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August 2005

85mm-1
Digital Photography

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM Telephoto Lens

Woohoo – I have just bitten the bullet and brought myself a new lens for my camera! It really does seem stunning, and is brilliant for portraits – just a shame I didn’t have it for the wedding photos…

gulls
Digital Photography

Photo Friday – Chaos

I once won a spelling competition at school because I was the only kid in the class who knew how to spell ‘chaos’. Unfortunately I was also the kid who didn’t know their 4, 6, 7 & 8 times-tables.…

dare
Life

Happy Mondays

Music-wise, I am totally loving ‘Dare’ by the Gorillaz. Hearing Shaun Ryder (formerly of Happy Mondays… or are they still together?) doing guest vocals takes me right back to the mid-90s – sneaking bottles of vodka into raves which…

naked-art
Life

Naked

People have gone MAD looking at this photo of mine on flickr. I’m guessing it’s because I have included the tag ‘naked’ with it. I just want to say… if you’re after porn, there’s mighty slim pickin’s here!…

one
Digital Photography

Photo Friday – One

Whilst it looks like it might be tied on (not very neatly) with string – this is for real – the tree was covered in them… some sort of nut I’m guessing.…

brighton-beach
Digital Photography

Brighton

Though not technically a part of the weekend, I had Friday off work, so it was included as special guest day this week. So. Friday. We went to the seaside! To Brighton to be exact… seaside with attitude. The…

red-onion
Digital Photography

Photo Friday – Violet

I’ve been ages looking back through my photos for something that looked a bit violent… I couldn’t understand though, why everyone else was posting photos of pretty things like pansies and flowers etc. I am considering a second opinion…

me
Life

Hello internet, I’m back! Did you miss me?

Hooray – at last I am communicado again (as opposed to incommunicado), thanks to a new motherboard, new superfast RAM and a smarty-pants husband who can fix anything with a micro-processor on board, using just a heavy-weight hammer and…