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I love this flickr group. It doesn’t matter how many times I look at the photos, the forts still seem alien. There’s a good short history of the Maunsell forts at The Utatan.
These were taken on the Great Wall at Mutianyu in September of 2006. I wanted them to look like they’d been taken about 100 years earlier, so I aged them in Photoshop.
I’ve never felt more like honking at sheep
0 Comments Published by richard September 16th, 2007 in Photography
Photo by me, border by onOne PhotoFrame, and texture by Jesh de Rox.
A note to the person who will get into the seat in front of me on the train tomorrow morning and recline so far that I can’t open my laptop, or read the newspaper, or even write little notes in my notebook.
0 Comments Published by richard September 10th, 2007 in WTFYour mother’s a hooker.
The Sea of Wisdom Temple is perched at the summit of the vertigo-inducing Longevity Hill, in the Summer Palace, Beijing. It’s swathed in 1,100 gold and green statuettes of the Infinite Longevity Buddha. I took these shots with my Canon SD200, and enhanced them in Photoshop.
One thing you don’t realize before you have kids is that, as much as you hope that through your knowledge and experience you will be able to teach them a little bit about life, you will end up learning so much more from watching them grow and explore on their own. One thing I’ve learned over the last few weeks is that any song, whether it’s on the radio, on a CD or tape, in a commercial or even just rattling around in your head, can be improved by swapping out one of the words and replacing it with “fart”.
There’s nothing like driving down the highway with a three-year-old belting out “IIIII’m coming up…so you better get the FARTING started!”
We’ve been listening to a classic rock station in the car lately because apparently Aidan is channelling a teenager from the 70s who just wants to take his axe and his amp and get on the road with his band. Mostly for the chicks. For that reason we’ve been treated to Kiss’s “I wanna FART and roll all night”, which is sometimes also improved to “I wanna FART and FART all FART, and FAAA-ART every FART!”
Texture provided by the tabletop at a bar in Austin at last year’s SXSW.
Happy Birthday, Monkey.
This was taken in the Forbidden City in Beijing with my little Canon SD200, and put through the cross-process Photoshop action. I added a texture from a shot I took this weekend.
I’ve been playing with creating a non-destructive action in Photoshop to give photos a cross-processed look and add the kind of vignetting you see in Holga shots. I’d like the vignetting to be a bit more random, but I need to spend more time on that. This photo uses the action as-is with no further adjustments OK, so I’m a liar. I redid this in a higher resolution and realised that I had adjusted the action to make it much less yellow for this shot.
