The God Cell

Facebook

2011-12-18T17:17:00.007Z

As part of my shameless self-promotion I am encouraging everybody I know to go and 'like' my Facebook page. Now a lot of people who read this won't, because they probably take photos themselves and don't want to be seen to be encouraging 'the competition'. This is a shame because I'd like to think that if the cap was on the other lens I would go and 'like' their page. In fact I promise right now infront of all those here present that I will go and 'like' your page if you 'like' mine!

Regardless, if you have read this I would ask you to go and 'like' the aforementioned page.

Thank you.

Chev

2011-12-08T20:41:00.003Z

On the way home from work this evening I noticed that some painted road chevrons have appeared on on the coastbound side of the M2... And then they dried up completely in one lane, but there is half a mile of 'half-chevrons', or 'chevs' in the outside lane... Why didn't they just stop?

A-Mended

2011-11-30T20:25:00.003Z

I may have spoken too soon; it would appear the camera is not working with ANY of my batteries today, so either it is completely knackered or ALL of my batteries need charging - including the one that was in it!

Mended

2011-11-28T21:38:00.005Z

... Oh, I forgot to mention... The E-520 is working again. Apparently it was just a duff battery. Yay!

Website

2011-10-25T22:47:00.003+01:00

Business Cards

2011-10-15T10:43:00.004+01:00

I have to produce some business cards for my current exhibition, but am having problems trying to decide on the design - any suggestions? These are what I have come up with so far...

Distressed

2011-10-09T17:30:00.002+01:00

Broken

2011-10-08T15:33:00.006+01:00

The E-520 is dead. Long live the E-520.

After a mysterious fall from the kitchen counter my Olympus E-520 has ceased functioning as it should.

And now... £20.00 later... I have to wait to find out if the camera can be repaired. In the mean time I have to resort back to the E-500, which has a line of dead pixels and every frame will need cloning. Ho-hum.

Returning back to the E-500 has reminded me of some of the functions the E-520 has which I have gotten used to; auto rotate on playback; playback memory; speed to write to CF; speed of autofocus, and so on...

Beasties

2011-08-27T10:57:00.008+01:00

Mr. Men Songs

2011-08-14T13:35:00.015+01:00

The small person has recently discovered a joy of the Mr. Men and I remembered that when my brother, sister and I were young we used to have an old '33' of Mr. Men songs we constantly listened to on an old gramophone. I borrowed the vinyl from my parents and transferred it to CD...

... We have been listening to it for 4 days now...

... It's still a great album!

Track Listings:

1. Let's Go To Misterland

2. Mr Sneeze

3. Mr Silly's Nonsenseland Band

4. Daydreaming

5. Mr Topsy-Turvy

6. Mr Greedy's Little Light Lunch

7. The Happy Song

8. Mr Tickle

9. Nosey Nosey

10. Christmas Snow

11. Mr Bump

12. Mr Small

All contents © copyright CBS 1976

Scrap

2011-07-29T22:08:00.001+01:00

Video

2011-07-03T07:39:00.011+01:00

If you like this, or even if you don't please like our Facebook page - we need 25 likes before we can title the page!

Cool Groovy Nice Smooth

2011-07-02T20:15:00.001+01:00

Digital College

2011-06-25T10:50:00.003+01:00

Sofa

2011-05-30T08:51:00.003+01:00

Hairy

2011-05-28T15:30:00.005+01:00

Maiden Sweedin (Demo Version)

2011-05-22T08:48:00.002+01:00

A Mile Away (Demo Version)

2011-05-21T08:56:00.003+01:00

Wheel

2011-05-14T10:24:00.002+01:00

Duncan & Rachael

2011-05-13T20:00:00.001+01:00

Frankenstein's Mushroom

2011-05-09T21:41:00.006+01:00

It would appear my mushroom growing is not quite going to plan... Having followed the instructions on the box I have ended up with one monstrous mushroom... At least I think it is a mushroom...

