Category Archives: Photography

Latte-tude

Four days before  a lazy weekend at home in the middle of last month, I got a rather exciting email, which, to cut long story short, resulted in me instead packing up my tent and wellies again for festival two … Continue reading

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Farmyard Fun and other gigs

Strictly speaking the “farmyard” in title has come from an evening I spent at the Cow & Calf rocks in Ilkley, watching a performance by Jez Colborne and the Mind the Gap entitled Irresistible. Mind the Gap are a theatre … Continue reading

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Metal, Rock, and Wooden Willies. Where am I?

    On Monday I may have mentioned I was off to see Dimmu Borgir. Whilst I am here in Iceland for a music festival, I’m not there yet, and Dimmu Borgir aren’t playing it anyway. The Icelandic Dimmu Borgir is … Continue reading

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My Talented Friends – Malcolm Stoney

Malc is an old friend who took up photography about 5 years ago. His photos explore colour and perspective, and I love his unusual take on landscape and architecture. He’s just started a foundation degree in photography which he’s pretty excited … Continue reading

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Leeds and Beasts

If you’re missing a summer of sitting in a field, or more to the point a leaky tent, watching a band, whilst slightly sozzled on overpriced cider, then I hope my review of Leeds Festival 2010 which is now online, … Continue reading

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Clash With A Talented Friend – Danny Payne

I’m a bit excited about telling you about Danny, who’s another ace photographer, as this month we have our first review in the print version of Clash Magazine - yay! Here’s the scan – click for full size: You can also scroll … Continue reading

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My Talented Friends – Bart Pettman

I’m very lucky to have some incredibly talented and inspiring friends, and in particular some of the awesome photographers I know have work in competitions at the moment. I wanted to show you some of their stuff, partly because you … Continue reading

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Exposure in Leeds

This week I dragged a friend to hear landscape photographer Tim Parkin speak at the Leeds photography network ExposureLeeds meeting. I say dragged – my friend loves photography, especially landscape, but he’s been feeling a bit disillusioned lately and hasn’t been … Continue reading

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