reading