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Honourable Chap

I’m pleased to announce that one of my photos was recently given an honourable mention in the people/portrait category of an amateur photography competition – TheEveryman.
You can see the entry down the bottom on the right hand side here.

Are You Taking Your Photography Too Seriously?

( Funny and Joys and Photography )

Check out these great pictures of some serious keen-bean photographers!
PS please let me know if the title of this post doesn’t display properly.

Cover Story

( Photography and Photos and Travels )

Two of my photos have recently been used by the exclusive bespoke travel company Remote Lands.
The first is the cover shot for their upcoming ‘Cuisine and Culture’ trip around Asia in 2007, and features as the first photo displayed on the website, and the cover shot on the print version of the brochure.
The second [...]

Guess Where In The World

A recent friendly email from an interested party got me going on my latest Flickr group – ‘Guess Where In The World’.
There’s a number of groups like this on Flickr where people post photos of their town, state or even country…however no one took up the challenge of the whole world…that is until i came [...]

What’s Going On?

( Joys and Photography and Photos )

Well…thought i’d write a little bit about what’s been going on recently…this site’s getting a bit behind the times!
Today is world aids day. A good chance for us all to step back and think about others…especially in the old festive season.
And that brings me to my next point…it’s the 1st of December! Already! Wow has [...]

Come On The Burgh!!

( Edinburgh and Photography and Uni )

I ventured out to Peffermill yesterday afternoon to cheer on the Edinburgh Uni First XI football team in their sound win over Glasgow Uni. I was asked to go out to take some pictures of the game for the Edinburgh Uni newspaper – Student (new window). Despite the mud, rain and the cold, we battled [...]

Photoshopped

Just installed Photoshop CS2 (new window) – what a program! No idea how to use it…but a quick look up the ‘help’ section and i was able to remove an unwanted label in a photo. Sounds easy right? The label was on tartan! Managed to clone the tartan background and remove as much or as [...]

Holy Smokes

Found a very funny little comic strip today (no i don’t spend all my time surfing the internet with nothing better to do!!) about a duck that’s a photographer. It’s very aptly named – what the duck! (new window) (the t-shirts are pretty cool too!).
On browsing the comments of his latest strip – there is [...]

The Beginnings

( Art and Edinburgh and Photography and Photos )

Upon light of recent comments by an unnamed party (not my brother) about the general content of my website in recent times (he doesn’t think it’s boring because i’m back home…he would never say that), i’ve set about to make this post one of the most funny and enjoyable of all time. World records will [...]

It’s Official!

( Joys and Photography )

It’s happened…slightly unexpected, but very welcome, i’m now officially a published photographer!
You might remember some time ago i mentioned that a few people in America were setting up an exclusive travel agents, tailoring amazing trips all around Asia. Well, said company’s website is now up and running, and features a few of my shots.
Check out [...]