Going to start blogging the places that my photos turn up. Not going to go back and list all the previous uses, but here are some recent/interesting ones. It is amazing where your photos end up when you give them away for free.
Category : photography
Category : photography
Shot some fabric close-ups for Time To Change Fabrics. Good fun, lots of great colours, tartan seemed to come out the best.
Then used some great red fleece I got from the site as a backdrop for my first attempt and some Christmas stock shots. Nothing great yet, just experimenting with the setup of the background, lights etc. This one shows the fabric works well, even my if control of DOF wasn’t all that great. I’ll have another go later in the week.
Had a couple of hours in Edinburgh yesterday to run around with the camera. It was generally too bright ( between 2pm – 4pm ) so it wasn’t very good light at all. That combined with there being lots of people about made it quite tricky. Was up Calton Hill and got some OK cityscape type shots of Leith like:
Favourite shot of the day was probably this one taken from near the top of the High Street, lots of interesting colour:
The closes of the High Street were quite tricky, there is only a very short time when the sun hits them at the right angle and I don’t think I was there for any of them. I liked this one though, hopefully get this on the front cover of Iain Rankin’s new book ‘Rebus and the Killer Pigeon’
Note: full size versions of most blog images can be accessed on Morguefile (if they are links).
At the risk of going a bit ‘listy’.
I was listening to ‘The Last Goodbye’ by Jeff Buckley the other day and as ever, particularly enjoyed the bit in the song where he sings “Did you say no, this cant happen to me” and it got me thinking, what the individual moments in songs that I like. So, I’m going to use this post to record them all as I think of them. I encourage my reader to add his too.
So here goes:
- “Did you say no, this can’t happen to me” – Last Goodbye – Jeff Buckley
- The very start of the first chorus – Long Distance, Turin Brakes
- The quiet bit just before “installed by the machine” (then the synths come up with an 80′s-tastic retro hit) – P-Machinery – Propaganda
- “it’s gonna be a glorious day.” – Lucky – Radiohead
- “Lick my legs of desire.” – Rid Of Me – PJ Harvey
- “You’re not alone” – Rock and Roll Suicide – David Bowie
- “Wap wap wap waaaahhhh!” – Henrietta – The Fratellis
- The key change just before the end – Good Thing – The Woodentops
- “And you could have it all, my empire of dirt” – Hurt – the Johnny Cash version
- When the bass joins in – Two Tribes – Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- Right at the end of the choral bit – America, What Time is Love – The KLF
- “Waiting my whole life for just one…Day….” – Add It Up – The Violent Femmes
I can hear Stuart scoffing now…
Category : zeitgeist
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