Adventures.

I think this will be another large entry. Can’t be bothered writing much.

Gordon, in a studio in college.

A few frames taken a few months back with the Leica/tri-x. Jenn in subway.

Sam, the day the lens for his Bessa arrived. In the 13th Note for lunch.

The day Jenn got gerbils.

Now back to the 5D, and some colour. And some random car parts at the top of my street.

Goofing about in college one day.

Me, taken by sam.

I’m not sure why this has a border.

Yep.

Shall I talk about the joys of sensor dust and images like this? No? Okay.

This is too dark, but I do not care enough. It was Robbie’s birthday, so we went to play minigolf and bowling, and then we ate ribs. Awesome.

Grant.

Birthday boy.

Back at their flat.

Does not like picture being taken.

Jenn and I went up to Inverness last week for a friend’s houseparty. This is us driving over the Kessock bridge late at night.

Missy the cat.

Jenn’s garden which looks onto a field, in the middle of nowhere, it’s awesome.

At the party. Some very nice people from Dundee who I didn’t know. It was a fancy dress party, obviously.

It was very dark in that room. The decorations were great.

…drinking.

Cutting the cake.

In the morning.

Packing up the car.

We visited the ‘Black Isle Wildlife Park’ in Inverness one day. There were loads of peacocks wandering around.

They had a few zebras..

..lots of goats…

..a few wallabies and wallababies…

..my legs..

…some deer..

..a pig or three..

..and some signs.

Also some paths.

These are the last two photos of animals in this entry. I promise.

Another night, another houseparty. This time at Stewart’s.

Suzie.

For the last 3 days, the weather has been like this, it’s nice for a change.

In Biere Halle. Stewart gave me some really old Ektachrome 64 slide film, which I might shoot soon. Was shooting apx100 in the nice weather.

Sam, wearing my new cheap H&M glasses.

We hung out in the Botanic Gardens a few nights back. SENSOR DUST GAH

Linda came to join us.

Sam and Haitham. Sam is on Linda’s bike.

Texting.

Haitham. I’ve been enjoying 50mm recently.

During a frisbee game in the back court.

Linda.

Wandering about the house yesterday. Dad’s Strat.

I met Jonathan in town, so we could go somewhere on a train. We saw this on our way to get sandwiches.

So we ended up getting on a train to Gourock which cost £8.25.

(look for the lolz in this one)

So that was Gourock.

Now back to Glasgow, and an old man who was walking around cleaning bins.

And to Sam, who managed to buy himself his own damn sunglasses.

Then, last night we had the year’s first barbeque!

Yep.

I have ran out of things to say, what a long entry.

Jenn and some bottles.

Taken with Jonathan’s EF 28/1.8 lens. It’s awesome.

Thanks for reading if you got this far. Hopefully next entry won’t be as epic.

- H x

Just a whole heap of stuff.

I think this is going to be quite a long entry, so I’ll keep the descriptions brief. Just some photos from the last few weeks of hanging out with friends.

Ooh, starting with a self. In the 13th Note bathrooms.

Sam in tesco.

Camera geeking and last night’s polaroid up in St. Andrews.

Killing some time.

Linda in St. Andrews

Jenn in my garden.

Seeing Adam Green. Lots of stupid Juno fans there. Over 14’s shows are awful sometimes.

Grant.

Jonathan, helping me explore that abandoned area from two entries ago.

Hmm.

Jonthan, waiting for the subway into the west end.

Sam in the park.

..and again.

Benching. I finally came up with a nice colour balance setting in photoshop, so should be shooting colour a bit more i think.

Slushhh.

More slush. Yeah.

A hand.

Glasgow.

New genre: streetphotosoffriendasyouwalkuptothem

More colour.

I went to Nando’s for the first time with Louise.

Then after a few friends exhibitions, we went to Steak And Cherry, a café open until 5am.

Jenn in the morning.

And down in the subway.

We were celbrating my dad’s birthday over the weekend, were were staying in a B&B in Auchterarder.

Before going out to the best meal we’ve ever had..!

And the next morning for breakfast.

Dad in St. Andrews with coffee.

Me in St. Andrews with camera.

Textures.

At the beach in Kingsbarns.

Linda and a large camera.

Karina, modelling for Jenn.

At sam’s before playing football.

Jonathan and I went out shooting today..

We met Euan working in Jessops.

…and martin outside the darkroom at college.

‘Voluntary Worker’ my ass.

It was warm, so we had ice cream. Jonathan had sorbet.

In the lifts at college. 1/15th at 1600. Dark.

Jenn and I went for dinner.

I developed three rolls yesterday, so the next entry might feature some film for a change.

Thanks for reading,

- H

x

Old Firm

Wednesday saw an old firm match take place at Celtic Stadium in Parkhead. Read the link to see what it’s all about. I went down to the area before the match started. All photos shot in camera b/w with only basic levels in photoshop.

It was pretty mental around the stadium, a massive police prescence and thousands of people.

I have to dash to work now, comments appreciated!

- H

Abandoned Glasgow

First of all, thanks for all the comments on the last post, they’re all very much appreciated. For this post, it’s back to black and white - but with different subject matter to usual.

I drive past abandoned tenements almost every day, but this morning on my way to work at 8am, I drove a lot closer than before, and took a few pictures; deciding I’d come back after my shift finished. The area is pretty dodgy, and the buildings are all boarded up and in a total mess. Here are the pictures I took.

Then I drove 5 minutes to another abandoned housing estate.

And then I drove another 5 minutes back to my own area.

Just before heading home, I saw this. An homage to Erwitt…

I spent about 3 hours shooting these; it was freezing, being inside/around the desolate, old buildings was pretty intimidating, I stood on a nail, there were random banging noises eminating from somewhere…but I’m happy with the photos. I want to do this more often, I felt as though I was stuck in a photographic rut - taking photos of objects instead of people was pretty tricky for me, but it made me think more while shooting I think.

Comments appreciated as always,

cheers,

- H x

One sunny afternoon

On monday, it felt, and looked like summer was about to descend on Glasgow. It hasn’t. We got one afternoon.

Here’s a few photos from walking around some  parts of the city I haven’t been with a camera before,all shot 35mm at 50ISO in colour.

- H