Gallery Update…

 

 

I forgot to include this preview of my new galleries page on one of my recent posts, so here it is.

Good ole circles…

Photo of the week…

Hello and welcome to an exciting new episode of ‘Photo of the week’ where I, your host, will be pretending this is a game show and not a blog.

I’m bored of that now.

This photo was taken with my new Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6 EX DC HSM SUPER Wide Angle lens in The West Park in South Shields at around 6:15pm. I was basically looking for ways to show the potential of the lens when I spotted this feather. Normally, I tend to photograph objects as they are, rather than create a shot, however I was after a specific style of shot this time and so positioned the feather, thought ‘just this once wont hurt’ ; and it didnt.

This is probably one of my best photographs or better ones anyway. So, I’ll be uploading this one to Alamy and hopefully make some money from it. If not though, I think it’ll look good in my galleries on my site.

Favourite Seinfeld scene…

I love this…

The Sigma SUPER wide angle lens…

I have got my hands on a Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6 EX DC HSM SUPER Wide Angle lens!!!!

Groovy.

I’ve been after a wide angle lens for ages and now I finally have one which means it’s also time to learn how to use one!

This is one bad boy of a lens. I nearly broke my nose with the sheer weight of it a few times. It literally looks the business! So here are a couple of photos from my first time out using it.

I’m not particularly pleased with them because the lighting for the last few days has been very poor. (You know that way when the sky is white, the clouds have no definition and it rains sporadically? Yeah? That way!)

Good evening… commissioner…

I’ve spent most of today tweaking parts of my site. I’ve learnt the odd website construction technique from Rachel (Xeniumdesign.co.uk) so I’ve put it to good use in creating a new commissions page and adding stuff to the home, about and galleries pages.

I hope everyone likes them because to be quite blunt, I bust my a** doing it!!

Numanoid…

I’ve been a Gary Numan fan for several years now, probably my favourite musician. Mind you, I have some very weird tastes ranging from Depeche Mode and Erasure to Cradle of Filth and Rammstein, but still…

I think one of the reasons I like him is that he seems a lot like me in that people dont seem to like him and he doesnt seem to like people. And in an interview with thht plonker Graham Norton, he says he doesnt smile because he hates his teeth, much like I dont smile as I think I have a stupid face.

I can also relate to his anti-christian lyrics, especially in his more recent songs as they tend to echo my sentiments…

Anyway, I’m losing track of the point here. I found this video to “I die, you die” which I hadn’t heard before, so here it is: (interestingly, Richard O’Brian seems to have let him into the crystal dome?!)

The McCanns…

“This is the mystery couple believed to have been seen with Madeleine McCann three days after she vanished.” - says The Daily Mirror 8th August.

Now… who do these photo fits of two people claimed to have been seen with Madeleine by Anna Stam over a year ago remind you of?!

Heres a hint…

I’ve got to admit, I dont have a clue what to say now. I could go either direction:

*  It’s over a year ago, this nutter is just thinking of the McCanns, or

*  It’s them, they did it, they killed her, they should still be suspects or

*  It was the McCanns she saw.. three days before she went missing… perhaps…

I’ll settle for the first one… for now.

I just thought that, that is one hell of a likeness. Perhaps, Kate and Gerry have evil twins.

I’ll make my feelings clear though: I don’t think they are innocent. They should face charges of child neglect which, lets face it, they did on at least one occassion and if indeed Madeleine has been abducted, it is their fault for leaving a three year old child and two babies alone in a foreign country whilst drinking themselves under the table with their equally negligent chums.

I also think that using their “Find Madeleine” fund to pay off the mortgage was, and is, sickening.

I have sympathy for Madeleine, but finding the holy grail would be lesser a feat than finding sympathy for her parents.

Xenium Design…

I’d just like to congratulate Rachel on her second completed website as commisioned by The West Park Pub of South Shields. (second to my great site of course). I was very pleased to have taken care of the photography for the site.

Rachel designed the entire site herself and it really does look fantastic. She is self taught and has only recently began web development and design as a career and already her finished work is outstanding!! Check it out by clicking the link below:

www.thewestparkpub.co.uk

You can also visit Rachel’s web design company’s website, Xenium Design here:

www.xeniumdesign.co.uk

As you will see from both my website and that of The West Park Pub’s, Rachel is incredibly talented and I would greatly encourage those of you who are after a quality, affordable website to contact her asap.

Broken Xbox360 in Toys ‘R’ Us…

On a recent trip to Toys ‘R’ Us near the Metro Centre in Gateshead (Thats right, aged 23 i still go to Toys ‘R’ Us), I came across this broken Xbox360. I feel it just summed up the farce.

Sorry for the poor quality from my phone’s camera.

Unsociable/horrendous hours…

Its just after 10pm…

Ive just got home having been at work since 7am…

I am totally shattered… totally.. shattered…

…and somehow lots of ‘…’ seems appropriate  (?!?!?!?!?)

Goodnight.