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Standing on the rocks
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When I was up in Scotland some time ago I was playing around with a few out of focus shots.
This is a shot of Em standing on the rocks looking out at the Irish Sea. I’m not sure if it actually make for a good shot or not.
I have dulled down the colors to give it more of a sliloete look about it.
Let me know what you think…. Interesting or Rubbish?
Sticky the Insect
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Every time I look at this shot I keep thinking he look like a plastic toy…. however I can ensure you that he is real and also very interested in what us humans were up to sitting round the table.
The Clear
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One of the bays in Paleokastritsa.
This shot was taken sitting at my table drinking a nice cold beer. LUSH!
The Bay
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Looking out across Paleokastritsa bay just before sunset.
The boats are a little blurry due to the tide and the longer then normal shutter speed.
Revolving, Drinking, Boat.
It’s been gone since the 10th of Aug 2008 and lets be honest with ourselves no body cares one little bit. 10 months without the “Boat” on the Newcastle/Gateshead Quay Side and the tyne looks like a better place without it.
I was there on the day that it was removed from the tyne an event that lots of people where there to see but I thought it was about time to remind you all how much better the place looks with the revolving dance floor monstrosity of a night club on a boat gone.
I have two memory’s of being on the Boat, the first was a 30th birthday night out with a group of now work colleagues that at the time I didn’t work with. It was an drunken evening that involved two incidents. The first an inflatable naked girl that we insisted the Birthday boy carry with him the whole night. She actually got the most attention of any girl in the night club that night. Crowd surfing on the revolving dance floor getting us to the front of every queue at the bar before she was sent home a little too drunk and deflated.
The second incident was one of the lads on the night out; tripping over the chain railings that acted at barriers to stop people crossing the road at unsafe points along the Newcastle side of the quay side. He hit the ground teeth, face and arm first. After ½ a pint of whisky to numb the pain he was in, we headed onto the boat. The next morning I woke up on his sofa and had to task of helping him get ready for work. Drowning his pain with whisky while I had to help with his tie due to damaged arm. Then he was off to work, pissed, in pain and two teeth short of a mouth full. Fun times.
I would love to hear any stories you have from being on the boat if for no other reason that to remind us all why it’s a good think that it is gone. If you think I’m wrong and that the tyne looked like a better place with the boat there let me know why.
Paul and Sara
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Picture Postcard
So I am back in the UK after my week in Corfu.
The heat was unbelievable with an average temperature of 36c and a max of 42c.
The reason I was there? Well mainly it was for my brother wedding witch was great and I wish Paul and Sara all the best. My make a great couple. (Love you both)
However it was also to have a holiday and get some pictures. So here is my Generic Postcard shot.
It was taken after a 40minute walk/climb up the side of one of the many rocky hill around the island. The Shot looks across two to the many bay that make up most of Paleokastritsa.
Let me know what you think.
Switch it
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This was taken when I was in the Bladnoch Distillery in Scotland. It is the main power switching room for the Distillery. I only had a few second to get the shot as I wasn’t suposted to be in the room, with a little but more time I could have pulled together a much better photo but I do still like the craziness of the number of switches.
Vodka
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Taken when out on the Newcastle Photo Walk (#NPwalk18).
A random empty bottle of Vodka strategically placed next to a war remembrance monument on the side on a church. The street is a notorious student accommodation area in Newcastle so I can only imagine that it was placed while some drunken bum was on their way home.