22nd December 2007

I was out down the pub in Manchester savouring a few jars of fine ale when I made this photo. It was taken with the camera on a table facing upwards.

21st December 2007

We’re off for Christmas now and down at our friends in Manchester where I made this photo in the evening after a long drive down from Scotland. The print is a David Shrigley if you’re interested.

20th December 2007

I’m prone to random bouts of silliness. Tonight was one such night so I put on a dress, a flowery hat and some lipstick and was silly in front of the camera. I also drank whisky and listened to the Bonzo dog band just to add to the general air of silliness.

The hat and the dress have significance to a couple of times in my life too.

19th December 2007

A rather more restful scene today in comparison to yesterday. An antidote to all that frustration if you will.

This was taken out on some playing fields at about 9.30 this morning just as the sun was peeking above the horizon sending its rays across the frost-whitened field. It was a sublime sight and here I am taking it all in, filled with the simple wonderment of the sun rising, just as it does every morning.

18th December 2007

This one was hard work tonight. I had one idea, it didn’t work out so I tried another but was never quite happy with it. I was tired too and not really in the mood for trying to make a photo. I was also really pleased with yesterday’s photo and never thought I could better it today but I did feel the pressure of yesterdays photograph weighing on me. All in all I’d say that my creative juices were rather congealed like the Christmas gravy left out too long, nothing was flowing.

The photos just prior to this one were of me searching for inspiration. I found none and flicked the bird at the camera. One take. Last frame of the night. Today’s photo.

17th December 2007

I had a rather different shot in mind prior to heading out into the freezing temperatures of the streets of Edinburgh last night, but as so often happens I got slightly differently inspired when I actually started making the photograph. I may yet re-visit my original idea for a later self portrait.

I like this photograph for its ethereal qualities and the sense of being on a journey and going somewhere.

16th December 2007

My original intention was to go for a black & white very high contrast photograph but when it got to the post production stage I decided that I would go for a lower contrast de-saturated look as this suited the mood of the photograph better.

15th December 2007
Me, in bed, with a hangover. I was out the night before and my head hurt in the morning.

No posts for 6 months and now here’s the third in 10 minutes, I must be some kind of mentalist, what am I thinking?! I’m intending that this little photo project of mine will breath some new life back into my blog. Things have just been a bit crazy busy recently, especially during the summer, and since then I have been enjoying that rare commodity known as free time and branched out my creative pursuits to incorporate ukulele playing. Photography has started nibbling my leg again and so to avoid the onset of gangrene I am once again devoting more time to it. Anyway, about today’s photograph:

14th December 2007
I wanted to experiment with totally out of focus photographs and decided to do a nude portrait using this technique. This was the final shot of the night and my favourite.

13th December 2007
Viv had her exam today and so we celebrated in the evening with a bottle of champagne.