Great to meet up with Jim, Aleks, Paula, Sally, Richard and Simon for another photo walk on Sat – this time we went to Hackney to have a wander around the perimeter of the Olympic site. We also all agreed to do an A4 print swap but more on that later. We spent more time drinking coffee and chatting than walking and snapping but that was fine with me.
Next location Brighton apparently! Can’t wait.
Snapped earlier today, the barbers a few doors down has closed leaving this strange series of mirrors. Perfect for a reflection shot!
My desk at home where I spend a lot of my time. Enjoying working with a pen tablet for Photoshop work now. Really good.
A beautiful sky over London last night. Quickly grabbed the Nikon and the 85mm. Not as sharp as I’d have liked though as I didn’t have time to set the tripod up. Also made the Londonist Sunday page which is nice.
Books in the office – inspiration.
Oh and of course lots and lots of lovely Instagramming as usual. So much pleasure from seeing things, snapping and sharing. Much love for Instagram.
One of the best things about Flickr is the community of other photographers that exists around it. This is the primary reason I’m still so addicted to it. Perhaps one of the best functions of this community is the ability to mark a photo as a favourite – add it to your library of things you like. I have a fairly large set of favourites, currently running at 4,144 photos so far!
For me one of the best ways of finding new and interesting work is by looking at another users favourites collection. It’s easy to go from user to user and find a bunch of incredible work to look at. It’s like a curated guide to Flickr.
It was my Birthday yesterday and as usual I took the day off work and Emma and I went for a wander around town. Emma bought me some of the Impossible Colour film for my Polaroid. It’s a bit of an expensive luxury and I definitely have a love hate feeling towards the stuff. Here’s two shots I took yesterday. They haven’t developed properly and the chemicals have started to blister but I quite like them – there’s something quite nice about the imperfections.
Another link to some rather nice work I’ve found via the wonderful medium of Twitter – it’s so good I’ve definitely had one of those “I wish I’d thought of that” moments with it. It’s a beautiful body of work which is part way through and is seeking funding to complete. Marc describes the work as follows:
“Those decaying vestiges of life-and-death human struggle — falling monuments to bellicosity — have a curious attraction to them. The paradoxes are rich. They once showcased unbridled strength and had the prowess to intimidate as they repelled intruders by unrelenting force. This was human power in its rawest form. Now these feeble structures derive their power from something else. With their guns and posts silent, they stand to testify that all things perish. No act of human defiance can possibly win the greatest of all battles of attrition, that of time…It is vitally important historical work.”
A number of the shots remind me of walking around the local area I grew up in near Bath exploring the old pill boxes, caves and old airfields used during the war – all of which are crumbling and being over taken by nature.
I’m going to buy a print and the book to help contribute – so should you! The thing that really swung it for me was seeing the video below where Marc explains the process and research that has gone into the project.
Edit: I’ve made my contribution to the project with some birthday money. Can’t wait to get my final print!
Read MoreGetting into taking a lot more snaps with the X100, not quite a photo a day but taking as many as I can. Here’s my effort from today.
…not in real life but on Flickr. I’ve been getting back into uploading more personal work to Flickr rather than just more formal work stuff thanks to getting my hands on that lovely Fujifilm X100.
I used to be a bit obsessed with hits, favourites and the possibility of getting into explore which is a way of showing what’s popular at present on site. This was during the 365 project time but that moment seems to have passed now. Having said that I have a set of images which gets updated each night showing which of my shots are most popular – via the very useful Flickr set manager. As a side you’d think that this kind of “smart set” would be built into Flickr as a standard feature but since being bought by Yahoo where all development seems to have stopped.
Anyway, back on track – I uploaded this image I took in the recent thick fog we had in London and added it to a few groups on Flickr. Since then it’s gone bonkers. At the time of writing this post it’s had 525 views, 35 comments and 59 favourites as well as making it into explore. I think I have better pictures but this seems to have appealed to a bunch of people.
![Misty morning in East Dulwich [Explore]](http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6094/6369166809_8cf020dbd0.jpg)
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