A moan

I do think I am going to have to have words with my neighbour who feeds the stray cats in the area. Whilst the feeding in and of itself isn't an issue the constant sound of howling cats outside my window is not entirely condusive to sleeping. This combined with early …

Triplicate faces

This week's printed personal pictures all come from one evening spent at my friend's house whilst having drinks for her birthday.

Hopefully they'll come out nicely when put into the book...

Tri-cycle Printing

It's been a long time since I've made any decent sized prints for myself. I don't even make that many prints for clients these days most either want to arrange it for themselves, are going to add copy or are never going to let the pictures escape fromt the aether that …

Hmmm Delicious

In what appears to have been a glitch in the matrix I mistakenly thought I went out on Saturday night. Apparently I didn't and I didn't have a good time taking pictures of people (if anyone would like copies of the images which I thought I took, email me), sorry to …

Possible Redesign

The layout and design of this site has always been a little bit lacking as I have neither the talent nor the time to really get it sorted out. Anyhow a friend of mine had a few suggestions and we came up with the following possibilities. Which one do you think works …

Monday night madness

So I couldn't sleep....

As a result I went out to Mike's party and took some pictures, I may or may not have had a shoot through umbrella with me, which is probably overkill for a club, but I have some portraits to do today...

The party was pretty tame and I can't say …

A971

It's been a long and busy weekend, I have just got in and have to be up again in 4 hours, I will eventually get to rest properly...

Anyhow Saturday night my friend http://www.myspace.com/djmunoz13">Mike Munoz DJed at a new Bar in Tokyo. I went along and took some pictures which you can see over

Umbrella Results

Mouse over to see the effect of putting an umbrella between the flash and the subject...

The only other change is a slight boosting of the flash power to account for the amount of light reflected/dispersed by the umbrella fabric...

Shhhh, Secret...

I think I may have hit the motherlode....

Umbrellas are not cheap in the first place and in Japan they are stupidly expensive ($130 for a 36inch shoot-through anyone??)...

Anyhow I needed at least one new one and walking home from the station I saw some material in the 100

This week

As a result of my knee injury I am still unable to grapple consistently (I would be fine for 2-3 sessions then it would get tweaked and I'd be off the mat for a week or two). Therefore I've decided to address a big weakness in my game, namely my striking.

As a result I …

Mary Poppins Style....

Today it was windy and despite knowing better I didn't bother to put sandbags on my lightstand with an umbrealla while doing some work outside...

Needless to say there was a strong gust and the whole lot went airborne and came down to earth with a sickening crash. …

Self Portraits....

It is currently stupendously hot in Tokyo so I have been stuck indoors for most of the final week of my summer holiday, which is a bit of a shame, however it has given me plenty of time to perfect my procrastination skills.

One method I like for wasting time is taking …

London Calling

I had a great time on Saturday night out at London Calling and the afterparty at the Ruby Rooms. The lighting setup I wanted to try didn't happen as I realised at the last minute I didn't have enough umbrella adaptors, something for the shopping list....

Anyhow, I did …

New Links and a Live Appearance

I always like to keep my eyes out for pretty things and I think I have found been linked to some of both at:

Bleu Lulu a one woman jewlery company in the USA, whose prices I had to double check, please don't let the girls know how little you can buy them exquisite …

Updates on the Holiday

I'm still away, I have managed to get as far as Aomori, via Sapporo and some other parts of Hokkaido.

The holiday pictures will be up shortly, but for now, content yourselves with some pictures of a band I saw playing as part of the Hakkodate festival

Ladies and …

On Holiday

I shall be on holiday for the next two or three weeks. I will be visiting the sunny island of Hokkaido, where I shall be mostly relaxing, maybe shooting the occasional photo. Anyone in the area fancy doing drinks or an impromptu session...?

Now how to make room in my …

Push the Tempo

Yesterday Ollie, Ken and I went out to Enoshima to go to a beach party and club night. I had an awesome time and as per usual took some pictures.

Click the banner or here to see the gallery.

I'll put up a full gallery eventually, however due to my computing woes, I …

Rotten Apple

It would appear my macbook has bitten the dust AGAIN, as a result it is going for a nice vacation with the apple technicians AGAIN, so far it has had a new logic board a new super drive and a new power supply in a matter of months. I should be back online later today as …

Burn your Digital Cameras...

The EPUK is reporting that the independent one of the leading newspapers in the UK has declared that film is the future and that from now on they will only be dealing with Kodax Tri-X film.
In other news Google has an innovative way to reduce the costs of installing …

Tilting and Shifting

I was out on Saturday pricing and taking test shots for a possible client and realised I wasn't having as much fun as usual, and that I had lost some of the entertainment value from just making pictures. This stems from the fact that getting 'good' pictures is …