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2009 – What’s in a number?

Monday, December 28th, 2009

January

Movieboy was probably my first big project at glue and it ended in January, everyone was very happy and it was a great way to start the year. I also spent a lot of time exploring the area i’d just moved to, Woolwich. For the most part it was not particularly welcoming.

Movieboy

Dangerous structures


February

This month saw a number of beautiful sunsets and some rather random snow.

Sunset on approach

Penthouse

Woolwich arsenal

City of London


March

I took a pretty nifty picture of the Thames Barrier but that was about it for March. I got my shoelace stuck in some train doors, where i remained for most of the month.

Thames Barrier

Oh dear.


April

The G20 protests occurred in April and i used my lunch hour to attempt to document them as best i could. Ultimately the photos were not very good, but after March i was just happy i didn’t get my shoelace caught in anything.

RBS

Crowds on threadneedle

The earpiece, ruler of emotions...


May

Throughout May i was very busy training for the London to Brighton so photos on anything non bike related were quite thin on the ground.

Cycling

Life in the BUS LANE


June

This month held more training, and the event itself. In the end i raised about £260 for the British Heart Foundation. Thanks to all the donors :)

What's in your bag?

Cycling along.

Nearly there!


July

In July I went to Barcelona to see some friends from university get married, then hopped over to Rome to see a little more of Europe.

Phonecall

Sunset coming into Rome

Rob & Jess

Petals

Some building (at night)

The creation of Adam


August

Given the ridiculous number of photos i took in July, August was mostly spent processing them. There was however time for some photos here and there.

Tea at the end of the rainbow

Watch

The London Flyby


September

In September i decided to start taking Mondays off work. This time was used to wander London taking photos and build my photography website.

London Bridge

Upgrades

Cranes at play

Tower Bridge


October

As the season was changing i took a trip to Kew Gardens to enjoy the colours while planning the last bit of the approaching month.

Autumn

Paths

Fall to the floor

Sackler Crossing


November

An unexpected (but amazing) trip to Florida to see the Space Shuttle Atlantis launch took up most of November.

NASA

Nasatweetup STS-129 photos

Atlantis

Roll

Spaceman


December

The twelfth and final month of the year, where i visited some friends in Vienna.

Now boarding

Snow dusting

Lights


2009 was definately a busy and amazing year. It’s going to be hard for 2010 to top it but i’m sure going to try… Rather generic new years resolutions are going to run along the lines of:

-Try and spend more time with my friends
-Take more photos in day to day life (and generally work on improving my photography skills, particularly portrait)

Pretty dull, but i think they’re good ‘uns. There are more things i want to achieve in 2010, but they’re better placed on a todo list. Hopefully this christmas present will help me with the portrait photos:
The Amber Spyglass... 35mm edition

A delightful new lens, 35mm f/1.8!

So long 2009, you were wonderful!

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A post about phone operators/phones

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

So Orange and T-Mobile eh?

orange mobile

That’s a new one. The logo i’ve hastily fashioned makes me what a tequila sunrise. I know somebody who only yesterday was telling me they were ditching t-mobile (and their lovely HTC hero) for o2 because, while they loved the hero, t-mobile reception was pants. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out what their next handset will be.

I recently moved away from my beloved Sony Ericsson K610i:
K610i

To a Sony Ericsson C902:
C902

It was a tough move, after two years i finally got annoyed enough by the lack of decent camera in the k610i and went back to the cybershot range. So far i’m very pleased with the C902. The camera is much better, but i’m not sure i’m yet at David Bailey status with a phone. (Very annoyed that the gallery of images for that adventure still isn’t online, over a week late)

Here’s some examples of shots from flickrites with what i consider to be a minimal/acceptable level of retouching:

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Maybe this will be my next phone. Finally, a model which solves my txt-ing and walking into people problem. The Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA Pure, with a translucent screen and contrast ratio to squint for:

Sony pureness
(source)

If they were able to up the contrast, this would actually be a really pointless but great looking screen. At the moment, it’s absolutely rubbish, sunlight will make it useless.

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