Couple of new bits of gear, first of all this Nikkor 10.5mm f2.8 fish eye. Its great, Ive used it quite a bit already, its ace for landscape stuff, as I found out a couple of weeks ago when I climbed Coniston Old Man!

Here's us in the campervan drinking a cup of tea before the climb.





Also, its was a while ago that I got this thing called a lensebaby, its pretty sweet, but its definatly got a time a place!



Here it is, with its aperture rings and their holder.

I also made a product tent, which Ive used to shoot these photos with!

here that is...



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More music stuff.

More music stuff. there are a load of photos here, waaaay to many for a news page/blog post!

So James Rhodes, a second year student from my course was making a couple of music videos the other day, and he asked if I wanted to go along and get some snaps for him, it was an ace set up, three video studio lights, and a bunch of mics and wires, in a big room. I got loads of stuff I liked, heres some of it!

Holy State

Early start this morning doing some promo shots for the band Holy State, a punk band consisting of people from Norwich, my home town, but they're mostly in Leeds now.

Here are the final 4.

The Lock and Keys

Some friends of mine play in a band called the Lock and Keys. I went along to one of their gigs on Saturday to take some photographs of them, some of them are better than others, but all in all, I'm happy with the results.

Oblong

I spent the afternoon at Oblong, which is a social/resource centre in Woodhouse, Leeds.

Duncan, one of the guys that works there mentioned they could so with some new photographs for their website.

I did a few, but here are a couple of my favourites.





I put a second light to light up the bottom right corner, its subtle but I think it makes alot of difference.

loads of news, not sure where to start!



Well, Ill start with the rubbish news that i broke my thumb, which sucks!

Took some BMX snaps though, which i have been a bit too busy to spend much time on recently it seems...just boring old hyde ones, but still.





Jono and Kyle, table contest. votes on a blank postcard to my address!

been doing loads of dissertation stuff which is interesting, getting into this book by Susan Sontag called regarding the pain of others. And a few war picture books, its shocking stuff but really reassures my stance as a pacifist.

Got a DVD to watch called "war photographer" about james nachtwey, who is an amazing photojournalist.

heres a few of his shots.



Indonesia 1998 - a beggar washes his children in a polluted canal.



Palestinians fighting the Isreli Army, probably petrol bombing tanks.

http://www.palsolidarity.org/



Collapse of the south tower. 9/11.

and a good quote about photojournalism...

"I have been a witness, and these pictures are

my testimony. The events I have recorded should

not be forgotten and must not be repeated."

ok, so thats made my work seem trivial and rubbish, but its so inspiring to see work like that.
There is loads more on his website http://www.jamesnachtwey.com/ Please take the time to have a look.

I got a new lense in other news, its called a lensbaby and its a very sickly effect lense, but it definatly has its uses.

Here are a few shots using it.

That just about sums up halloween too...

Elections last night, stayed up till just after 2, then woke back up for the big one at 4am, good result, glad that military minded old dude isnt going to be in charge with his joke of a vice president. Obama seems to be able to hold his own with Bill O rielly, that gets him my respect!

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busniess cards

I went to the printers today to print my business cards.

I chose a few different colours and weights of card I liked, and got the design laid out in indesign ready to be sent to the Risograph, which was the print method I chose when I started to design my card.

As far as I can gather, a Risograph is pretty muck like digitally and easily screen printing onto paper. You send a one colour design to it and produce a master, which is like a screen, and this sits on the drum and the ink gets sqeezed through it onto the card.

This is the mos eco-friendly way of printing anything short of potato stamping with octopus ink or something it seems!

Here are a few snaps of the cards...











I know its dumb because the chances are you've already got my web adress, but please get in touch if youd want one for any reason, I'm really proud of them!

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