All from my garden.

Yes, my bet is that this photographer’s very popular with his neighbours.

Photo Tip: When using one’s home as a location for models, try to vary the look of a repetitively used backdrop, otherwise all your pictures will start to look like each other.

Photography by Curve, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Last night a private view of David Baileys Alive at Night was held with the launch of the Nokia N86 in London. Guests included the photographer and his family, fashion designers Amy Molyneaux and Percy Parker, milliner Stephen Jones, models Florence Brundell-Bruce, Petrina Khashoggi, and Tolula Adeyemi. Continue reading for additional photos.

via David Bailey’s Alive At Night RDuJour.

Official website: https://www.aliveatnight.co.uk/story (launching 29th August 2009)

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I found these on a CD together with a bunch of old CD’s in a cupboard. Shot on film they have been cleaned up a little and were taken on the night of a VH1 awards back in 2001 and the lady is the eternally dapper Kat Kramer, daughter of Stanley Kramer, and the guy is my buddy Martin.

After we dropped Kat off we spent the evening erm, touring LA nightspots and these are some of the only publishable pictures! The other cat (get it?) was photographed in my then apartment and was the owner’s. It was the nicest thing about staying in that particular apartment.

Kat Kramer

Kat + Martin

Taxi on Wilshire

Somewhere near Wilshire?

McDonald’s – who knows where?

House Cat – Familiar

Northam burrows beach. There’s quite a few of these now.

Went to get a couple of new tires today and the owner’s dogs were out keeping an eye on things.

Happy Winter Solstice 2008

At 12:04 UTC tomorrow (21st December) we reach the winter solstice. This is the point in our annual perambulation around the Sun when our local star appears the furthest south in the sky. This will be the day with the shortest amount of daylight for people in the northern hemisphere and the longest for those in the southern hemisphere. It is perhaps quite interesting to note that although the day is the shortest for those of us in the UK, the earliest sunset was back on 13th December and the latest sunrise will be around 29/30th December.

This year, if you have Windows Media Player and assuming it isn’t cloudy, you can watch live streaming of the winter solstice from Newgrange between 08:30 UTC and 09:30 UTC. Newgrange is 5000 year old Neolithic passage tomb that was specifically designed so that at dawn on the days around the winter solstice sunlight would penetrate into the inner chamber. If you want an idea of what to expect, you can watch the video from 2007.

Of course we shouldn’t forget the reason for the season. It is all due to the wonderful 23.5 degree tilt of the Earth’s rotation axis relative to our orbit around the Sun. Life on Earth would be quite different without it.

Happy Solstice everyone.

For a mere £7,000 plus lenses you can set yourself up with this. It’s the Mamiya 645/ Phase One P25