Skateboarder

Heading back to the car after an afternoon in Newcastle and I met a group of skateboarders near 55 Degrees.

They were more than happy to do a few tricks for the camera and seemed pretty much fearless despite their age – you’d not catch me flying off a concrete ledge on to solid ground with only a short plank of birch and some wheels to save me!

I only managed to get a few decent shots before I filled the memory-card.  Must take a secondary next time.

I think is my favourite, I really like how his arms mirror the wing logos on his shoes.

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Baltic by night

Quite obviously, the entrance to the Baltic center for contemporary art in Gateshead. Somewhere thats usually welcoming and vibrant, but looks pretty sinister at night.

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Whats your login?

There are some odd conventions used on websites. Conventions that have become acceptable and familiar over time as they’re continually repeated simply because there’s no better way of doing something or saying something. I think everyone will be familiar with the problems around using the conventional ‘Click Here’ as link text, but it still continues to be used because the alternative requires a bit of thinking about to come up with something in-context and meaningful. ‘Click Here’ is a convention strengthened by lazy production values, some other things are more complex though.

The problem I came across this morning is a prime example.

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Posted in Geeky Stuff

Almost famous

I recently submitted a photo to the guardian‘s ‘your photos’ section and was lucky enough to be selected to appear in Aprils gallery.

Obviously I’m pretty chuffed about the whole thing, being shown along side other photographers who’s work I admire is a major achievement as far as I’m concerned. Its encouraged me to carry on taking photos and improve the things I do and while its not fame and fortune just yet but it is some form of recognition and that’s never a bad thing.

For those who’ve not already found it, heres my Flickr Photostream which is where I’m posting any photos I feel are any good. (family stuff and general messing about type photos are kept either in the ‘photos’ section of this site or on Facebook.).

Posted in Photography

‘I ? Faces’ entry


I recently found ‘I ? Faces‘ and decided to enter this weeks contest with a photo of Kai. He’s not often in a photographic mood and tends not to pose for the camera, so I was really pleased to capture him being himself for once!

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