bikes and things

I’ve put a few rolls through the Olympus OM 20 recently. I finished one another film off today and dropped it in for an hour processing. Unfortunately the first 2 haven’t arrived back from Genie Imaging yet due to the Christmas post. So here’s a few of my favourite shots. The film is some of the expired film stock I bough – this one is a roll of Fuji Superia 800. Some of the shots from today are a bit dull due to the flat light but I like the texture and feel of the film.

Sexy snowman, originally uploaded by Andy*Matthews.

So I took this shot earlier in the year when the UK had it’s snowstorm. Each day it seems to get quite a few hits from Google and Yahoo with people looking for the term “Sexy Snowman”.

Strange what people look for!

A brilliant set of images documenting the death of many of the American Malls by photographer Brian Ulrich. I studied the idea of the American Mall when I was doing Diploma. I was looking at public and private space in terms of cities. Not my favourite of spaces it must be said.

The images as well as an interview are here and the headline quote taken from the article below.

Landscaping overgrows, walls develop mildew, ceilings cave in — a building can be shut down, but that doesn’t make it go away. Brian Ulrich’s photographs of closed-down malls and big-box retail stores reveal the potential ghost towns lying inside successful shopping complexes all across America.

Edit: The full set of images can be seen on his website. Looks like they were all shot on a large format camera.

My good friend Dave has a friend who makes nice saddles out of leather. All completely custom and made to your design! Surely a good way to customise that nice road bike of yours. Prices are pretty reasonable too.

And I quote:
Basically, you can choose the leather and colour and stitch etc and she does the rest. Good way to bring some old or damaged saddle back to life as well.

customsaddles.blogspot.com

Edit: Link added.

What matters to us, originally uploaded by eNBravo.

I’m so going to get some new Kicks after Christmas!

I’ve been following this issue closely for the last few days – mainly via updates from various photographers on Twitter. There seems to have been a fair few reported incidents this week of photographers being harassed by police even after the recently issued guidance to Police and PCSOs.

The good people at PhotographerNotaTerrorist.org have set up a protest for January 23rd. I will definately be going. More details on their blog.