New Toys

New Toys
Originally uploaded by jakem

Well it seems that I've not done any updates for a good long time; not because I've not taken any pictures, but because I've taken too many... I'm a bit intimidated by the backlog, and have been busy on other things.

So, anyway, I seem to be in possession of a rather tasty bit of technology which plays music and movies, has the Internet, does email, takes photos, and also has a phone. Begins with the letter 'i'. It's wonderful.

While the camera is only 2 megapixels, it seems good enough for casual stuff, and the colours are quite punchy in good light. It's also really easy to email the pictures to flickr and consequently to a blog. This blog, for example.

So I'm advancing a couple of resolutions, in preparation for 2008: try taking a picture a day and stick it on flickr; sort through the backlog from the summer and get it online. I'm also trying to figure out some interesting web and technology things with my shiftwork hat on, which may well feed into this side of things too.

So, post over, fresh and toasty from the iPhone.

Henry Moore

Henry Moore sculpture, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Here's some more sculpture that I shot a while ago but failed to put online. It's a very large white figure outside the front of the museum, and in fact looks a bit out of place and slightly too clean. But as ever with Henry Moore, it is full of beautiful shapes, revealing different aspects as you walk around it.

Beach huts in Southwold

Visited Southwold on the Suffolk coast at the weekend. It's a beautiful town with surprising architecture, a pier with plenty of cafes, sandy beaches and lots of beach huts. It felt like summer.

Click here to see a selection of images.

antony gormley - event horizon

Antony Gormley has a fantastic exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London at the moment. As part of the exhibition is a huge outdoors installation covering 1.5 sq kms around the gallery, consisting of figures on the roofs of buildings on both sides of the river.

event horizon gallery

Goult, 1 and 2

In April I visited my parents in France, and was blessed with somewhat changeable weather. However, one afternoon my father and I went on a quick visit to a fairly nearby village called Goult (Google Maps) and the clouds parted just long enough for me to fire off nearly 150 pictures in just over an hour (I'm not usually quite so trigger-happy). The main reason for so many shots was the nature of this village with its combination of ancient doorways, buildings springing out of the rock, an extraordinary cemetery and of course the Provencal colourings. I'll let the pictures take over from here...

gallery 1
gallery 2