Here’s a random pile of stuff taken on said borrowed cameras from last year and this year. I have a bunch more nonsense scattered around hard disks, memory cards, films and whatever else, so those will go up at some point…but it’s been good taking a break from having a camera 24/7, even if I never thought that was possible before. Thanks if this blog still shows in yr RSS’s/you haven’t given up checking it.

I don’t really have the time to write for all the photos, but this is one of the only photo’s taken in Berlin that I actually liked. The rest of this entry is mainly friends and photoshoots…

Thanks for looking….

The walkway between my street and the botanic gardens.

Wounded Knee playing on the Glasgow University campus a couple of months back.

A man in the audience that night.

The cat that comes and goes.

Boots before a clean.

In the living room one night.

The Second Hand Marching Band playing a set through the streets of Govanhill as part of the festival there.

Sean, and Benzo with his bar tab.

George, with a meal, who I’ll be visiting in Berlin next week. (let me know some good places to go if you know any and are reading this)

Playing guitar in the kitchen.

Went over to Rothesay for a wedding. My 35mm is still broken, so when I can’t borrow one I’ve been shooting 50mm and 85mm more. Hmm.

Some crazy tree at the venue.

Benzo again, adjusting.

A cinecamera was floating around.

Benzo again, being animated.

Sitting by the canal.

Some people and a dog came round at the start of summer.

Autoharping in the garden.

First day on the hill at KG park.

Later that night at the 13th note.

DJ’ing at the soundhaus again. square cropping digital=not sure

Went back to Ross’ place for a party after their set.

World cup fever in the garden

Driving back to the west end.

Holy Mountain closed the two day Halt Bar Hi-jack a few weeks ago.

Hanging about outside wondering what to do.

Impromptu portait taking in the garden.

A few of us went down to London for a few days last week and stayed for a few nights.

Krispy Kreme.

Hopefully won’t be as long til the next one..

- H

The cat who occasionally comes in the window every now and then.

Spotting Gedi across the street while walking about the west-end.

Oh, and again. Okay no more cat photos.

The Second Hand Marching Band were playing/filming a video down at the GoMA. It was cold!

I forgot about this one. Maybe I should just put a cat photo between every photo from now on.

Jonathan playing guitar on my bed.

Shopping at Lidl’s.

At a training day at work..

Suzie was helping out at the print auction her class was holding down at the new-ish Transmission/Street Level gallery.

Taking some pictures while some friends had their first resident night at the Soundhaus.

And at their flat afterwards..

More of Jonathan playing guitar.

Just liked the light and colour here.

Down at the Barras one Sunday. Not sure if I like the flare here or not.

Lindsay and her flatmates threw a party one night, busy living room..!

Why? played Stereo last month, which was brilliant. Their drummer Josiah Wolf opened for them.

These are from back in February, when Alistair (sitting on floor) had a birthday party where a few bands played (if you want to watch videos from the night, there’s some of R.M. Hubbert here and Alastair Roberts here)

Smoking in the kitchen.

Different drinks.

Golden Ghost played to finish the evening.

Coming back from the Chinese Supermarket. We are finally getting to see the sun recently.

Walking into town last week.

At a 13-band gig at a rehearsal studio building last weekend. This guy was playing piano out in the hall.

It was almost too dark to photograph anything.

Been trying to re-edit some older photos. Still not looking perfect, but closer than before. Taken while photographing bike polo last summer.

Cornwall last year.

Some photos from New York last year that I missed first time around.

(Dan somewhere in Brooklyn the day I bought the shoes which are now falling apart around my feet)

Thanks for reading if you did.

So, back in October. This canal outside Jenn’s froze solid recently. People cycled and walked up and down it.

Sitting at Jenn’s window.

Making an attempt at doing more street photography.

Liked this one.

New gallery/darkrooms/etc place down in the Trongate.

Argyle Street.

Went to Loch Lomond one day. Just liked the colours here I think.

Keith playing piano in John’s room one saturday.

Before fish and chips in O’Neils an afternoon last october/november.

At the Elliott Smith tribute gig in Mono.

Second Hand Marching Band played a gig at the Art School one night, with some other great bands. Had a ‘surround sound’ set up, which was dead loud.

Drummer from Holy Mountain, who I saw again last night and who were tremendous.

Tiny gig in the penthouse suite of the Brunswick hotel. Thanks to John for loaning the money to get into his own gig. This is Scott frae frightened rabbit.

I went along to Niall’s bands rehearsal one night.

In Universal for Lucy’s birthday/leaving party thing. Been shooting 50mm recently, for a change and because I just destroyed my 35/2.

Kasia and Alison’s Flat in the west end.

Fireworks night from a rooftop down in the new Gorbals.

This guy was in a ‘fighting with cars’ mood, and later tried to fight my car for a good 20 minutes. We got the police on him, haha.

Jenn in a skip.

Mr. Peppermint at Stereo and some ‘experimental’ raw over-editing.

John playing with Monoganon the same night.

We had money and went to eat at Wagamama’s for the first time in a while.

Then I went to see Second Hand Marching Band at the Flying Duck, with only the 85/1.8 with me in a tiny venue…

A shot from some of the work I’ve been doing recently.

Jenn’s gerbils. Note rubbish colour/contrast/detail from non-L lens. Boo.

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Jenn gave me an autoharp for my birthday which was brilliant.

The same walk back from work at night. And yes, it is boring.

Bart during our work night out at an Indian place.

A shot with the Ricoh GR100 of all things.

