In which things are square, and vintage
Published at 9:01 pm on December 17th, 2011
Filed under: Photobloggery.
Back in August, I talked about photo framing, and the use of square frames. In fact, if you’re viewing this on the main page, there’s a good chance it’s down below somewhere, I’ve been writing so few posts lately. In essence: nowadays you get a rectangular photo, and it’s very, very easy to crop your photo to whatever aspect ratio you like. Back in the day, you got a square photo,* and if you wanted to crop it you had to take a guillotine to your print.
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Keyword noise: analogue, Ensign Selfix, film photography, framing, harbour, jetty, lighthouse, photography, pier, Somerset, square, vintage, Watchet.
In which things are squared
Published at 6:42 pm on August 15th, 2011
Filed under: Photobloggery.
Hot weather is not very nice. How people manage with it, never mind enjoy it, I’ll never know. The brightness of the sunlight is something; but even then, winter sunshine is much better for photography. Midsummer sunshine, in the middle of a clear-skies day, is just that bit too harsh.
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Keyword noise: harbour, lighthouse, photography, pier, Somerset, square, Watchet.
In which we go to the seaside
Published at 6:19 pm on June 11th, 2010
Filed under: Photobloggery.
By the time you read this, we will be in internet-connection limbo. The broadband will be down for a few days. No up-to-the-minute topical blogposts. No uploading photos, although, as I’m on a several-months backlog as per usual, nobody is likely to notice.
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Keyword noise: breakwater, cliffs, coast, harbour, lighthouse, photography, pier, sea, seaside, Whitby, Yorkshire.
In which we go to Whitby
Published at 9:13 am on April 10th, 2009
Filed under: Photobloggery.
Last month we popped back up north, for a family wedding; and fitted in a side trip to Whitby.
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Keyword noise: acrobatics, alcohol, Banksy, beach, boats, breakwater, drinking, drunkenness, graffiti, handstand, harbour, lifeboat, lighthouse, Mary Ann Hepworth, North Yorkshire, photography, RNLI, sea, shoreline, Venn diagram, Whitby, Yorkshire.
In which it's still summer
Published at 4:06 pm on November 21st, 2008
Filed under: Photobloggery.
As it’s Friday again, some more summer photos.
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Keyword noise: boats, Cornwall, dogs, fog horn, Goonhilly, holiday, lifeboat, lighthouse, Lizard, photography, Polpeor Cove, satellite dish, sleepy, St Ives, summer, tourists.
In which we wonder if there are going to be UFOs on the telly
Published at 8:36 pm on December 16th, 2005
Filed under: Media Addict, Unbelievable.
The cruel hoax TV series Space Cadets, which I wrote about recently is due to finish tonight. The contestants have successfully been made to look like idiots; and sadly, no aliens have been caught on camera.
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Keyword noise: alien, Bentwaters, game shows, gullible, hoax, Johnny Vaughan, lighthouse, RAF Bentwaters, reality tv, Rendlesham Forest, Space Cadets, Suffolk, television, UFO, Woodbridge.
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