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Apparently this is what I look like in full-on liveblogging mode...
Whisky is so very down-market these days... ;-)
Yeah, yeah, I know. I was busy this morning...
- Blog or Bog Off - preach it, brother
- We're all technologists now - gadgets are in the mainstream
- Journalism start-ups should think mobile first - there are more mobiles sold per year than there are computers in use. Thank about what that means...
- There's only one secret to building your social media presence (apparently)
- Mashable has dozens for you...
And for the video folks:
- Another review of the Zi8
- A first look at the Sony Bloggie (that name makes me cringe)
And finally, here's Sutton looking all scenic in the snow:
A surprisingly dynamic moment from this morning's Elevenses, our weekly internal knowledge-sharing sessions. We were talking about the best way to get blogs up and running, and what internal resources we can call upon.
Our genial host, looking amused.
This space was reserved for his summing up of the afternoon - but as there wasn't any, I'm off for a drink.
I had an absolute blast at the London Twestival last night. Great event.
You can get a flavour of it from my photos on Flickr.
Alas, the sun has set on my Cornish holiday, and I'm back in London and back at work. I'm busy playing e-mail catch-up, as normal, but should be back to regular posting shortly.
Cover of a Media Standards Trust brochure
As mentioned previously, I was at Tweetcamp last Saturday and, for once, I've actually got all my photos up on Flickr before I've had the chance to write up my thoughts on the event.
Here's a Flickr slideshow of them:
I'm not sure even I remember what I was trying to say with these...
We've just moved from the 8th floor to the 6th floor of Quadrant House, and this is my exciting new desk.
Web 2.0 Expo Berlin attendees might recognise something on it...
Just been to exercise my democratic rights.Â
12 different parties and four independents on the ballot paper, which was the longest I've ever seen. And a pencil to vote with rather than a pen.Â
Hmmm.
Especially when life looks like this...
I knew I liked Waitrose.
(Yes, Farmer's Weekly is one of ours. Although, I have no idea how many farmers shop in the Beckenham store...)
Hand sanitisers have appeared by the lifts at RBI's Procter Street offices:
Ah, the Metro. Bringing us ever more unlikely headlines for the morning commute...
We're spending the day exploring possible places to live....
Here, as close as possible, is the same shot I took on Sunday night, showing the view from where my car is parked. The big melt is starting to make the street passable again, and the actual hill down to the main road (just out of shot) is pretty clear.
Looks like I'll be gracing the office with my presence tomorrow...
Note the fox paw-prints in the top left corner...
Crawling across London at between 10mph and 15mph is less fun than you think. And that small skid in Deptford was quite hair-raising.
London, it's fair to say, is not equipped for snow...
I had to wander down Sutton High Street today, to pay a visit to the bank. The St Nicholas Centre is certainly showing some signs of the times:
My first proper holiday in 14 months...
...and I manage to go away when it's so cold that even waterfalls are starting to freeze up.
I'm loving it.Â
Happy New Year, all, and what better way to celebrate it that to take a look at something that happened 13 years ago?
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Back then, I was working as a staff writer (OK, the staff writer) on a now-deceased title called Hotel & Restaurant. And, because the editor's wife had recently given birth, I got to go on a press trip to Portugal instead of him. The trip was arranged by Fiona Beckett, who was a PR back then, and was to Quinta do Noval, a port quinta high in the Duro Valley run by an Englishman, Christian Seely.Â
I got round to scanning the best of the shots I took there earlier this week, and I couldn't help but think how wonderful that trip would be today. With the ability to blog the trip, from the riverside offices in Porto, to the grape harvesting up in the Duro, it would have made a fascinating three or four days of blogging. Instead, it lead to a single page in the magazine and three dozen slides which have sat unviewed until this week.Â
Enjoy this little glimpse of press trips past:
All of my photos from Le Web 08 are now available in a Flickr set.
Enjoy.
Another quick test of iBlogger, this time with a photo.
...or, y'know, not.
Spotted on a market stall at the top of Leather Lane in London.
I passed this burning London bus on West Smithfield on the way from one meeting to another this afternoon. The Fire Brigade had sealed off most of the surrounding streets and were busy dousing the last vestiges of the fire.
London may annoy me much of the time, but at least it's never dull.
