My walk to work

Wandering to work on Friday, I noticed how particularly lovely everything was looking. Perhaps it was because we've had such a dreary phase (in Manchester? never!) but the sun really seemed to make everything sparkle... back to grey now though. (Taken on the Blackberry)

An Emmy the Great Monday Mosaic!

It's Monday and I've made a mosaic! Not quite in keeping with the Monday Mosaic concept but it seemed like a good way to present these pictures of the beautiful Emma-Lee Moss aka Emmy the Great at Leeds Brudenell Social Club a week last Sunday.

Blue

A few years ago I did a proper grown up photography course with a qualification and everything. This set is still one of my proudest achievements - and where I first caught the bug for taking square pictures. These were actually taken on 35mm film with standard aperture dimensions, then cropped and the edges added in Photoshop. I used a blue filter to get the effect. All taken on a wander around Worsley in Salford in about 2006. Click on any of the images to see the full set on Flickr!

Monkeying around with a long lens

My 'adopted' gentle lemurs were in unusually cheeky mood.

Monkey!

It's like he knows we're all laughing at him.

Time to bring this blog out of hibernation. Well, more of a house-moving-induced hiatus. And, having managed to extract my long lens from the piles of boxes and bags, where better to get back into the swing of things (monkey related pun intended) than Chester Zoo? Click on the pics for a few more little gems on Flickr (finally subscribed so I can get more of an album going on there).