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Comment on Welsh International Bodypainting Festival – 3 by Alex C

Alex C — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:06:39 +0000

Wow, it’s great to see the final results. What fantastic pieces of art! Wish I could have been there

Comment on Welsh International Body Painting Festival – 2 by Alex C

Alex C — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:01:32 +0000

Go Seb! Lol, I would never have recognised him if you hadn’t said. Where did his hair go? Did he help out in the garden and get in a scuffle with the lawn mower? (Sorry, not bery original I know). Bring back the dreads I say
Cool chamaeleon glitter though, and what an awesome festival!

Comment on Morriston camera Club, Blists Hill Victorian Town by JohnK

JohnK — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:13:43 +0000

Alex, if the slide show you sent me is all your own work – then you have nothing to worry about. Some really great pictures in there.

To answer some of your questions…
The wedding was put on for the tourists (despite their absence!), and they played it for real. I’m not sure if he went as far as bedding his bride, but she looked as if she was up for it!

Now go and wash your mouth out! “Snapshot?!” Painting with light darling !!!! (A quote from Tony Hancock). I’ve been doing this for Nearly fifty years – had my first camera when I was 12. The digital revolution has set photographers free. We can now experiment wildly without worrying about the cost of film and processing.Photoshop just opens up a wonderful new world. I just wish that I could understand more of it. Most of my work is done ‘in camera’ because of my lack of Photoshop knowledge.

Yes, we could start an artists colony, preferably in Oz (the light is better). You could be my muse ! In exchange for modelling for me I could give you tips on photography. It’s a bit of a one sided deal I know, but my modelling days are over!

Seb is returning next week – we will probably be photographing a week long body-painting festival. I’ll ensure that he leaves his bike at home.

Lots & lots of love John

We will have to agree on a start date for project 365. I love the idea. how about January 1st?

Comment on Morriston camera Club, Blists Hill Victorian Town by Alex C

Alex C — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:28:36 +0000

So did you know the bride and groom or was it a random wedding that you gate crashed lol?
Awesome photos – I know if I took a picture of a room full of machinery, for example, it would just look like a pile of old junk but you have the photographers magic of capturing the essence.

Yes, the essence is the key I think. To be able to take a snapshot of a time and place and evoke the same feelings in the person looking at the photo afterwards as they would have had if they had been there.

I have struggled for just under 100 days with my Project 365 in the hope that I might glean something that will bring me closer to the magic but aside from a few lucky shots I don’t feel any closer to the secret. Now, with working full time again, college two nights a week and heaps of homework I have made the regrettable but necessary decision to put Project 365 on hold until I am less stressed.

One day, given the right circumstances and obviously location I would love to take you and Carol up on your offer to spend some time in Clydach. Perhaps I could pick up a thing or two. You could set up as an artists retreat. There is definitely something about your place that brings out creativeness. Maybe it’s the peace and tranquility. I’m quite jealous of Seb

Comment on Amazing Dog by Alex C

Alex C — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:12:31 +0000

Lol

Comment on Caption Competition by IrinaM

IrinaM — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:38:29 +0000

“Am I any taller this way up?”

Comment on Caption Competition by ChrisM

ChrisM — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:30:39 +0000

The lyrics rang a bell, but for some reason I thought it was an Amy Winehouse track for some reason. However a couple of days later I searched through my hard drive on title rather than relying on the artist. I found the song, and then the next day, we heard it being performed live by a local Russian singer! See http://chrismerriman.com/better-than-expected/

How about “Father very carefully & securely holds his daughter upside down, as she really enjoys seeing the world from that perspective, and at no point was any shaking involved whatsoever”. Less of an entrant for the caption competition, more of a case of making things clear to anyone who hasn’t met Anna and seen her enjoy being topsy turvy

Comment on The Storys Farewell Gig by ChrisM

ChrisM — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:09:22 +0000

I still think it may be a user based error re. links on this blog. Some day we’ll export all the data out of this blog, remove it, do a completely fresh re-install, re import all the data, and try with a new theme. If the problem remains, we’ll know it isn’t the server’s fault.
Great now I have purple splotches in my vision… I got distracted by the shadow of a tree on the bathroom door. Confused by the impossibility of the sun’s position that would be required to put a shadow of a tree on the door, I investigated. Someone is doing some heavy duty welding about 2km away. Once I had figured out it was welding and not a reflection in a window, I had buggered my sight up temporarily.

Comment on Police & Photographers by Alex C

Alex C — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:25:23 +0000

Wow, that’s unbelievable, and scary. We live in such a fear controlled paranoid world that as soon as a camera appears people think it’s going to be used for negative purposes.
This is why I find taking my 365s difficult sometimes. I get paranoid about people getting paranoid lol, and it prevents me just whipping my camera out at random places. I don’t like standing out in a crowd and there’s nothing like a snapping camera to get people looking.

Comment on Police & Photographers by ChrisM

ChrisM — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:34:12 +0000

Embedded the video.
It looks like you accidentally deleted the /a between the pointy brackets in your link, so I fixed that as well.

If you ever want to embed a YouTube video, visit the video’s page, click the Embed button below the video, and choose how you want it to look. (Colour and size basically). Copy the code it gives you, paste it into a post (leave a blank line above and below it, to prevent any accidentals mistyping or deleting of code by your fingers ). Publish the post. It has taken me longer to write this, than it would for you to embed your next video

Comment on The Storys Farewell Gig by John Kav

John Kav — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:27:30 +0000

Oh, I’m so glad it’s not just me!!! I’ve been loading photos on to Facebook all morning – and now I can’t do it. I’m sure the machine is challenging me as some sort of experiment. Maybe I just need more coffee.

Comment on Caption Competition by John Kav

John Kav — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:23:42 +0000

You are on line for the first prize so far Alex!

Comment on The Storys Farewell Gig by Alex C

Alex C — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:00:08 +0000

Yay, it worked that time. But Guru Chris – I did NOTHING different! It’s glitchy I’m telling you!

Comment on The Storys Farewell Gig by Alex C

Alex C — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:59:08 +0000

Well I don't know what it is with me but it's not the drink lol. Here's another go at the Oz BB link. I'm on a different computer too, not that that makes a difference.

Comment on Caption Competition by Alex C

Alex C — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:52:21 +0000

“Despite vigorous shaking the jelly bean dispenser appeared to be empty”

Comment on Gwen’s Summer Haircut by John Kav

John Kav — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:24:59 +0000

I’m hoping that the walks given to her by Chris & John Webb while we are away may trim her down a bit. It’s just that she finds this walking lark so stressful, and would rather be eating or sleeping!

Comment on Gwen’s Summer Haircut by IrinaM

IrinaM — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:20:06 +0000

I think we should get a treadmill for Gwen at Christmas!

Comment on Caption Competition by John Kav

John Kav — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:59:17 +0000

Maybe “Australian Baby rearing therapy is questioned”

Comment on Caption Competition by JohnK

JohnK — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:53:13 +0000

Mum….
“…and the world’s a better place when you’re upside down…sweet about me”

(you need to know the song!)

Comment on Kodo by JohnK

JohnK — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:39:30 +0000

Ah! Embedding video’s – my next lesson

Comment on Kodo by ChrisM

ChrisM — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:20:37 +0000

Hope you don’t mind, I took the liberty of embedding the videos for you. I’ve found some people can’t be bothered to click into a new site, but if offered the option to watch the video on the page they are already reading, will give it some attention
Mind you, that way they’ll miss the opportunity to press the little football icon you get when watching these vids on YouTube directly, to add that authentic World Cup background noise

Comment on The Storys Farewell Gig by JohnK

JohnK — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:08:47 +0000

It’s not difficulty – it’s senility. Not in Alex’s case of course – that’s just the drink.

I want to know more about Aussie Big Bro now??!! Link please

Comment on The Storys Farewell Gig by ChrisM

ChrisM — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:19:38 +0000

hmmm.
Maybe I’m assuming the worst of everyone.
OK, I want a link on the word boing that leads to google
So I’ll put boing. If that works, I’ll know it is a user confusion level error, not a blog needs sorting error

EDIT
Yep, that worked fine adding the link by hand.
I’m now editing this comment in WordPress admin interface, which looks very similar to the post editing interface, just with few bells and whistles removed.
The following link is not hand crafted, but by using the link button instead.
boing

EDIT 2
OK, that also worked fine first time. I’ll draw my own conclusions re. you two having difficulties

Comment on The Storys Farewell Gig by Alex C

Alex C — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:25:58 +0000

Nope, oh master I have failed you That’s John speak for bollox now! The link isn’t even a link. Now I’m sure I’ve done something really really silly and masterly guru is going to cause me to hang my head in shame

Comment on The Storys Farewell Gig by Alex C

Alex C — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:22:38 +0000

Ohhhhhhh, well now I’ve got to have another try but I tell you it didn’t work at all the second time I tried.
Ok, so have a look here for some scary stuff about Big Brother in Australia

This post’s turning into an experiment zone John.