Great First Cut

Loved this exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery. All cut from paper, and they let you take pics too. Brill

Seven Skies Over Salford

Saturday, a sunny day

Flickr Collections, for Friday

1. Stephen King movie poster project 2. 1950s advertising 3. Vintage magazine covers 4. Chinese firecracker labels 5. Aberdeen FC stickers 6. Currency of the world  

Manchester Mayfield

Manchester’s ‘Ghost Station’. I’d never heard of it. Pictures courtesy of phill.d’s excellent Flickr set, Wiki stuff here, loads more pics here and here, details of a possible revival as part of the… Read More →

Things I Will Eventually Forget From a Two-Day Work Trip to Dusseldorf

The Hotel Maritim. Only two English-language channels on the TV (what is the attraction of rolling financial news?). Glass lifts, marble floors, ineffective a/c. Blueprints of Messerschmitts. William Shatner & Star Trek convention.… Read More →

Figuring Cinemagram

Loads of filters + moving bits + social. Still trying to figure out Cinemagram. Some ‘best ofs’ here and here.

Recording Dereliction

Disused cinema, from the Reality Trip blog. Loads more shots of abandoned power stations, offices and factories in its best of 2011 post. Love the pics, love how he got them. In the… Read More →

Seven Weeks and Counting

Itching to go holiday, to see blue skies, to take photos, to spend some time with my girls. I don’t think I’ve ever looked forward to a holiday so much.

A Sign for the Times

Leyland Church, Lancashire

Vintage Istanbul

Taken in the gardens of the Blue Mosque, Istanbul, 2007, on a press trip with Samsung. The reason I couldn’t fit the car’s nose and tail into the shot was because I leaning… Read More →