One of the consequences of my Mum's death is that I'm having to sort through all my junk I had stored at her place. In one box, I found 3 old APS films that I shot in the late 90s. I sent them for scanning at Photo Express, and the results dropped on my desk this morning. Amongst the images were a small selection of shots from my first trip to Budapest, in late 1999. I was there to report on the emerging commercial property market for Europroperty.
I returned some years later, and you can see the results elsewhere on this blog, but, while the later pictures are objectively better, I kinda like the colourful simplicity of the earlier ones. It does catch the mood of the city at the time, as you can see in the next shot:
I returned some years later, and you can see the results elsewhere on this blog, but, while the later pictures are objectively better, I kinda like the colourful simplicity of the earlier ones. It does catch the mood of the city at the time, as you can see in the next shot:
Continue reading Budapest in the late 90s.
I've just finished uploading the best of an afternoon's photography in Bungay, Suffolk.
Feel free to browse and enjoy.
I've been storing some stuff in Mum's spare room prior to selling our flat in London. With Mum gone, and her house to be on the market shortly, I've had to resort to that warehouse from Raiders of the Lost Ark for some of my beloved book collection...
Spotted while filling up Mum's car earlier:
A very Suffolk approach to petrol prices:
I clearly don't pay enough attention in the mornings. While walking through the foyer of Quadrant House this morning, I finally paid attention to the display you can see in the middle of the photo below:
Now what's that iChat-like blue bubble all about? Oh, goody:
Nice to see some prominant recognition for the work we're doing. :)
Now what's that iChat-like blue bubble all about? Oh, goody:Nice to see some prominant recognition for the work we're doing. :)
It's only 10 minutes from the apartment to the Norfolk & Norwich
Hospital, but an intervening school and badly-phased set of traffic
lights can extend this rather.
Ah well, just two more runs to do on this chemo cycle.
And yes, the car was well and truly stationary when I took this shot.
And here I start a day's experimentation with blogging from my iPhone.
Breakfast for us here means a quick trip to the deli at 38 St Giles St
in Norwich, a fabulous little place adjacent to Adlard's Restaurant.
They do a mean Americano and their coissants are the best I've tasted
outside those from the boulangerie near my brother's place in France.
Highly recommended.
I'm on the road again, for another week of hospital visits with Mum.
This post is just a test of my ability to moblog from my iPhone via
Flickr...
One of our journalists got to spend time playing with big trucks in the Arctic Circle.
I'm soooooo in the wrong job....
Grabbed on my iPhone on the way to the pub last night.
Way too busy right now. Photos are quicker than text:
I gather some of my more new media readers enjoy these shots of office life, so I be publishing more of them…
I've had only the briefest of access to WiFi today, so here's a quota photo from a walk this afternoon.
Sometimes the most amazing things arrive from one of our overseas offices:
Off in Sunderland for a christening this weekend.
Ah, I love Autumn. I love the harsh, striking light on cold, crisp mornings. It makes you feel so alive.
I've been having a queit day today, recovering from various family-related issues and happily scanning my way through some old negatives. This particular one was taken on St Andrews beach, probably in 1989, just after I left school.
Back to the normal journo blogging business tomorrow.
Back to the normal journo blogging business tomorrow.
I confess - I've been cheating. The entries that went up during the early part of this week were actually written in advance, and set for scheduled publishing. I've actually been on holiday in this very lovely part of the world:
I had a wonderful time on the photography workshop, and have returned to London with my batteries at least somewhat recharged.
Normal service will be resumed tomorrow. (And other pictures from the holiday are on Coffee & Complexity)
I had a wonderful time on the photography workshop, and have returned to London with my batteries at least somewhat recharged.Normal service will be resumed tomorrow. (And other pictures from the holiday are on Coffee & Complexity)
The editor of Travolution regarding me with deep scepticism…
And here's a selection of cheery journo-bloggers at work:
Plotting a revolution (but don't tell anyone)…
My long weekend in Suffolk is all but done. Tomorrow, I return to the fray.
Wish me luck...
A gratuitous pretty photo, testing out the new picture management functionality in MT4.
Cool pic of me by one of my colleagues.
Been at the seaside with my colleagues all today.
Normal blogging service resumed tomorrow.
I'm back from my holiday in Cornwall, where I photographed this chap in the town of Polperro.
I'm off to Dublin on business pretty much straight away, so it may be a couple of days before I pick up posting steam here again.
It's been a hectic weekend - no time for blogging.
However, now John & Anita are safely wed, the Lewisham Bloggers Drinks have been drunk and various friends visited, I'll catch up on blog stuff.
