Photography

I took apart an old, old 10GB IDE laptop hard disk. Pretty!

Last month, London Fire Spinners performed for the #TheMovement global launch party at ZSL London Zoo. It was a lot of fun for all concerned and we had a great time. I took some photos, so here they are!

I’m still getting the hang of shooting with my reversed-lens setup without a tripod. The great thing is that suddenly a lawn becomes incredibly interesting once you can get down to that level of detail.

Because all girls are drama-prone harpies. Everyone knows this. sigh

The first frost of the year has hit and mornings are the perfect time to capture some macro images of ice crystals!

This morning is quite foggy and the excel centre looks all mysterious and menacing..

Thought I’d try out my phone’s camera and what do you know! It’s pretty good!  Cherry blossoms are awesome!

The last photos I managed to get my camera to take before it died a noble death by lack of battery today.

A month ago, a lovely friend from Canada came a-visiting! So Skins Elliott, photographer and all-round Pretty Cool Guy, Katelyn and I went to the South Bank to amble around and catch up. Some photos got taken! I’m especially happy about how my little manual 50mm f/1.4 lens produces this really nice soft-focus effect in some situations. I need to work out what I did to achieve this!

A while ago, I joined this awesome collaborative production company called HitRecord. It’s a little bit different. It’s a collaborative production company. Think open source, Creative Commons and a whole bunch of delightful humans rolled into one package. Anyone can join. Anyone can contribute. As long as it’s your own work. It leads to some incredible collaborations like this: …that arise from someone writing a short story, then someone else drawing a couple of character illustrations, then someone else recording a reading of the story, then someone else recording a live green-screened rendition ...

In keeping (somewhat) with my photographic theme, today I noticed that it was valiantly attempting to snow. Mostly it turned into slush but some of it stuck around on plants in the garden and on my back as I was bent over staring intently at bushes through a lens. Anyhow I managed to do some photography and got a bunch of pictures of snowflakes and other states of water. Now I wish I could feel my fingers… ...

I’ve resolved to try and practice my photography more. I have a kickass camera and an extremely fun lens and yet I leave both of these things sitting gathering dust constantly! So this next week I will post a set of photos each evening to alleviate that. Tonight’s theme: Macros! 

My friend and I had a rather amazing game of Bananagrams where she was busy constructing elaborate ladder-type layouts while my word grid was doing its level best to impersonate the map of the Russian Empire. All in all a success, I’d say! Anyhow, I decided that what we needed was some dramatic macros of the whole thing.

My beloved Canon 60D has been sitting with my mum for the last two weeks which has been preventing me from taking more photos, as I resolved to do recently. I got it back last night so of course I did the only thing that a sensible and mature photographer would do: take pictures of my housemate’s cleavage!  After all’s said and done, I’m very fond of my f/1.4 30mm lens and its depth of field. ...