Lots.

This is going to be a big entry I think. Lots of photos from the last few weeks from lots of different places.

Starting with some photos from bike polo.

Longboarding at Sam’s

Scientology crap in town.

We checked out Gordon’s band at the Captain’s Rest. Current favourite venue in Glasgow..!

Gordon drumming.

Having lunch with Jenn.

Outside the Captain’s Rest a few nights later with Dave.

Second Hand Marching Band playing at the, um, Captain’s Rest…

…and some shots from the party afterwards. Thanks to Chris for having me round!

Steff, and Ben (i think..?) from Over the Wall looking through sketches by Jenny Soep of Over the Wall’s gig earlier that night.

Talking about height in context of bands if I remember.

Next some test/swimwear shots for Zoe’s portfolio…

Pulled the car over on Duke Street to take this one.

My cousin practising guitar.

Some shots of Second Hand Marching Band rehearsing and then playing Stereo that night with Zoey van Goey. There are a bunch more, but I’m just going to put up a few for now.

Jonathan, at the start of a night’s drive to nowhere.

We skimmed stones on the beach at Largs at 9pm.

I went round to Gedi’s. We made nachos and watched ‘Gummo’.

Some nice light in an alleyway.

Now to even more bike polo. With the added bonus of sunlight in this batch.

We drove down to Blackpool on wednesday night to see Linda and stay at her flat for a few nights.

I won 49 tickets in my first try.

Where you redeem tickets for sweets, toys etc.

…

We went on the waltzers. The most violent waltzers I’ve ever been on. This was the guy that spun us.

Wish I’d been closer here.

I finally started to drink tea.

Hanging out the window.

This was extremely funny at 3am.

I styled Jenn’s hair..

I like this despite the fact I missed the focus. Grant and Dawn.

We went to a burlesque night that night, where Karina was performing for the first time.

rar.

-H x

More Bike Polo

Just some more shots from last night’s bike polo.

Bike Polo.

Had the chance to hang out and photograph some bike polo tonight over in a school playground in the west end for a few hours. Think I’m going to keep going back and photographing it every week.

More next week…maybe.

- H

Graveyards, A Wedding and …Flameball.

April has been pretty fun so far. Here’s some photos.

Met up with Chris and wandered about a graveyard and then town for a while, which ended up with Sam buying some goldfish.

Chris had just bought this a few days ago. Nice camera. Nice lens too.

Geeking about.

This guy said something about Bresson to me while I was taking these.

Outside Ladbrokes.

Over at Sam’s place, with our good friend, evening sunlight.

Mpumie turned up to a friend’s wedding reception wearing his uniform, up from his station for a few days.

This was the Scottish half of the wedding; the actual wedding was over in Kenya, so there was of course, a cèilidh.

Deborah and Moses!

Next door to the camera shop.

Sam bought an airhorn.

So we drove to Ayr beach with a bunch of golf balls and clubs, then climbed up the cliff. You can see some more shots <here>

Gedi and Sam teeing up.

This doesn’t really give you an idea of how high up we were. I’m pretty sure you’d die if you fell off.

That was a massive club.

Checking out the view.

Around this time we started setting fire to the golf balls. Check out the video. Oh and turn your speakers on!

Heading back. We managed to hit the sea this time.

Grant playing my guitar.

I’m not actually sure what’s going on here. Charging for a polaroid with Spongebob..?

I  was working, taking some reference shots for an oil painter to paint from. We had rented out a church hall. Using the 85mm more and more recently..

Afterwards, I took a few more shots of Emily and Megan by the canal. Ignore all the different colour balances!

Back in town.

Jenn!

It was Kasia’s 21st party last night, at her flat. Wouldn’t have fancied cleaning up this morning.

Shot at 3200 all night. Daaaaark.

Gedi!

Probably should have taken the UV filter off.

Learning new handshakes.

Duncan.

Pouring salt on red wine to clean it up, apparently.

Makeshift doorstop.

No thanks, I don’t like wine.

Allan who plays guitar for Idlewild and DeSalvo turned up at some point.

On the way home at 5am. Birds keep doing this to my car recently.

That was a big entry.

Cheers.

- H

I am poor.

Because I don’t make a lot of money and I keep buying things. So if you need a Canon Wireless transmitter, you can bid on mine -here-

Right, now that’s out of the way, here’s some images. I bought a Sigma 17-35/f2.8-4 at the start of the month, because I got a good deal on it. I’ve barely used it though, just needed something wider than 35mm to have for jobs etc.  Anyway.

Finally got round to taking a photo of this wall. Still experimenting with digital black and white processing because I don’t have a darkroom anymore [/emo]

Walking around Edinburgh with Louise last month.

At Sam’s house. Jonathan looking concerned.

I took this photo of Jenn on my way to work..

walked about town for a bit with Sam and Jonathan..

…and came back to the recently haircutted Jenn!

Then we went to the two-storey Tesco and bought nonsense.

Kasia in work.

Warning: a few more cat photos coming up.

These were all taken around the time when Jenn and Grant moved into a new flat…

..which has this view of the city from the living room window.

..or this view if you look slightly to the left and through a 17mm lens.

Oh, and it’s right next to the canal.

Sorry for another cat photo.

What promises to be the first of many selfs in that lift.

Bored in my room.

Last self in the Jenn’s old bathroom mirror. That’s not sensor dust.

Jonny had a leaving party/ceilidh as he’s off to South Africa for 3 months to do some volunteer work.

Jenn, after we saw to the buffet.

Ryan called and asked if I wanted to go to a party. I’m glad I have a car so I can wait inside when it’s raining. I broke my iPhone, so had to use my old phone while it was away for repair. Not cool.

We found a pool table there, and I found a winning streak

Reading Jose Cuervos’ magical margherita story..

I can’t remember what was in that bottle. But it smelled pretty bad.

It got late..

Goodnight!

A bonus to working in a camera shop is that you get old cameras people bring in that they want disposed of. I haven’t used it yet because old cameras are rubbish, but it looks badass.

Jonathan and I went down to the Old Firm final at Hampden (the national stadium). But nothing much was happening, which was a bit disappointing.

Another abandoned house. This place was huge and pretty awesome. Jenn was shooting some jewellery here.

Hanna made the jewellery.

Sam was modelling.

But got fed up, haha.

Jonny had another leaving party, this time at his house.

Shopping for gerbil food.

Another party. This time it was Eddie’s engagement party.

We went and bought some clothes and stuff the day before Jonny left for S.Africa. I tried to drink coffee again, but failed.

Busted out the 17mm again. Dynaaaamic.

S’all for now folks.

- H x