Snaps

I did a shoot with my friend Fiona again last week. I found it hard to get inspired and even though I spent over 7 hours at hers I only came away with a handfull of images that I'm actually happy with. Next time I must be more prepared with ideas!

It was a great day, even though my mojo was dead. We ended up on the vodka and discussing future shoots we want to do. It's so cliche but we're both pretty keen to do images like at the begining of Ginger Snaps.

Keep watching till it gets to the photos the girls take to hand in for school.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx0smKQtG6A

So here is the first 'dead' image of Fiona.

Just so goth.

Predictable Flickr

I made my flickr just the other day. I've added some more images to it in the past hour or so. The image which has the most views is the one of my friend Fiona holding up the photo of boobs in front of her. I only added that one about half an hour ago and already its got a lot more views than any other images. Oh predictable flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48766403@N06/

Flickr

Ok, I've done it... I've created a flickr account. I'm not sure if I'm happy about this or not. I've always thought about flickr is being somewhere that people put photos to validate them. They only put photos on to get "nice" comments about them. Anyway, I actually know quite a lot of people with Flickr accounts that are not that sort of person at all, so I figured I may as well give it a shot. I may end up not using it, or I may end up loving it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48766403@N06/

I don't even know if that's the right link to give you...

Glasgow's lanes.

Glasgow's lanes mostly smell of either pee or booze, but sometimes you can find wee gems in them.

Can I smell wet dog?!

It took me forever to get home today. The heavens opened up mid afternoon and the wind was so strong I thought I'd get swept off my feet! So, due to these 'adverse weather conditions' Scotrain weren't coping very well and my train was terminated at Cathcart. I love Cathcart, so actually didn't really mind waiting about to be picked up and taken home. I had my boyfriend Ande (blog) with me, and even though cars were splashing us and the wind was making it almost impossible to stand up, it wasn't actually too bad standing about.

Waiting under the railway bridge in Cathcart also meant that I saw a beautiful little dog waiting for it's owner outside Beechings Bar. The wee thing must have been getting soaked but it just stood stairing into the pub, until I managed to catch his attention and he looked right at me whilst I was shooting him.

Two minutes later the dogs owner came outside, said something to his dog, then they both went into the pub together.

It took a lot longer for me to get into a nice warm place, I should have just joined them for a drink!

'Magic Hour'

I shot these images for my uni 'Magic Hour' brief. I used my flash on camera and placed colour gels over the flash to get the colour you see in these images. The first one here was shot early in the morning as the sun rose through thick fog, the other images were taken in Kelvingrove Park at about 4.30 on Friday as the sun was setting. Although on Friday the sunset was rather non-existent, it really just got dark. As you can see I ended up going for something completely different that the portraits I had initially thought of doing.

Not sure which 3 I'll hand in as my finals tomorrow, so any feed back is more than welcome!

Also, just because he's brilliant, here is a photo of my budgie Pepsi.

Old 35mm image.

I love Glasgows tenement flats. I would love to live in one again some day.