Brenda & Joel

2011-05-07T22:22:00.003+01:00

Dead Bird

2011-05-01T18:30:00.004+01:00

Giant's Garden

2011-04-29T22:20:00.003+01:00

Switch

2011-04-28T15:38:00.001+01:00

Greenhouse

2011-04-10T23:00:00.002+01:00

Pear

2011-04-06T22:48:00.003+01:00

PS Project - Butterflies

2011-03-13T22:23:00.001Z

PS Project - Focus

2011-03-08T22:56:00.002Z

PS Project - Singer

2011-03-06T22:26:00.004Z

PS Project - Keyboard

2011-02-20T21:33:00.004Z

Steve & Mel

2011-02-13T22:56:00.003Z

Kaitlin & Steve

2011-02-13T12:05:00.003Z

Kaitlin & Mel

2011-02-13T11:05:00.003Z

Robin

2011-02-08T21:56:00.002Z

Buffalo

2011-01-07T20:15:00.000Z

Wolf

2011-01-06T20:13:00.000Z

Owl

2011-01-05T20:10:00.001Z

Otter

2011-01-04T08:04:00.000Z

Fallow Deer

2011-01-03T08:01:00.000Z

Missing Lynx

2011-01-02T07:54:00.000Z

Boar

2011-01-01T07:49:00.005Z

Red Deer

2010-12-31T07:44:00.001Z

Fox

2010-12-30T07:09:00.003Z

Pier

2010-12-12T21:39:00.002Z

50 - Small World

2010-12-08T21:59:00.004Z

Big News

2010-12-08T20:08:00.006Z

For any of you who regularly follow my scrawlings you will know that for my 3rd (not second) anniversary my lovely wife bought me a medium format camera. I have been putting off committing light to film for a month and a half using my 'toy camera', but inspired by the recent change in weather - and there is a lot of it in Maidstone - I ventured out during my lunchtime and finally took my first image on film for many years. I also took a similar shot on my E-520, which I may post in the coming days, or later this evening (depending on whether I get all my other work done first), so a comparison between the two may be drawn.

Mermaid (Re-visited)

2010-11-28T13:54:00.002Z

News (Revisited)

2010-11-28T10:32:00.002Z

Seasalter (Revisited)

2010-11-06T23:21:00.001Z

Toadstool

2010-10-31T20:22:00.003Z

12 - Shooting Smoke

2010-10-24T09:54:00.004+01:00

34 - Snoot

2010-10-23T17:30:00.003+01:00

I am very proud of myself; I have just made my very first 'Snoot'. It is simply crafted out of cardboard and duct tape and superglue. Hurrah!

Brave

2010-10-20T21:34:00.011+01:00

For our 3rd wedding anniversary my lovely wife has bought me a medium format camera. This is something I have wanted for at least 10 years since I first started talking to Tim Fagan about them and the advantages medium and large format cameras have over 35mm for landscape photography. The only problem I face now is finding the courage to commit an image to the first of the 12 6x6cm exposures I get per film. Scary stuff. There's no select and delete function on this camera. For that matter is has no WB, function settings, autofocus, LCD, or IS. It is what it is.

It is what they call a 'Toy Camera', it is wonderfully primative and it will present me with the opportunity to shoot quality rather than quantity. Having said that, my wife has wisely bought me 5 films to go with it!

So happy anniversary wife, here's to a happy three years and the next three with you and Ruby standing patiently by whilst I take ages to compose my next masterpiece. You know it will be worth it. :o)

All Saints Flowers

2010-10-12T13:45:00.002+01:00

All Saints Organ

2010-10-11T13:45:00.002+01:00

All Saints

2010-10-10T15:14:00.003+01:00

Lego

2010-10-03T21:28:00.002+01:00

E-520

2010-10-01T21:54:00.005+01:00

Some of you may have noticed that I am now shooting with an E-520, rather than the older E-500 I was using before. This is partly due to my E-500 picking up a row of dead pixels since my wife ran over it with her car - I hasten to add it wasn't her fault; I had left my camera bag propped up against her rear passenger side wheel whilst I was putting the Rubester in the car and forgot to move it before getting in! And secondly, my mate Dave turned 40, and switched from Olympus to Nikon as a result (that's midlife crisis for you!). Needless to say I didn't hesitate to buy his hardly used body and kit lens (and filters, and remote shutter release, and odds and ends...) for a very small amount. In fact, I more or less robbed him. Sorry Dave.

There are a few differences between the two models I really like: Liveview, IS, review recall, continuous shooting, image size...

ps. I really did pay very little for it... Less than it would cost me to get the other camera fixed!

Clown

2010-09-30T21:31:00.000+01:00

Grandma

2010-09-28T13:45:00.002+01:00

Ephraim Waterfall

2010-09-22T21:16:00.003+01:00

Snowdrops

2010-09-11T13:15:00.002+01:00

Flakey

2010-08-29T23:11:00.003+01:00

Wreck

2010-08-28T07:22:00.002+01:00

Huts (Blue)

2010-08-26T13:45:00.003+01:00

Mouse

2010-08-24T13:45:00.002+01:00

Huts (Sepia)

2010-08-23T13:45:00.004+01:00

Bench

2010-08-02T13:45:00.001+01:00

Cans

2010-07-20T13:45:00.001+01:00

Not Big Ben

2010-07-09T13:45:00.000+01:00

Shoe (Revisited)

2010-06-02T19:11:00.000+01:00

Batchelor (Revisited)

2010-06-01T19:13:00.000+01:00

Hoop (Revisited)

2010-05-31T22:10:00.000+01:00

Pet Hate - Digital Delay

2010-05-27T19:45:00.000+01:00

Sometimes I like the delay between the analogue TV in the kitchen and the digital TV in the front room, if for example you are watching something engaging in the former you have time to walk to the front of the house and pick up where you left off. Nice.

