I don't know what it is, but rows of empty tables hold a bizarre fascination for me.
We might all complain about how hot it is in the office, but the plants seem to like it.
I'm quite pleased how this one turned out.
I was originally shooting for the bike, and just as I hit the button, the two people stepped into shot and, I think, made it better.
Yes, it's another camera phone shot.
No, I'm not going to obsess over the fact that the camera phone isn't quite the same quality as I'd usually post.
I'll be very impressed if anyone (other than D) can guess where it was taken.
The Opposites of London Transport
Originally uploaded by pixeldiva.
(two weeks ago, but it's taken this long for the 02 squirrel monkeys to sort out whatever needed to be sorted to let me post photos from the aforementioned phone)
What's the difference, I hear you ask, between the best, and the 2nd best breakfast in the world. Ever.
958 days, 20 hours and 38 minutes.
Same cafe.
Same table.
Same position at said table.
Same menu.
Different choice.
No cocoa or icing sugar though.
The Bridge over the Atlantic, taken from the Isle of Seil, and submitted to Photo Friday: Ocean.
I wish I'd had the courage to go and ask him what the instrument is, but I didn't.
Having decided to seek sanctuary in the relative peacefulness of the British Library yesterday lunchtime, I was somewhat dismayed to find that they'd organised a series of lunchtime concerts, of which I had stumbled upon the first.
So while I didn't get all of the peace and quiet I was looking for, I did get to hear some Kurdish music, see some Kurdish dancing, and snap a few pictures.
Occasionally I take pictures for no other reason than something appeals to me. Later on, I look them again and can't actually explain why I took it or what I like about it, other than "I dunno, I just like it".
This is one of those pictures.
Posted in honour of this discussion currently raging on Uborka.
Bob is a friend of D's parents.
I'd actually almost forgotten about this picture, it was taken on 1 January 2002, and this was one of my earliest attempts at candid portraiture.
The image quality isn't quite what I'd hope for, as the original is quite noisy, due to the low light, but I'm happy enough with it, and if I sit still and listen carefully for long enough, I can still hear the strains of Green Day's Time of your Life, or Mellow Yellow.
Another photo from the many, many photos I took of Lori last month.
I really like this one, partly because it's very different from the previous picture I posted. It's still Lori, but stands out from the others as a different view.
Mike has the distinction of being the first man to buy me a "proper" bourbon, having felt it was his sworn duty when I admitted to the grave error of considering Southern Comfort or Jack Daniels as bourbon.
He also has the distinction of having the best opening line of anyone I've ever met at a blogmeet.
This photo was taken when we met up with Mike and his lovely wife Christine, while they were honeymooning in London last month. This photo was snapped across the table in TGI Fridays, courtesy of the trusty (but tricky - it wouldn't open itself up for me to change film) and ever present Lomo.
Part of me wishes I hadn't caught him mid-word, but part of me likes it for exactly that reason, because it is a truly candid and unposed portrait.
The inimitable Sharon. Best friend, partner-in-gig-going-crime and the original portrait guinea pig.
It might not have been my most successful shoot in terms of signal to noise ratio, but it's probably the one I had most fun with.
The legendary LondonMark, captured with the aid of the Lomo, far outside his natural Camden habitat.
Taken with my trusty new friend, the Lomo LC-A, in Balans Cafe, Soho, where we were celebrating Steph's birthday.
One of what I consider to be my best "true" candid portraits (as opposed to the ones where I ask people to pose or stay still and it's not truly candid).
After using the excuse "no-one will let me take their picture" as my reason for taking self-portraits, I began to realise that I had more portrait pictures than I thought.
So this week will be portrait week, and first up, is D, who complained, that much like the cobbler's children often go shoeless, I never take any pictures of him (and further, that there are no good pictures of him in existence). After an amount of discussion, wherein I posited that part a) was because he didn't let me and part b) was nonsense, we agreed that he would stop pulling faces and putting things between him and my camera lens, and I would do my best to ensure that he couldn't argue part b) any longer.
I think with this one I succeeded.
Another day, another milestone.
This is the 2000th image from the Nikon 5700 camera that I treated myself to at Christmas.
2000 images in 184 days. An average of 10.9 images per day.
For the interested (or really bored) among you, some other statistics.
Number of digital cameras owned: 3
1st: Sony DSC-S70
2nd: Nikon Coolpix 995
3rd: Nikon Coolpix 5700
Days between S70 and 995: 122
Number of images taken with S70: 891
Average images per day: 7.3
Days between 995 and 5700 camera: 906
Number of images taken with 995: 8,715
Average images per day: 9.6
Days since 5700 arrived: 188
Number of images taken so far: 2,077
Average images per day: 11
Total days since S70 arrived: 1,215
Number of images taken so far: 11,683
Average images per day: 9.6
Number of film cameras owned: 3
1st: Nikon f801
2nd: Lomo LC-A
Number of images taken with f801: unknown (didn't have time to count. also, not all rolls of film have been developed yet) - thought to be in the region of 1000.
Number of images taken with Lomo: 222
Total number of images taken since getting S70: (approx) 12,905
Average per day (all formats): 10.6
Number of "good" images taken so far: not nearly as many as I'd like
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