Sunday 26 October 2014

A tough couple of weeks for photography

with the Magnum great Rene Burri and the American Ray Metzker both passing away recently, the world has lost a couple of very talented individuals. We had dinner with some friends on Friday evening and I was lucky enough to come home with a couple of loaner books on Metzker's work- his black and white photography was just stunning.
Changing the clocks this morning made me think just how close to Christmas and the end of the year we are. I don't know if that is a good thing or not, but we will know more in another month  :-)

Just tossing a picture from our great visit to Piemont last year up on the blog. I don't believe that it has made an appearance before, but I was prompted to show it here after I had printed it and was very happy with the way it came out.

Tune Of The Day:  Gun Street Girl      by Tom Waits

Thursday 16 October 2014

It has been a frustrating week

but it was nice to speak with Mike and decide that we really need to sit down and have a proper drink. It has been far too long.

My Oktoberfest photography challenge is moving along nicely and I am reasonably happy with my work thus far. It is always difficult to produce a good shot each day and the pictures do look quite mismatched, but that is the nature of the beast.

Maybe we can get a few things sorted around the house in the next few weeks and start to enjoy the place.

Tune of the Day:  Lass die Sonne in dein Hertz   by Klopfgeister



Saturday 11 October 2014

I have been busy shooting my picture-a-day challenge and so far it seems to be coming along nicely. There has been a great variety of subject matter so I haven't bothered to limit myself to one particular theme but rather I have tried to capture what has been around me when I have had the camera in hand.

Going to dinner with friends this evening and I really should be going to a concert afterwards but I missed the pre-sale of tickets and I don't fancy standing in a line for a couple of hours at 11 o'clock to buy my way in. A shame. It would have been lots of fun.

Tomorrow morning is an early start to go and take some photos up on the Uetliberg- I'm keeping my fingers crossed for fog!


Tune of the Day:  Tree Of Life    by  Ace Ventura