Hipstamatic Tallis

In July, I took many pictures with an iPod Touch using the Hipstamatic app of Thomas Tallis School. As the school is moving, the school homepage has put a load of the images myself and other students took of the school. It was a surprise to see two of my images on the front page! (the fish & long shot to the left of the fish pic) See them for yourself here.

Rapha Super Cross

I went to visit the Rapha Super Cross Series 2011 today in Alexandra Palace, London. This was an amazing event with a challenging, hilly and difficult course & terrain in the Palace's Park. All ages could take part in the event, elite or not elite. The sound of Rouleur cowbells surrounded me for the whole of today!

As well as enjoying the event, I got some amazing shots which I wouldn't usually be able to achieve because of large sized crowds but today was much less busy than I expected - giving me the chance to shine.

Here's a selection of the best from today - I'll upload the majority onto Flickr at some point this week also.

More soon,

asliceofphotos@mail.com

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

1955 - 2011

An inspiring man

Foody Experiment Part 1

Over the last couple of days, I've felt the need to have a go at food photography and reading this blog post on Digital Photography School gave me a few steps in the right direction also. I'll be using those tips more in the next couple of days to try to improve.

Another part to this blog post to come soon!

Victoria Embankment Gardens

While I was taking part in the Mayor of London's Skyride, a brillant event well worth doing,  I took some flowery snaps of the Victoria Embankment Gardens (self explanatory the location hopefully!) and they look really colourful and exciting. Here's a couple and as usual, the rest are on Flickr.

Looking good eh?

Up close bike parts

After some encouragement, I experimented with taking really full the frame shots of my bike. I was really impressed with the picture of the cogs at the back of the bike pictured below.

Here's another couple of my favourites:

Hope you like, more from me soon.

Pixlr Photo editor

I don't think I've mentioned that I've recently been using Pixlr and Pixlr O-Matic to add great effects to my images. Pixlr O-Matic is brillant for beginners like me to add filters and various other effects to images from your computer or a webcam. I don't think the webcam is my cup of tea being honest!

One example where I've used the online software (more available on my Flickr photostream - check the tags) is this bird bath picture in my garden.

I suggest you start to use it if you're a beginner like me!