Balancing the books

Spent yesterday evening learning to do this. The resultant picture is not without its faults, but once I've refined my technique to enable me to balance a pile of books on one finger in the 10 seconds allowed by the camera timer, I should be able to try some shots without the remote control...

Some I took earlier

Much earlier - I found these while looking for a book I couldn't find in the garage. These are from autumn 2003.






I'm sure you get a better polarising effect with film than digital for some reason...

Fossilised

Feet, chutes, and leaves

Wellies

Sliding - I was very disappointed to be told I was too big to have a go...

Being removed from a tulip...

Communing with nature.

Waterfalling

Triffodils

Extrusion

Sandy and the Painted City

Last week I wandered up the Lighthouse to photograph Glasgow poet Sandy Hutchison, who had bravely volunteered himself as a photo-victim. Unfortunately Mr. Scales' Dog is also so old that he cannot exist that far above sea level and had not accompanied us...

Gödel, Escher, Bach - but mostly Escher

Beaching at Waverley

Royal Mile Ministry of Silly Walks

Jan Wagner and Matthew Sweeney

At the Vital Synz event on Thursday evening:

Merchant City Spirals

Threads of Sound 5

The live tracks from Threads of Sound 5 are downloadable now...

R.S. Thomas in 1995

Window

The regeneration of kitchens can be useful...