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Electric Site

Yes, it’s the London Eye again. I travel into town by river, if I’m coming in from work, and want to get anywhere in the vaguely Soho area, and so I did on Tuesday night. This isn’t really very good at larger sizes, but it’ll do for on-line.

Electric Site

on January 24, 2008 by Alasdair

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Nicked from, y'know, whoever was passing...

In General Blogging on January 18, 2008 by Alasdair

“Because we never really know each other as well as we think, in response to this post I’d like you to ask a question. Anything about which you are curious, anything you feel you ought to know about me. Silly, serious, personal, fannish. Ask away. Then copy this to your own journal, and see what people don’t know about you.”

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Nicked from, y’know, whoever was passing…

In Livejournal on January 18, 2008 by Alasdair

“Because we never really know each other as well as we think, in response to this post I’d like you to ask a question. Anything about which you are curious, anything you feel you ought to know about me. Silly, serious, personal, fannish. Ask away. Then copy this to your own journal, and see what people don’t know about you.”

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In Place Of Original Thought

In General Blogging on January 7, 2008 by Alasdair

That random song title meme that’s doing the rounds. You know the one – hit randomise, then paste the titles in as answers to the questions, without changing the order. Just like everyone else, some of these are tripe, some erm, accurate, and some just funny.

Play along at home, and see if you can guess which is which. I’ll award marks for the most correct answers. And a small prize. Or something.

IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY?” YOU SAY?
The Torch

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
Closedown

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GIRL?
Sealclubbing

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
BulletProof!

And there’s more….

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In Place Of Original Thought

In Livejournal on January 7, 2008 by Alasdair

That random song title meme that’s doing the rounds. You know the one – hit randomise, then paste the titles in as answers to the questions, without changing the order. Just like everyone else, some of these are tripe, some erm, accurate, and some just funny.

Play along at home, and see if you can guess which is which. I’ll award marks for the most correct answers. And a small prize. Or something.

IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY?” YOU SAY?
The Torch

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
Closedown

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GIRL?
Sealclubbing

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
BulletProof!

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
After The Watershed (Early Learning The Hard Way)

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
The Trees

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Dogboy vs Monsters

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OFTEN?
Less Of Me

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
I Wouldn’t Want To Live In A World Without Grudges

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Crucify

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
St John Of Gods

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Millenium Bug

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
No Pussy Blues

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Stick It To The Pimp

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST??
London Girl

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
Fucking ‘ell It’s Fred Titmus

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Aikea-Guinea

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
Sister Rosetta

WHAT IS 2 + 2?
Hit The Road Jack

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Before The Fall

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Descent

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Mother and the Misogynist

Louise Bourgeois’s Sculpture “Maman 1999″, outside the Tate Modern, with the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral below. (St Paul being the titular misogynist, of course.) This is another one of those shots that’s going to niggle at me, as however much I like parts of it, it’s still full of little imperfections, particularly in the bottom left and right corners.

As is almost always the case with by B&W work, I’ve left the merest hint of a colour wash in – a very slight red tint, this time around. I experimented with versions of this where the red was a much stronger element, but in the end, settled on this.

Mother and the Misogynist

on January 6, 2008 by Alasdair

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Another(wise) Dull Day

A retake, several years later. If you look back in my flickr archives (in fact, if you look in my “Most Interesting” photos), you’ll find a shot titled “An Otherwise Dull Day“, taken years ago when I was first getting interested in photography. I like the shot, but there were things about it that niggled at me, especially as the standard of my photography has improved. So when I was passing the spot where I took the original the other day, I thought I’d have a go more or less the same shot again, with the benefit of several years practice. I like this shot rather better – it’s better composed, and much better post-processed. Let me know what you think?

Another(wise) Dull Day

on January 5, 2008 by Alasdair

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Finale

Possibly the nerdiest photo I will ever post – at my players urging, I took a photo of the final do-or-die dice roll of our long running Mage RPG. The roll was a success, the world was saved, and here it is, captured for posterity.

I actually quite like this as a photo – post-processing it for colour was a bit of a bastard, as the yellow backdrop was made even yellower by the tone of the light in my living room, and anything that toned that down often did weird things to the colour of the dice, but I like the backdrop and the effect I eventually decided on.

Finale

on January 1, 2008 by Alasdair

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