But first: sleep.
And, while I probably won't get a pint of Adnams, you'll find me in the pub on Friday night for the Lewisham Bloggers' Drinks.
Be there, or be elsewhere.
Unlike Blogher Business a couple of weeks ago, this is a largely laptops shut conference. I imagine it's a combination of less experienced attendees and lack of technology support for laptop use during the conference.
Me, on the left, trying to look cool on a stool. Failing.
From a protest I ran into while in New York last week.
Me. 17. Posing. All windswept on a rock.
I liked 1980s music videos. It shows, doesn't it?
I've recently acquired a new scanner, which can handle film and negative scanning. This is a direct scan from some black & white negatives taken while I was at university at the early 90s.
It was shot on Ilford HP5 Film. I haven't been able to identify the band yet.
Expect quite a few images like this over the weekend…
Lewisham Kate mentioned that she had a picture of Dartmouth taken in pretty much the same place as this one I posted.
She clearly found it…
Wishing you all a very merry Christmas.
Amazing what you can find in your mother-in-law's back garden.
Not often that I get the chance to shoot models...
I'm at Salon International, a major exhibition for the hairdressing business, helping launch the Hairdressers Journal Blog, the first major blog launch from RBI since this stuff became my job. Check it out for more pics from the show.
Lee High Road in silence
Originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth.
Lee High Road has been eerily quiet this afternoon. A gas leak has closed the road, and the normal queuing traffic replaced by peace, birdsong and the chatting of pedestrians.
We use our cars far too much.
No blogging today, because I've been too busy gardening.
I gardened until the sun set. Hardcore!
(tragic)
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Been a little while since I did a gratuitous photo project, so here's one from Friday. Thanks to a screw-up on the M25, I spent loads of time queueing on the A25, so I took the opportunity to get a few unusual grabs. As ever, click the images for larger version.
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What a week it's been. I can't go into details just yet, but I'm more excited about what's happening right now than I have been since, well, my wedding I suppose.
Excitement is good. Mystery is good. My workload right now isn't - but that'll calm down, or at least mutate in a pleasing way, soon enough. So, just as last week was a light blogging week, expect intermittent and quota posts in the week to come, too.
However, I couldn't let the weekend finish without posting a couple of pictures from the family weekend in Suffolk. I had two great opportunities for shooting candids; one at a local charity fund-raising do, and one at a food fair. While more of them will appear on Flickr shortly (courtesy of Fraser's newly-released FlickrExport 2, these are fine tasters. The chap below (and the chillis in the earlier post) was snapped at the food fair:
While this shot of my brother Mark calling a raffle was grabbed at the charity event:
Fun!
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Father's Day is very bittersweet for me at the moment. I've not yet had kids of my own, and I lost my Dad to cancer a few years back.
So, in memory of a good man and a great father, here's the very first picture I took of my Dad, back in the late 70s. I still miss you, Dad.
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The light in London has been so lovely in the evenings recently, that it just begs me to get my camera out. Here are a few pictures from the last few days:
Click pics for larger versions
One of the benefits of rebuilding the blog, and temporarily switching to default templates, is that I realise how lazy I've got with my use of photos here on the blog, just posting direct from Flickr. The default posting size from the service is too large for the current template, so I've switched back to using ecto to create more interesting layouts. Expect to see more of this in the days to come.
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A rustic scene spotted on the way into dinner in a local pub.
Here is one of the things that's keeping me sane right now. It's a little dock unit which plugs into my car's cigarette lighter (pretty much unused until now), providing a useful dock and charger for an iPod on the move. The cassette adaptor plugs into the unit, meaning that it's pulling its signal from the digital output on the base of the iPod rather than the headphone socket at the top, leading to better sound.
I'm spending a lot of time on the roads between London, Suffolk and Norfolk right now, and it's lovely to escape the tyranny of the radio programmers.
I also like the unexpected appearance of my hand (complete with wedding ring) in this pic.
This is what Brian would call a quota post.
It's been a long day.
Another one from the archives.
A sign outside my Mum's local pub, the Queen's Head in Bramfield.
On my way to work this morning, I called into the polling station and did my democratic duty.
The final tally of contact by would-be councillers and mayors? One LibDem leaftlet and a few comments on my blog from a Tory.
Good for them. Shame on everybody else.
One of the local independent candidates for the Lewisham mayor took the cheap and cheerful approach to advertising his candidacy. Spotted this morning, on my way to Lewisham Station.
