Fishermen // April 06, 2005
[Eeeek! After a pretty bad hacking incident I think I've managed to get the site back together again. The bastards used my server to send about 35GB of spam mail in 2 days - sorry if any went to you :-) So I've used up all my bandwidth for this month and everything will be running really slowly until about the 6th May. The hackers got in through a vulnerability in AwStats. If you using AwStats please check their website and your version number - it could happen to you!]
Thanks for all your comments on the previous shot. It received more comments than any other photo on 'not as if...' so far. I could speculate why that is, but it probably doesn't pay to get too hung up on these things. Anyway, for those who think I attend weird occult ceremonies or Klan meetings, it was actually a piece of performance art involving fire and sound at a local arts centre.
Today's shot is back on the beach at Aldeburgh. These guys must love their fishing. It was blowing a gale but they were happy sat in their matching tents. How sweet.
On a technical note, I've been reading about sensor cleaning because I've gone and got a hair on my sensor. I'm not sure how it got there because I'm really careful about lens changing. I think I'm going to go for the 'Pixel Sweeper' approach as described on Petteri's site. (By the way, there is loads of interesting stuff about composition on this site). If I don't make any more updates then you know I've trashed my camera :-O.
Cordite // April 02, 2005
Fire wouldn't usually be my first choice for a b&w subject, but I think it works with this shot.
Drilling for Oil // April 01, 2005
A change from the recent floral shots...
This is the Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre, an amazing building providing office and laboratory space for developing oil rigs. Its roof is made out of Teflon-coated glass-fiber membrane suspended from a steel superstructure - the same technology used for the Millenium Dome. To get an idea of the scale, check out the little guy sat in his office on the far left.
A technical aside...
