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New Pictures Added

thelongmile — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:00:01 +0000

4 New Images have been added to the Porfolio and Photo Gallery

Whilst out walking the dog in Victoria Park in Cardiff, early one January morning, the statue which is normally covered in water, was covered in ice. Rushing back home, I grabbed my camera, and started work taking pictures. These were originally intended to go up on the old site when it was live, but unfortunately it would have taken 3 hours to add 4 simple pictures.

Whilst there, I even decided to make my very first attempt at taking a picture of a bird, specifically a rather manky seagul that was picking at the bread that had frozen on the top of the pond, still I think I did reasonably well for a first attempt. What do you think?

Click on the gallery link at the top to view them or click here, and please leave your comments here! I really look forward to reading them!

Prints are available for anyone that wants to order any of these pictures, so please, let me know if your interested by clicking the contact button. Otherwise, enjoy!

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Music Is My Radar…

thelongmile — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:32:42 +0000

Ever noticed how music plays a huge part in your life? How one song changes how you think of things, or brings back a memory of your life good or bad? I certainly do. For me it represents memories, moods, periods in my life I’d rather forget, and others I’m glad to remember. One song always seems to stick with one appropriate moment in my life.

Take getting my Microsoft Certification for example, For me I played a song as soon as I got out of the exam room, knowing I had passed. That song was Curve – Chinese Burn. It’s a strong song, that essentially says screw everything, I’m coming! But then there are other things. Some old songs remind me of old girlfriends, others remind me of old jobs, or moments in jobs. It doesn’t even have to be one I picked out, It could be something I heard on the radio.

Take my first job for instance. They had the radio playing which consistently played R&B. Now personally I don’t like R&B, but hearing it always brings back semi happy memories of my first job, similarly certain songs make me angry, some give more personal feelings, based on when I heard them. None of which are bad things, but it’s quite worrying when a song comes on the radio, and all you can think of is that one date…

What kind of music is part of your life?

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The Winter Wonderland at Cardiff

thelongmile — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:12:00 +0000

Every city and town has their own way of celebrating christmas, and this year is no exception for Cardiff with the return of the Winter Wonderland next to Cardiff’s magnificent City Hall. I’ve always planned on photographing the scenes but have never actually gotten round to it due to personal commitments plus the feeling that my photography was not sufficiently developed enough to take the kind of pictures I would want to display.

This year however should be different. I believe my photography skills have developed sufficiently, and my personal commitments are worked out, meaning that I may finally be able to take the type of pictures I want to for christmas. This is a first for me, being able to take christmas photography, but also gives me some unique opportunities involving long exposures, motion photography and scenes specifically involving people. Whilst this gives me some incredible opportunities to develop new photography skills, It gives me some unique challenges. The biggest question now is weather any of the photos will make it onto the site.