"But these are days we dream about when the sunlight paints us gold" - Bright Eyes



Saturday 26 November 2011

Marion Rock Mac

IMG_3794 IMG_3820 IMG_3843 IMG_3851 IMG_3867 IMG_3899 Another Marion post, but then I will definately give it a break for a while. I was fortunate to get along to the very limited capacity warm up gig in Macclesfield on Thursday. The whole evening was a bit of a surreal experience, but most definately in a good way. It was fab to catch up with people I haven't seen since 2006, and also of course to see practically the original line-up in such intimate surroundings. Incredibly frustrated that I will miss the 'main event' at Club Academy on 17th December, but after Thursday's performance I am fairly sure this is just the beginning...

More pics here!

Sunday 20 November 2011

Marion memories...

before jaime2 phil and jaime jack grin disco ball

Not many bands would inspire me to make a 200 mile drive to deepest darkest Somerset (well, Bath to be exact) to see them. But Marion are not just any band. So as Marion v. 3 prepare to venture out into the live arena, here's a pictorial recount of Marion v. 2's inaugral gig at Bath's Green Park Tavern, on 1st April 2006.

I ambitiously attempted to photograph without flash using a grainy 800 iso film, but soon gave that up as I was tossed around on the collective wave of adrenalin. Managed to salvage a few flash-assisted shots though, the rest of which are here!

Monday 14 November 2011

Monday Mosaic ~ New pad

mosaic70d38115fcc624a46d7be64bdc836e3d38f91147 After my initial flurry of activity on here, I went a bit quiet... mainly because I was moving into my fab new pad! It's not quite the finished article yet, but I'm settling in nicely, so I found a few moments in between building Ikea furniture to have a little wander with my camera... And here's the results as a Monday Mosaic. Click on the mosaic to go to my flickr album and see the pics in all their rectangular glory x

Sunday 13 November 2011

Poppy Day

69420004 I did post this photograph as part of The August Break, but it seemed appropriate to post again today, on Remembrance Sunday.

I found this on the fantastic Woodlands Junior website:

The First Two Minute Silence in London (11th November 1919) as reported in the Manchester Guardian, 12th November 1919.

'The first stroke of eleven produced a magical effect.

The tram cars glided into stillness, motors ceased to cough and fume, and stopped dead, and the mighty-limbed dray horses hunched back upon their loads and stopped also, seeming to do it of their own volition.

Someone took off his hat, and with a nervous hesitancy the rest of the men bowed their heads also. Here and there an old soldier could be detected slipping unconsciously into the posture of 'attention'. An elderly woman, not far away, wiped her eyes, and the man beside her looked white and stern. Everyone stood very still ... The hush deepened. It had spread over the whole city and become so pronounced as to impress one with a sense of audibility. It was a silence which was almost pain ... And the spirit of memory brooded over it all.'

Monday 7 November 2011

"We love the winter, it brings us closer together"

DSCF2552 Something fishy

DSCF2595 Self portrait

DSCF2646 Teeth!

IMG_2685 Strokkur in the sunshine

IMG_2768 Under the glacier

Now that the weather here is getting a bit chillier, and we're getting out the winter woolies and hot water bottles, it's inspired me to look back at my pictures from a trip to Iceland last February. Unfortunately I didn't manage to capture the awesome Northern Lights show we witnessed, but here's some of my others - a few more selected highlights on my flickr.