It's been something of a domestic day today, as I prepare a batch of food for Mum to eat in my absence. I've had a lot of succcess with soups, so I had a nice chicken stock simmering away as the sun slowly set down, orange light filtering over the field behind the house.
I never seem to get the time to really cook, and by “really cook” I mean from basic ingredients upwards, so a few hours just pottering around in a good-sized kitchen was bliss.
Slightly more detail than you normally get for a token photo post, I know, but I do like to share…
A pic from the archives that I'm very pleased with.
Another blast from the past, this time from abour four years ago. This is up in Cumbria near Penrith.
This picture is a blast from the past in two ways. First of all, it's four and a half years old, taken with my first digital camera. And secondly, it's of the place where I grew up, the small Scottish town of Dollar.
Why, yes, I am feeling reflective right now.
Random cameraphone picture from yesterday.
My job can be terribly demanding sometimes.
Another one from Tunisia, this one from the beautiful town of Sidi Bou Said.
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Here's a close up of the shoreline detritus from the previous image.
Another one from Tunisia at the end of last year, showing the strange accumulation of seaweed on the shore after a massive storm.
A woman utterly lost in her Robin Hobb book on this monring's commute.
I've taken to walking from Charing Cross or Cannon Street in the mornings, in something of a health kick, which presents me with a variety of photographic opportunities.
I like this because of the stark contrast with yesterday's picture. The interest here is the chap with the wonderful beard and hat, not the landscape. And that's often the way with urban photography - it's the people that make the pictures work.
Bit of a naughty photo this one, grabbed through the windshield of my car as I drove home from Suffolk this morning.
Why? Well, I was just enjoying not commuting the normal London route for once, and enjoying seeing the view from the A12 in daylight. I seem to see it at night most of the time, and it really does pass through an attractive part of the world, despite its flatness. (I'm a hills-and-trees guy at heart)
Anyway, there you have it: today's one-off alternative commute.
I haven't posted any pictures in nearly a week. Bad me.
Here's one from my visit to Tunisia over Christmas.
A fun bit of cameraphone experimentation done this afternoon.
This is an impromptu test of Kablog, a blog client for my mobile phone. I'm sat in the car, waiting for mum to return from her doctor's appointment. The photo opportunities are a touch lacking, so I've turned to writing instead.
Update: Hmmm. Not sure I'm very impressed so far. I had to knock the photo out, because the whole thing looked so horrible.
Off taking Mum to hospital for an appointment and some tests. And bored, while waiting. So, phone pic time. It's a dull, corporate looking hospital from the outside, but inside it's the most impressive hospital I've been in. Friendly, spacious, efficient and, based on Mum's treatment, I'm very impressed.
Heritage buildings and hospitals are not good partners, in my book. New build all the way.
No blogging today - I've been off watching Lorna, my wife, formally receive her Phd. That's not her in the picture - I don't post pics of her without her permission.
More tomorrow.
We have a relative visiting from Bristol, and said relative wanted to go to Bluewater. So, off we went.
I used to like Bluewater. I used to think it was a cut above other British shopping centres (which it still is), but then two things happened. First of all, it became more of a hang-out for chavs (for want of a better phrase), with the cinema in particular suffering badly from this. And second, I visited a real American mall, the Galleria in Fort Lauderdale, and now I know I see Bluewater for the pale imitation it is.
Still, it has an Apple Store, so the day wasn't entirely wasted.
So, fairly hard on the heels of the news that Tony Banks, the former MP not-widely-known-as Lord Stratford, had had a stroke comes the news that he has died.
And that's a shame. Like Robin Cook before him, he was a political animal whose political principles were more important to him that climbing up the Labour Party heirarchy. Like Cook, I didn't agree with all his politics. But I did respect him, and had the chance to meet him, ever-so-briefly, when he spoke at a friend's wedding. I was doing photography for the event, hence the pic above.
In fact, he was the last person I saw from the wedding on the day itself, and my wife and I ran into him and his wife on the Strand, both couple clutching a large Dr Who cookie jar, a gift from the happy couple for services rendered.
Rest in peace. Politics is poorer for your passing.
While we're on the subject of dubious meat products, it seems that a certain burger chain was hit hard by the fire in Hemel Hempstead last week. Isn't it the other lot who claim that their products are flame grilled?
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Renovation works on Lee High Road have revealed a little bit of Lewisham's past.
