50mph, Baildon Moor

This view at the time seemed a bit surreal - can't put my finger on why, and I'm sure this photo has no meaning whatsoever to anyone else. Maybe it was the interesting textures, maybe it was the isolated nature of the road, markings and signs in what was otherwise a bleak and desolate surrounding. Shame about the filter starting to vignette a little at the top corners.





The weather was getting worse, and by the time me and Niczy scaled the top of Baildon Moor, visibility was extremely poor for around 2 in the afternoon. It felt like somewhat of an achievement getting up there after a long walk but we didn't stay long, and quickly navigated our way down with a view to getting a well deserved pint at the pub around tea time. Good day out.

Bingley Through a Plastic Lens

Okay its not 35mm or transparency film, just a fun diversion on medium format film with a cheap plastic chinese camera called a 'Holga'.

Holga's are great, theres no point trying to use any sort of technique with them so you just end up taking pictures for the pure fun of it. Throw conventional photography rules out the window. Every roll of film back comes with surprises, photos that otherwise may have been uninteresting suddenly become something altogether different in meaning.

Wipe Out Terrorism

You get some wierd stuff in gift shops, but this printed toilet paper has to be one of the most unusual I've seen. It was somewhere in central Manhattan, and is a crude but funny way of fighting back at Bin Laden without force. Can't help but wonder what he'd make of it.

Who Wants a Cookie?

I took this about 1 year ago and ever since still haven't been able to figure out what causes the green mist just above the horizon. Any ideas?


Send the correct answer in a SAE to me and I'll return it with a cookie. Or I might just eat the cookie.

Hazardous Work

This image was harder to make than it shouldve been. There I was, in what I *thought* was an empty field, freezing my arse off messing with this camera and tripod, when I hear someone shouting "get out of there". It was only my trusty assistant, safe and warm in his car, telling me about a herd of cattle approaching. "Nah they're just cows, and they're nowhere near, no problem" I replied. Proceeding to make a few more shots, I then turned round to take another look at these cows, only to find they were actually a herd of bulls (the type of cows with big horns), slowly walking up to me, extremely close, and looking a tad angry.

I moved a little. They moved a little. I see what you're doing there bulls. Slowly, calmly, I grabbed the tripod, and then legged it as fast as I could, leaping over the barbed wire fence to safety - a close shave.

A bit disappointed afterwards, I didn't think I'd had time to get anything of use, but was later surprised to find most of the images had turned out fine.

Bingley, Summer 2008 at around 9.30pm

Donnington Park

What a stunning collection they have in their museum - over 130 Formula 1 cars, the largest collection in the world as far as I'm aware. Pretty much every McLaren ever made before 1996, all the Williams Honda turbo cars, Mansell's championship winning FW14b, Damon Hill's championship winning FW18, his father Graham Hill's Lotus 49 with the super-high rear wing. Too many stunning cars to list.


The best part was how quiet the place is - the whole museum only had a couple of other people there that we passed. You had the whole place to yourself - no glaring supervisors, no crowds, no noise. You could go so close to these cars, you could touch them if you wanted (although im sure you're not supposed to), you could smell them. Incredible.

Shotgun Shooting

I didn't even realise you could do this in the UK any more! Good fun though, and a great day to do it - clear and sunny. I'd never fired a gun before, so hitting all 3 clays on the first 3 tries was pretty cool!

its great how the spent cartridges fly out with the flick of a switch