photos

what are you doing this weekend ?  well, if you are in the south of england you could do no better than pop in to this two day photo exhibition in All Saints Church, Swallowfield.

i’ve got 6 pictures on display and will be attending myself on midday on sunday.  with over 120 prints on view i think it’s going to be quite interesting !

the final week with the lazy eye doll (cost 30p from some charity shop). she’s been on our shelf for a few years, but it was only on wednesday night i realised she did this which was quite alarming ((try here if the video below doesn’t work))

here are two other objects:

the third man in our group was a mysterious no-show. hopefully we didn’t frighten him away after our sad attempts last week. Anyway, after fiddling around for ages with tins and chocolate and beer and wine mike came up with the great idea of putting maltesers on a mirror.
below is a selection of things from tescos. all day breakfast in a tin was my favourite

and here’s a picture of a can of beer. probably.

and here’s dave the lecturer despairing at our poor attempts to subvert the genre and avoid cliches (or clinches)

i’m doing another photo course with tony, although we’re in separate groups this time. i see he’s put some of his excellent photos on his flickr stream already.
my group concentrated on my glass head.

and a posh watch

next week we’ll be reconstructing a tombola. or so we’ve decided.

i had a picture published in the Reading Festival programme which has won me some festival goodies apparently (the mind boggles what they may be!). here is a corner of the page – mine is the action man

well, this year i didn’t win the trophy for the best photo in show, but i did get a few first, two seconds, a third and two ‘highly commendeds’, with only my portraits failing to get anything. still, after 3 years it’s good someone else wins isn’t it 😉

i went on an experience seminar yesterday with my friend Richard. The course was excellent and i really recommend it for anyone who’s got a canon digital SLR camera (i’ve got the 350D)

hopefully you’ll start noticing the difference next time i go photoing with my big camera !

if you are in edinburgh on a sunny day, you must go and see the camera obscura. it’s quite fantastic, especially the bit where you can lift up cars etc..

here’s the town

and here it is with the light on

fantastically, i won best-in-show for my photo of a snail at the Swallowfield Show.

here i am proudly receiving the trophy

all of the other photos i entered have appeared on the blog at some point, but in case you are interested here is what else i entered (in each category):
a journey (1st):

portrait:

tranport:

texture (3rd):

skyscape (2nd):

my favourite place:

song title (1st):

4 seasons (3rd – best viewed bigger):

i went with others’ advice on my previous attempt and re-approached the song title thing. so, here’s my new song title picture. i think i cropped a bit too tight on the right though. oh well.
do you know what it is yet ?