Across the Water
Mar/100
Across the water from Edinburgh Portobello beach you can see this factory/power station. It looked rather lovely on this particular day.
Frozen
Mar/100
I walk by this river/stream on my way to work. We had a lot of snow here in the UK towards the end of 2009 and through the beginning 2010. This river was frozen solid for weeks on end.
It’s been so cold some mornings I’ve been de-icing my car with a kettle of warm water (which would then ice up as it pooled on the road under the car) the doors of the car have been frozen shut and some mornings when I turned the key in the ignition the car would do nothing for a few seconds before the starter motor actually kicks in – it was so cold the ignition delayed. One morning I started the car and had left the fan setting on high the last time I’d driven, instead of the soothing sound of the fans starting up what I got was the crunching sound of ice shattering and being dispensed out of my air vents somewhere within the car. Ice shouldn’t creep that far up into the innards of a car!
Also around the time this photo was taken England had probably ground to a halt due to the cold and snow – whereas countries like Norway and Canada manage to carry on and not implode under such weather.
Twin Ghosts
Mar/100
New incoming batch of photos taken using my Lomo LC-A+. I don’t do double exposures very often – this one was taken on Edinburgh’s Portobello beach on Valentines day. I’m surprised how well it worked.
Taken on expired Kodak Portra 400VC.
Interesting Music Videos
Mar/100
I’ve been watching lots and lots of music videos lately mainly for research, I’d thought it would be interesting to start posting them up here for fun and for my own reference.
Here’s two I came across today:
Director: James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs
This is just genius. I love the amount of work that’s gone into this and the absolute chaos and seer barrage of stuff that’s flying about everywhere.
Director: Megaforce
Even though I can clearly see how the effects in this video have been done it’s still and really impressive and original video – I’d love to see all the planning, working out and tests done in preparation for the shooting.
Time Gentlemen…
Feb/100
Taken in The Plough, managed by Greg "The Fist!" Mcleod.
Almost not processing here.
By the Sea
Feb/100
One of my first Polaroids taken on my lovely SX-70 camera using expired TZ-Artist film.
There’s marks on this image at the bottom and the top left hand corner where myself and Lizabeth handled the polaroid after it popped out, it’s amazing how sensitive the film is to being touched.
I’m surprised at how degraded the film is, it is over a year out of date and I would have liked the image to be clearer but it does have a wonderful eerie quality to it.
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