Somewhere in England at 4.30am.

Somewhere in England around afternoon time.

An Uncle on Christmas Day.

Took some photographs of Kasia in the Chinese Gardens.

Benni Hemm HEmm in the 13th Note last week.

A shot from a shoot up in Strathaven. Taken with jonathan’s 28-70L. Detail! Contrast!

Jonathan in my new room, a few nights ago.

- H

This is actually Glasgow, but I’ll be doing this chronologically!

This is Blackpool. Jonathan and I decided to drive down on a saturday night last month and surprise linda.

Security.

Full view needed.

In Linda’s flat.

Now follow some photos taken in Blackpool, at night.

Walking down to the centre.

Some non-blackpool stuff over the next few days.

- H

For a jewellery company I worked with.

Walking around last month.

Just for fun. As predicted, this got more views than normal on flickr. Haha…

The morning we went for a walk around the park next to me.

In Glasgow.

Then we went on a spur-of-the-moment trip to Blackpool to say goodbye to Linda, who was leaving Glasgow at the end of summer. I asked this guy if I could photograph him with his dogs, but he seemed pretty suspicious/thought I was a weirdo.

I really badly underexposed this. And the editing is pretty horrible but I don’t think it’s worth fixing.

A test shoot with Rebecca.

We took a bus to Inverness so Jenn could buy a car. I was too lazy/stupid to take off the filter here I think. But the dog has some nice flare going on.

More soon, probably.

Lucy and Kasia. This was before we left for the US.

Near the end of the night for me.

Jenn, Jonathan and Sophie, In Jenn’s flat. Trying to figure out how to work the TV.

In town, on Union Street.

Shooting 50mm for a change, after some inspiration. A cigarette and a busker shouting at someone.

Waiting at the bus stop.

Waiting for me to cross I think. Some nice light for a change.

Jenn, with a packet of Nicky. After realising we were travelling up to Dundee to go to a Nicky’s flatwarming party.

I like the texture on the ground.

My one black and white of this entry. A first I think. Jonathan wearing my sunglasses i got for $10.

Walking back to Jenn’s.

Meh.

The hallway in Jenn’s block.

The light in Jenn’s flat.

At an awful club in Dundee. Good night though.

In St. Andrews.

In a brewery for Sam’s birthday.

Bit noisy, sorry.

Jonathan.

Jenn, laughing.

Waiting to go see..

…Jeffrey Lewis.

We took a taxi back after some free chicken.

I think this is the nearerst the white balance can get. I think it was from a shop light?

- H.

The first morning after travelling down the night before.

Waking up at 9am. I woke up after a terrible sleep, where my tent flooded and I had no real blanket, and could see my breath.

Discovering our surroundings in daylight.

Struggling to put up our biggest tent.

Rich cooking a proper breakfast. I had tesco value fake sausage and tesco value fake cheese on tesco value bread.

Sophie’s flute drifted through the air..

Rich’s hat drifted around..

Listening to Alistair’s self made guitar.

(for the Lying Down Craze Website I think.)

Handing out lyrics to the next song.

Emphatic fans.

Coming off stage.

Ryan and Louise arrived and we were happy.

Collette at the edge of our campsite in the afternoon.

Stoo was wearing a football shirt and looking cool.

Dave swigging, grittily.

Steff and Stoo.

Sophie pretending to be disgruntled.

Couldn’t focus properly in the sun. I’m not used to sun.

(Jamie:leave a comment and yr emailaddress and I’ll email you that photo.)

Trying the 85mm in the nice light.

Inflatable Sofa, sat on by Sophie.

The light was still so good, so late in the day.

Maxi, sat around the circle.

Dave..

lighting a..

..cigarette.

Ryan, of The 17th Century.

The 17th Century.

Liam, standing in front of a truck.

Dave, standing in front of a truck.

Wanted to relax, so kept the 85mm on.

A man I met.

A girl watching one of the last few bands on the second night.

The next day, performing for a website. They were meant to play in a tent, but that proved undoable.

Some chose to drink the next afternoon. Sleeping arrangements had improved slightly by now with a new tent.

Conversing.

Watching a band.

I don’t think this was intended as a visual pun at this time. Which makes me like it more, I think.

It was beginning to get pretty normal by now.

Rowan in the evening sun.

Rich briefly appeared and joined us again for a minute.

The light at our campsite was basically gone. 1/10, F2, 3200ISO I think.

It was a little better near the stages. Next to the men’s urinals here.

Next morning we packed up and went home on a wet, grey day.

Here’s a silly stitched panorama of where we slept, ate and talked.

- Hx

I also finally figured out a colour balance i like.

Atop the Empire State. 9am.

This looks really american to Scottish people.

(Take a while to look at this one)

We were down at the Pier watching a free Slow Club/Casiokids show. You can watch a video from that night (which feautures Jenn and I quite heavily in the crowd) here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJmXbXHc66k

Nothing here but new york light is incredible.

Now on to Texas.

Stupid filter..

I got a grip, and wanted to see just how big it made the camera look. And i stuck ont he flash for extra measure. The shutter release on the grip is *really* light…?

This isn’t photoshopped as much as it looks like it is. Houston Fine Arts Museum. It was great.

Nice light, nice ducks.

Alex caught a fish, then we let it go. I’d never been fishing before.

Found a nice cafe with a nice mirror.

We drove an hour to Kemah and ate ice-cream and bought presents.

Lunch in a Diner. It was great.

More to come.

- H.