Tag Archive for 'holidays'

Shakycam is Go!

What was intended to be a mostly entertaining way for me to record and review my very limited off-road jaunts while in the UK in April has turned into a public service video on the effects of motion sickness and a case study on why people buy those expensive little helmet cameras. While I wasn’t expecting Steven Spielberg results, I imagined in what I now know was supreme, unwavering naivety that I might get something other than a dodgy late 1990′s horror movie.

This is a very cut down version of the full experience, I didn’t want to subject anyone to the full six minutes. My most sincere apologies to sufferers of motion sickness and indeed to those that contract acute motion sickness as a result of viewing the above. Next on the shopping list, a helmet camera and possibly an Adobe Premier manual.

Published on June 17, 2011 in Landscape, Panasonic LX-3, UK and Video. 2 Comments

Chelsea Hotel

Chelsea Hotel
On arriving in the city and settling into the hotel (not this one though), what do you think the first thing we did was? Took a stroll around the streets in the direction of B&H of course…

Published on November 2, 2009 in Canon 24-70, Canon 5D and Event. 1 Comment

Hello down there!

Hello down there!
Julie, having deposited her 50¢ into the curiously designed binocular coin box, proceeded to spy on the unsuspecting habitants of New York City. The crafty devil…

Published on October 15, 2009 in Black and White, Canon 5D, Event, Landscape and People. 0 Comments

Rockafeller

The Rockafeller Plaza, where if you\’re not careful while using a fantastically wide lens, you\’ll end up getting the buildings behind you in the frame. Or becoming quite dizzy. Or both…

Published on September 22, 2009 in Canon 5D, Event, Landscape and Sigma 12-24. 0 Comments

Keep Right

Keep Right
When crossing the Brooklyn bridge, it\’s important to keep to the right of the white line. I learned this after seeing several tourists nearly getting taken out by locals cycling by at breakneck speeds. Also, I\’ve become unimaginably attached to my sigma 12-24 already

Published on September 18, 2009 in Canon 5D, Landscape, People and Sigma 12-24. 1 Comment

France on a Bike

France on a Bike
August 2004. Having bought a great big monster of a tourer, I came to the decision to take it around France on a 2,500 mile round trip down the west coast and back up the midlands to Paris. France really is an odd country. I\’d never been there before and I think next time I\’d be a lot wiser in my travel plans. No more camp sites and no more service station diners thanks. But I did get the opportunity to further explore my childish side, as you can clearly see. Bike holidays ftw!

Published on September 7, 2009 in Event, Film, Landscape and People. 1 Comment