All photos by me taken at Camp Bestival 2011.

From the top. (I really like that you can see three of the legs in this one)

And the bottom

Chips

Hula hoop

London Eye

The less glamorous Weston Eye.

Me^2

Slide

Swing

Since then I have been playing around, and even started reading up on how to use it. I manage to learn something new each time, and have a long way to go, to help, I’ve started a daily photo blog to practise and learn.

Please go and have a look http://bristoldailyphoto.wordpress.com/

I went to the Eden Project recently. From 2nd November to 12th February they have a late opening, they put up lanterns and special lighting, I took my camera.

I present the greatest achievement of modern man, hanging onto the individual coins, putting them aside and keeping them long enough to collect a whole set.

This took months. Now I’m done I have an extra 88p that I can go wild with. What should I buy?

It was shortly after finding this that I went out and bought a nikon D40…

Disclaimer, none of these are mine (although they are hosted on my website, bandwidth theft is bad, mmmkay), click on the picture to go to the source I got it from.

As far as I know, the method involves either using a dismantled lens, an expensive/special lens, or photoshop/the gimp. The trick seems to be to reduce the depth of field, so the foreground and background are out of focus, as if you were using a macro lens very close to the subject, while actually using a wide lens at a distance (and preferably from a height).
There are hundreds of examples on the internet, I’m off to google some more of them.

In a thinking outside the box moment I decided I would try and avoid the 2-3 hour queue for the Banksy exhibition by turning up 2.5 hours before it opened. It made sense in my head at the time.

There was a load of stuff there none of which was what Banksy is most famous for, graffiti. Which is not surprising really, as walls aren’t that transportable. What is there is definitely Banksy though. Pictures, statues, installations.

This one is a bit creepy, the thing in the bowl is an amimatronic fish finger that swims around like a fish.

This one had to be the most impressive, I’m not sure if the model is Banksy, but it’s stunning in detail, and covered with model soldiers.

Ooh, controversial!

I particularly liked the cartoons, they have an almost xkcd.com feel to them (minus maths jokes of course).
Click any image to see it larger.

(“where did you get that hat”, “the same idiot who drew your shoes”)

There are more photos on my flickr, in this set. The exhibition is running till August 31st. If you are near Bristol you need to go. Go early, queues get up to 5 hours (they’ve closed nearby roads just to accommodate the queue) it gets busy fast, and there’s loads (much more than I’ve got here) to see.

Maths fail.

Terrifying!

Yesterday I got attacked by a Dalek.