Unfortunately, most of the time it annoys me. If for example, I am watching an England penalty in the front room and Kary is watching it in the kitchen whilst preparing the week's baby food. The cheer from the back of the house preceeding my penalty being taken kind of ruins the moment a little.

The thing that annoys me the most though, is the sound. The repetitive noise and dialogue which echoes from one telly to the other. Having to hear the same soap dialogue repeated across the house, the same gameshow laughter, the same panelshow punchlines.

Yet worse still, and I realise this is not a analogue/digital problem, but the natural laws of physics, is sitting in an open office and having to listen to the test cricket from two separate radios 10 metres apart... It's like listening to the longest platform announcement in history...

Mother Christmas (Revisited)

2010-05-25T21:54:00.002+01:00

Safety Point (Revisited)

2010-05-24T22:08:00.002+01:00

Pier End (Revisited)

2010-05-23T21:57:00.002+01:00

Throne

2010-05-23T21:54:00.002+01:00

The Optimist (Revisited)

2010-05-22T21:52:00.000+01:00

Con-Demned

2010-05-11T21:28:00.000+01:00

The UK finally has a new government of sorts...

Galdiator

2010-05-10T22:09:00.002+01:00

Hmm... And this is the BBC? Come on people - spellcheck!

News?

2010-05-10T15:26:00.004+01:00

"I'm outside the meeting of Liberal Democrat MPs at Westminster . Press officers have carried coffees and muffins in. This could go on for a while."

BBC News Correspondent Mike Sergeant

... Is this news? Really, is it? ... But is it though?!

Antenna

2010-05-03T21:55:00.002+01:00

Friday

2010-04-30T23:06:00.004+01:00

The last of the photos from my current project; I didn't realise how hard it would be to photograph, produce and publish every day, whilst also trying to hold down a full time job as well. For the last 25 days I have lost 1-2 hours of sleep a night trying to complete my daily task before my midnightly deadline, and apparently it is beginning to show.

Apeshit

2010-04-30T22:32:00.006+01:00

Looks like someone's been using my image without asking... Tut-tut-tut!

Slide

2010-04-29T22:29:00.005+01:00

Drum

2010-04-28T22:26:00.003+01:00

Bass

2010-04-27T22:52:00.006+01:00

Laptop

2010-04-26T22:27:00.006+01:00

More Richborough

2010-04-25T22:05:00.003+01:00

Richborough

2010-04-25T21:39:00.003+01:00

Russian Doll

2010-04-24T23:25:00.002+01:00

Bookcase

2010-04-23T22:11:00.005+01:00

... I know what you are thinking; yesterday I said I had produced my last HDR image for the week. Well, I had. This is something different, this is a psuedo-HDR, produced using only one 16-bit image...

Sink

2010-04-22T20:33:00.006+01:00

My last HDR for this week - I must do something a bit different before the novelty wears off! I wanted to experiment a bit with colour and DoF with this one; 9 exposures @ 1EV intervals; white balance metered; AP mode to retain DoF and 2sec delay on remote shutter release.

Premeditated

2010-04-21T22:47:00.012+01:00

Another HDR, this time a little more contrived. The intention is that the combination of title and composition of the image convey a specific narrative to the viewer. Ten exposures @ 1EV intervals; white balance metered; AV mode to retain DoF and 2sec delay on remote shutter release.

... Okay, it's beginning to annoy me now. I didn't think the fact that the image was slightly wonky would bother me, but the more time I spend looking at it the greater is the need to resolve it.

*Now amended. :o)

Rock

2010-04-20T22:22:00.005+01:00

Gritty

2010-04-19T23:07:00.014+01:00

Another attempt at producing an HDR image; this time a bit more 'painterly' rendered than the previous Red Chair pic. This was achieved by opting not to manually set the white balance, but use an on-camera preset. This setting gives a more uneven quality and hue of light throughout the capture due to the yellowy fluorescent lighting on the ground floor and the cleaner, bluer daylight lighting and skylights on the first floor. Four exposures @ 1EV apart; white balance set to cloudy; AP mode to retain DoF and 2sec delay on shutter.

I may re-shoot this one Wednesday or Thursday as I am not convinced about the composition.

Three Little Pigs

2010-04-18T22:08:00.002+01:00

Room 8

2010-04-17T23:06:00.010+01:00

This is the room next door to my grandmother's in the residential home. It was empty (presumably the most recent resident has 'checked out') and had been done up to look nice for any prospective clients and nobody was about...