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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Goodbye to all that
“A part of me has died.” So says Terry Collier (or, possibly, it’s Bob Ferris) when they tear down The Fat Ox at the start of the not-bad-at-all Likely Lads film. How then to mourn the passing of a slightly … Continue reading
Center Perk
I am starting to believe that CenterParcs is the holiday that dare not speak its name. It’s the holiday that it seems everyone in England has actually been on and yet nobody seems to want to talk about. I reckon … Continue reading
Out of the darkness
It can be cold, dark and wet in Chesham. Dem cold, dark and wet. And at times it can feel like The Meadow is the coldest, darkest and wettest to be. And although it wasn’t that chilly at Chesham United … Continue reading
Life on phone
I really should be sorting out today’s pics from Chesham v Romulus. I should be but two things are stopping me. Firstly, it was a monumentally terrible game of soccer and I know that despite it being the first outing … Continue reading
The glass half full
A nice drink to unwind after Max Kozloff’s engrossing talk at the Photographers’ Gallery about portrait photography. And after the great man had lectured at length about the interdependence, complicity and friction between subject, taker and viewer what better way … Continue reading
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Remembering
Loosely inspired by Chris Harrison’s Sites of Memory I took a few photos on a vague theme of remembrance during this year’s – for want of a much better term – poppy season. The annual period of commemoration seems to … Continue reading
Shock shock horror horror
This is a Nikon F65. It’s not the most powerful hand camera in the world. But I have just dug it out and it seems that all it needs to make it go bang is two CR2 batteries and some … Continue reading
All the small things
I know this shot is nothing special. It’s interesting to me for a couple of reasons though. First, it’s my first non-sports digital shot for about six weeks and second, it’s the shot I was trying to take when a … Continue reading
This kiss
So yesterday I praise The Guardian for not mentioning Doisneau’s The Kiss. Today they run an article on a viral vid inspired by said snogging Frenchies. The teaser for the online movie experience is below. The actual ‘movie’ keeps disappearing … Continue reading
Witnesses
Bit late with this one but The Guardian is doing a series of supplements this week charting 100 years of press photography. I may have had issues with the Guardian blogs about their attitudes to photography but this is top … Continue reading
