X57-GB: Potato

Or the romanesco brocolli. :-)

Is that not just the most amazing veg you've ever seen? Almost seemed a shame to eat it ( delicious, btw)

I recently acquired an old Holga 120S from a friend. Loaded it up with some Ilford HP5+ 400 speed film, taped up the back with lots of black tape and set out for a walk around Leeds. Another friend kindly offered to develop/scan the photos for me, and emailed me a couple of shots last night as a taster.

I'm rather thrilled with how they've come out.

This is the Town Hall in Leeds

just throw yourself at the ground, and miss.

:-)

                

    see that photo there? The one of the handsome chap?

I took that with a camera made out of a MATCHBOX, at Photocamp Leeds this weekend.

I'm still absolutely giddy about this. A matchbox, some black tape, an acupuncture needle and some film.

Oh, and Mike, who quite deservingly won a prize for best presentation for his 'how to make a pinhole camera out of a matchbox'.

You can see why. Just look at it! A matchbox!

I suspect I may not recover from this. :-)

More photos of the event up on flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dakegra/sets/72157607150087081/

I've just got a pack of Moo.com's new business cards, from my flickr images, and I'm very happy with them. They look ace!

I've used this set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dakegra/sets/72157606033234003/

If anyone would like one, drop me an email! dakegra (at) gmail (dot) com.

Then I saw on Moo's blog that someone had used Wordle to make the images for their cards.

Brilliant idea. I've used Worldle to make this graphic, by copying and pasting in the text of a short story of mine. I think it'd look ace as a business card for writing-related contacts.

Not that I have any. Yet.

:-)

met up with Lloyd (briggate) from the Leeds Flickr Group at lunchtime as he'd offered me his old wireless remote for my D50. Works rather well!

                

    LB and I built a Lego House last night. I was in charge of architecture and brick selection, LB advised on window placement.

Here we see Steve the Builder examining his eco-friendly wind turbine. Note the lack of safety equipment!

more on flickr:
http://flickr.com/photos/dakegra/sets/72157605894238620/

                

    This is Steve The Builder's mini. Steve needs to look after his cars a little better

Steve's retro car collection:



and Steve, surveying his garden: