kneeshooter | Entries tagged with futility

The best way to round off a week which was quite tiring was to relax to Oxford with a lot of lights, some jolly good company, approximately twice as many people as cameras - oh, plus a lot of chocolate.

I'll go through some of my photos later, but behind the cut is one I took of Chiara (WINOLJ)'s eye. What's most interesting to me isn't the eye, the make-up or the contact lens - but the reflection of myself in her pupil. Weird.

Anyway - take a look. Much, much more soon but first I'm away from home for another couple of nights thanks to w**k.

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I'm also thinking of buying a laptop. I'm drawn to a MacBook Pro. Any Appleites out there want to talk me into spending more money than just the basic model - or advise me to wait a bit for any reason?

I am only looking at the 15" as the 17" is too big for what I want; or maybe just a MacBook with a bucket of RAM. It is, in practice, likely to remain my second machine as a desktop with 21" and 17" monitors is likely to remain my first choice for photo editing. I was also considering IBM/Lenovo but almost certainly not Sony as I've found their build quality to be rubbish.

Can you use Nokia mobiles as modems on MacOS? I'm assuming yes...

Twas a dark and frosty night, from all over the country the travellers came. Braving the Friday night traffic they converged on a small isolated (it was at least a mile and a half from the supermarket) house. The host was mysteriously absent too, leaving only tea and biscuits in her place.

The seven gathered in the hall. A sense of wrongness was in the air. Then it became clear - there was no television!

After the initial shock it was such a lovely weekend. Warm bodies, lots and lots of cameras, even more photographs taken (we reckon about 3000), much cake eaten, much tea drunk and experimentation in the most fantastic atmosphere.

Personally I only took about 650 shots (which is nothing for me) but did also run a film through (before I broke the camera - shortly after I'd managed to stop myself instinctively looking at the back of the body for a preview after each shot) and get up far too early to take a manual time-lapse over 4 hours.

Expect to be bored stupid by the results, but here's one for now - a self-portrait I can actually bear to look at. No doubt it'll be on the blog soon too. Click for the larger image, as usual.