A Couple With Coffees

Posted by Mark on Jan 26, 2012 | 4 Comments

First street shot in a little while thanks to this stupid cold, and Chichester is proving to be a bit of a pain for photographing at the moment on account of the roadworks taking place in the precinct (lifting up flagstones, replacing them, making sure the maintenance budget for the year is fully used so that it can get renewed, I'm not cynical). There was also the problem of dealing with some rather harsh light today and a chilly wind that sapped feeling from the fingers; that last part explained why this couple were walking through with coffees in hands, at least.

For #ThirstyThursday (curated by +Mark Esguerra and +Giuseppe Basile) as well as #CoffeeThursday (curated by +Jason Kowing and +Cheryl Cooper).

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Haute Couture Shoes

Posted by Mark on Jan 25, 2012 | 0 Comments

It’s been interesting looking through some of the shots coming out from the various haute couture shows at Paris Fashion Week recently and I noticed that the shoes in some sets were particularly interesting (my wife has trained me well in this respect). I don’t have any fetish where it comes to shoes and feet (in fact, the opposite of fetish would be closer to the mark) but that doesn’t mean I can’t produce an update for the site and cater for those perverted visitors who do. You’ve got to think of your target demographic.

All images are sourced from fashionising.com; click the images to view large and see other photos from the runway collection.

Stephane Rolland

I’m not keen on the platform but the ankle clasp is nice.

Georgio Armani

Georgio Armani

Lovely textures from the Georgio Armani haute couture set.

Alexandre Vauthier

I’m not a fan of the transparent, plastic sides anyway but this is also a very poorly-fitting shoe.

Iris Van Herpen

Iris Van Herpen

Iris Van Herpen

I think that with Iris Van Herpen’s shoes we’ve finally found the footwear in which I’ll commit crimes and leave baffling prints at the scene.

Soul Train Triple

Posted by Mark on Jan 24, 2012 | 0 Comments

I’m dying from this cold/cough/death-by-phlegm and you don’t even care!

Which leads me nicely onto a selection of music videos from American TV series Soul Train that made me smile despite my situation. And then I coughed and spluttered and felt awful right afterwards. But I’m still going to embed them.

Jungle Boogie

I Love Music

Mighty, Mighty

Soil Sifters

Posted by Mark on Jan 21, 2012 | 4 Comments

Up fairly early for a Saturday morning so that we can head off out to Portchester Castle today for a friend's birthday celebration; expect Roman fortifications to appear in a stream near you in the near future.

This is a shot from yesterday in Chichester, however, where they had their market day (every other Friday). This is a picture of soil sifters which are usually sold by a man who wears a hat with a feather sticking out of it; I've captured him before but not really looked at his wares with much conviction (partly because I've never seen him sell any, perhaps). Hard to believe – because I'm usually more of a shoot-first-think-about-composition-second kind of guy (must work on that this year) – but I did actually pay attention to rule-of-thirds for this shot. As the great philosopher Frank Spencer said: every day and in every way I'm getting better and better.

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Traffic Cone Thursday

Posted by Mark on Jan 19, 2012 | 3 Comments

Okay, I'm willing to bet big money that there isn't a #TrafficConeThursday theme but just on the off-chance that search isn't working correctly here's my submission. I'm not quite sure why these cones were laid out in a curve in the middle of the shopping precinct but I do know that it was difficult to get a good shot of them; this – from a crouching position (because crouching is cool!) – was probably the least uninteresting of the shots today and that's only because it looked like the cone on the left had managed to impale the man looking up the street.

Not a good day for picture-taking but there's always tomorrow.

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Shiny Helmet

Posted by Mark on Jan 19, 2012 | 0 Comments

She feigned happiness but Amelia was secretly disappointed as this was not quite how she'd expected an afternoon admiring Lance's shiny helmet to pan out.

Saxy

Posted by Mark on Jan 18, 2012 | 1 Comment

For #WeLoveMusicWednesday curated by +Folletto Folletto and +Harmony Goodson.

About every couple of weeks in Chichester a group of buskers perform various folk songs and folk covers of non-folk songs (e.g. Led Zeppelin). There is a core of perhaps three musicians who are always there and they appear to frequently drag in some guest performers. Today, during a bit of a drizzly lunchtime, the buskers were back and their guest musician was a saxophonist. A very entertaining way to spend an otherwise miserable lunch.

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Wig Out

Posted by Mark on Jan 18, 2012 | 0 Comments

After decades of slump the discovery of the home planet of the Tribbles finally gave the wig industry a much-needed boost.