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Posts Tagged ‘Photography’
Polaroid film makes a comeback
Good news for all fans of Polaroid – and there are enough Polaroid related Flickr groups to suggest there a lot out there – as The Impossible Project has realised it’s dream of producing new film for Polaroid instant cameras. The new PX Silver Shade Instant Film is optimized for the use in traditional Polaroid [...]
Provide the next Satchel Blue album cover
[update] See the winner here. How would you like to provide the design or photograph for the next Satchel Blue album cover? Our fifth album, Another Fine Day, is due for release in February and we’d like your ideas for the front cover. There’s no prize as such, but if you’ve got the perfect cover [...]
My First Book: Canada by James Thornett
Anyone who keeps a watchful eye on my Flickr photostream will have noticed that I recently found the time to trawl through the photographs that made it back from my Canada trip earlier this year and upload over 100 of the best. I’ve been wanting to create my own photo book for ages and, with [...]
Polaroid coming back in 2010
Following my recent post about my late entry into Polaroid I’m very excited to read that The Impossible Project looks to have succeeded in it’s aim to bring instant film technology back to production. As reported in The Independent, the project will be producing 1 million new films in 2010, with more to follow in [...]
Adventures in Polaroid Photography
Polaroid stopped making their particular brand of instant camera film in June 2008, approximately one year after they halted production of the instant cameras that made the company it’s name. Much has been made of the attempts by The Impossible Project to bring the technology back to life – an attempt to capitalise on that [...]
James Thornett Photography To Buy
Finally got around to setting up a Photobox gallery to sell some of my own prints. Only a couple up at the moment but will try and work through the back catalogue over the coming weeks. All the random stuff is still making it onto Flickr of course.
Birmingham Photospace – Flash Swap Exhibtion
Gutted! I’m away when this is on but I suggest anyone in the Birmingham area on Saturday 21st March should go along and take part. Basically, take along some of your own prints to be included in the exhibition and, for every one of your own that you are willing to give away, you can [...]
Photo Travel Diary – 2004/05
I’ve finally finished scanning in my photo-a-day travel experience from 2004/05 – and it only took just under 5 months. I wasn’t exactly working around the clock to achieve this but it certainly illustrates the effort required to digitise old media. In total, 336 photographs covering 11 months spent in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and [...]
My 2004/05 Travel Photo Diary
In October 2004 I left the UK with a rucksack, a one way ticket to Sydney, Australia, and no idea what I was going to do for the next 12 months. Each day I took one photo on my 35mm Fuji compact camera with the date function turned on. I have now, nearly four years [...]
Flickr goes video
So, the “…best online photo management and sharing application in the world.“ has now introduced the ability to upload video. Admittedly you are currently only able to upload 90 second clips and, according to the video FAQs, there are two ground rules: 1. Only “safe” and “moderate” video content is permitted. Your “beautiful wife” should [...]
Band Photos
Blimey, it’s been a while and there’s plenty been happening. However, more of that very soon. In the meantime, check out The 20 Worst Band Photos from Spinner.com. My particular favourite is the Freedom Fighters at number 19 (left). “First we form a band, then we get a dented van … then we’ll get the [...]
Christmas in Birmingham
Take 4 of the cheapest disposable cameras available in Sainsbury’s, which happens to be a model in the Sainsbury’s Basics range, cover the viewfinders with plenty of parcel tape, scratch the front of the lens on two of the cameras with a wire scrubber and on the other two use fluorescent highlighter pens to colour [...]
Iceland, it’s fantastic!
No, not this: …this: Plenty more of my Iceland photos on Flickr.
Spell with flickr
Some time ago I had what I thought was a great idea. It centred around trying to give a bit more focus to my photography whilst being more creative at the same time. Without going into all of the boring detail it basically involved taking pictures of a whole variety of typography, signage, lettering etc [...]
Birmingham, B29
After living in the B29 postcode district of Birmingham for a cumulative total of around 8 years now I’ve always been struck by the amazing diversity in landscape, wealth and general surroundings. Recently an idea had been growing to get out there with my camera gear and spend a few months attempting to document this [...]
…and then it really started to rain.
…and then it really started to rain. Originally uploaded by thornj. Welcome to the longest day of the year, the summer solstice, pretty much midsummer (not Midsomer to those TV detective types out there!), and the day referred to as 21st June 2007 according my calendar. Doesn’t look like any of those outside my window.
My photos in action
Following on from my previous post about who is linking to my Flickr photos I decided to use the crawling power of Technorati and the storage of del.icio.us to take a closer look. It only took a matter of minutes to perform the search on Technorati, store the pages within del.icio.us tagged with a specific [...]
Who’s linking to my Flickr photos?
While trying to work out why my picture of Morecambe fans at Wembley on 20th May has had over 400 views on Flickr and my picture of the Exeter fans at the other end less than 100 views I stumbled across an interesting trick. Using Technorati’s search feature, enter your main Flickr photo page URL, [...]
clingfilm Photography explained
Following on from my first post, and after setting up a Flickr group dedicated to clingfilm photography, here’s a little more explanation of my initial ‘clingfilm’ images. The camera used was the one picture below which was left at my house after a Christmas party last year. An under five pound secret santa gift of [...]
clingfilm Photography
Hmm, not sure if they teach this in any of the manuals… …but… take the cheapest toy camera you can find, place a screen of screwed up cling film behind the shutter, slot in some very cheap colour film, and snap away. The results of my first attempts in Wales a couple of weeks ago [...]
So I went to Wales…
… for a week and did some sightseeing (most impressively, Harlech Castle and Criccieth Castle), play a round of golf at Pen Y Berth (well, 9 holes anyway), walked up the 59th and the 40-somethingth highest peaks in Snowdonia (according to a book in the house we were staying in at Croesor), spent far too [...]
Paris, at last!
I can’t believe it took me so long to visit Paris but I’m definitely glad I have and it looks like it will be the first of many visits. Not only is it extremely easy to get there from Birmingham – particularly if you live within easy reach of Birmingham airport – but it also [...]
Let it snow, let is snow (etc…)
From a sunny day at the beach to a snow covered winter landscape in just a few days – isn’t weather absolutely fascinating. It’s no wonder that we spend the majority of our time talking about it. It did also provide the opportunity for me to take yet another photo of Selly Park from (roughly) [...]
Kylie in Manchester
Kylie was fantastic and so were the colourfully and creatively dressed members of the audience – but what a shame that there were too many men and women in yellow jackets stalking around and stopping anyone from taking photos. The venue website was even at pains to point out that even photos taken with mobile [...]