I saw this on a supporting pillar of a building near the office on the way home last night.
Slight worrying, isn't it?
Lordy, it was wet this morning…
Now, the real strength of mobile phone cameras is this: the unexpected photo opportunity that you come across while going about your daily business. Lewisham town centre had some form of Christmas show going on today, so I grabbed a few shots with my phone while I was doing my shopping. Without the phone, I'd have missed the shot.
A picture to compare and contrast with the last one. It's a similar, but trickier, lighting situation. The difference here is that this photo was shot with my EOS 300D digital SLR. Quite a difference.
The stand along digital camera has a long life ahead of it yet.
Today is a pub lunch sort of day. I enjoyed bangers and mash in front of a roaring fire in a 15th century pub.
The pub actually keeps ducks and chickens, in a very free range manner. We had to chase a particularly stubborn chicken off the road outside the pub before we could sit down to eat.
Still, some exercise in the cold helps build up an appetite.
In the last week, winter seems to have arrived. I'm up in Suffolk at the moment, visiting my mother, and woke to frost, ice and fog.
Ah, the joys of scraping ice off the car's windshield...
Not what it looks like at first glance…
I've been recovering from last night's charity-related debauchery all today, so you'll have to make do with a photo post until tomorrow.
The rain last night was heavier than I thought - the road by the bus stop on Lee High Road was badly flooded, creating great sheet of water any time anyone drove by.
I'm in the process of playing around with the beta of a neat little phone application called ShoZu, which allows you to post pictures straight from your mobile phone to Flickr. So far. I'm impressed.
The picture is of workmen erecting a new fascia on the building that houses Lewisham's new TK Maxx. I think it proves that just adding a plastic facade to an ugly building gives you an ugly building with a plastic facade.
This man looked so quintessentially French that I couldn't resist snapping him.
Lord, I've been slack over the last week, haven't I?
I've been busy at work — the harder things are at the mag, the less mental energy I have for the blog, alas. And having two other blogs to write for doesn't help.
However, I did promise you some observations about France, so here's a really obvious one: smoking is so much more prevalent over there still, particularly amongst the women.
This is, of course, a flimsy excuse to post this picture…
OK, I admit it. I wasn't actually posting at all last week. I was in France and those Madrid shots were all posted well in advance and posted using Movable Type's future posts facility.
So now you get my French photos and observations. Lucky you….
You know the best thing about owning a digital SLR? It allows you to get shots like this. Photography is still an option if your free time is after dark.
Towards the southern end of La Castellana, the architecture of old Madrid begins to make itself known.
Spanish culture focuses on late night activity unheard of in the UK. I found a street market open and trading well after 8pm. But then, dinner rarely starts before 9pm….
Possibly the smallest petrol station I've ever encountered.
I used my precious free time in Madrid to walk down Paseo de la Castellana, the main road that forms a spine down the centre of the city. One of the first things I encountered was Bernabeu Stadium, where Real Madrid play. Normally, I'm neither a fan of football nor of concrete buildings, but this one caught my attention.
Perhaps it was the striking design. Perhaps it was the copious open space around it. Maybe it was just the light - but I did like it.
I couldn't write about my time in Madrid without mentioning the coffee. As one conference attendee put it: "It really leaves your heart thumping, doesn't it?" An Italian journalist I had lunch with dismissed the Spanish coffee as "brown water", but personally, I think she was being disingenuous.
The Spaniards like their coffee strong. They like their coffee breaks. And they like staying up late. I suspect that these facts are connected.
Today was absolutely hectic, so all I can do is leave you with a couple of pictures from this evening's gala dinner…
The other morning, I was forced to catch the DLR to work, rather than my accustomed train. I changed from the Jubilee Line at Heron Quays, and was immediately struck by how much more aesthetically pleasing Canary Wharf has become since the towers proliferated.
Just for a moment, I felt I was looking up at a film backdrop, not a real view at all. And that pleased me.
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Lovely orange/red light on the Thames this evening.
It looks like the backlash against London's favourite (Bristolian) street artist may have begun.
Update: Our anti-Banksy graffiti artist isn't nearly as clever as he thinks. It turns out that this particular piece of work is by Arofish, and not Banksy after all.
The local vicar gives an address at a church fête in a Suffolk village
Spotted in a park in Bristol.
Architectural criticism gets everywhere these days.
Testing using Flickr badges as much as showing off the photos…
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A moment from the wedding I mentioned in the last post.