8th

OK, so my last picture didn't get placed, which does disappoint me somewhat. However, I finished 8th in the Amateur Photographer of the Year Competition in AP magazine. Which, given that I stuffed up my first two entries, isn't too bad. ONWARD!

RNIB - the new cool?

Bought a couple of watches at the RNIB shop in London today. Check them out here. Two for less than the price of changing the battery on my old watch.... what's not to like?

Unicyle and Commuter

Young Blue Eyes

Covent Garden Red

Covent Garden

This is one of those irritating pictures that nearly works. But doesn't. And I am tempted to delete it for all eternity but can't bring myself to do so at the moment.

Enjoy Yourself? In Europe? Don't be ridiculous.

So the EU is quieting down all our mp3 players. How wonderful. We'll be struggling to hear our music over the announcements on the train telling us we're all in danger from Alan Kye Eeda and his mates or the same thing on the platform.... In related news, next year computer screens are to be made smaller to save our eyes.

Globalization

Oooh, Gotham baby, Gotham!

I like the design of the clock.

One Canada Square plus Light

Spot the Crouton

So this was taken with a manual focus 85mm f/2 lens. I reckon if I had tried the same thing with an autofocus, I wouldn't have got the shot. Pre-focusing - its the real deal.

One Canada Square

Bicycle Park

Devotion

Happy Christmas

Drinks, Terrace

I'm doing something wrong. The sky looks horrible in this, and the picture just doesn't have the quality I would like it to. Yet I think that the camera I have is more than capable of rendering this scene in a manner that I would find acceptable - it was taken at ISO 3200 which might sound a lot but which, from following various websites and forums, I understand would normally give rise to better results than this. I must persevere - perhaps I am not "shooting to the right" sufficiently aggressively.

London Eye

Houses of Parliament

Inability to Comment at The Times

Is there some sort of left wing filter on The Times website? I am unable to register there - maybe they don't actually want people pointing out that global warming is about as well validated as the existence of al kai! eeeeeeeda or however it is spelled this week.

The Most "Flickr" Photo Evar

This sums it up nicely in some ways. More here.