Ski School!!

Flat light for snowboarding = bad

Flat light for photographs in the mountains = good

We only had one day of weather like this, the rest was beautiful blue skis and sunshine so excellent for snowboarding but I love the otherworldly/dreamlike look that flat light gives to photos. I would take sunshine any day though!

Also, do you like my new header image? It was time for a change

Thanks Nancy!

I recently bought this print from Nancy who goes under the (frankly genius) name of Pretty Little Thieves. She is an excellent illustrator and is selling some of her prints at the moment with all proceeds going to the Red Cross to help out Japan. My parcel came yesterday and not only was the print I ordered gorgeous but look at how beautifully it was packaged (top picture) and she also sent me a little note and as a bonus (she has been an internet friend for a while now) another drawing.

If anyone wants a lovely print in exchange for helping out others go and visit her shop now.

Also, I have donated one of my prints (this one if you are interested) to a silent auction for Japan. The auction is being held at The Horatia, in North London on Saturday afternoon. More details on the poster below, if you can read the tiny font! - if not then head on over the the London plinth blog or facebook group where you can read all about it and also about Katie who is organising it.

Photo Swaps

I want to conduct a little experiment (I am a photographer for the Chemistry Department after all, some of it must of rubbed off!) and I need your help or interest.

Basically I have a boring blank wall in my living room and I would love to decorate it with a few choice 6x4 inch swapped photographs. I thought it would be a nice idea to swap as it is a good way of sharing art and brightening up everyones day. So I am asking you all if you would be interested in swapping a 6 x 4 inch 300dpi file of a photograph for one of mine? - you get to choose from my photos which one you want.

Just in case I get loads and loads of responses to this post (you never know!) the space I have in mind isn't huge so I may not be able to swap with everyone - please don't be offended.

If you are interested then leave a comment in the comments section with a link to your work or an email address or email me directly. I have already swapped a few photos with some lovely people on flickr and so far my little wall is going to look fab!!!

Japan

Its completely impossible to put anything into words here.

Just thinking of everyone over there and hope its gets much better very soon.

Snow!!!!!!

I'll have a whole bunch more of these to bore you with when I'm back! Sorry about that.

Forgot this

I meant to upload this to the last post - never mind, here it is now instead. This makes my eyes go a bit funny and I'm not sure in a good way! I'll keep it up for now but it may go away soon, what do you think?

Unusual connections - its just how my brain works!

I was watching this little short film (which is so beautiful and calming) and it reminded me of some of these images I took a while ago at a Ginger gig. I meant to share them on here before but other stuff happened and I forgot! You might not be able to see the similarities - one is in a dirty club and the other a beautiful aquarium but its the silhouetted people and the LCD camera screens that I was drawn to and what I made the connection between. See for yourself, am I mad?!

I've recently bought a new camera with HD video so I am planning on making some amazing and probably oscar worthy(!) short films soon. Well, as soon as I can work out how to get the films from my camera to computer and then into a usable format - might be a while them!

ps. I don't know who the boy is in the 2nd photo but he's very pretty!