Iphone snap taken while, uh, altered, stumbling home from clubbing a few weeks back. Mostly, I just like the colour of the sky – the structure is just there for, er, structure.

Saw this last night, and felt compelled to share it with the world.

I feel less annoyed about this one than I do the other, despite the fact that it’s a worse picture, mostly because this genuinely was a quick snap while I was passing, without really giving it any thought at all. That’s because I took this first, not knowing that 24 hours later, I would be passing a matching piece in Glasgow, and had I not been able to get something I vaguely liked out of the Glasgow one, this would never have seen the light of day.

Annoyingly, a crop of this that includes the hill and necropolis also includes a load of pedestrians and distracting colours, and generally fucks this show. One day I’ll learn not to rush when composing shots, to really take my time and see everything before hitting the button.

I decided to spend some time going back through old photos, looking for things I didn’t post at the time. So here’s a bit of abstract stuff from about 18 months ago that I had completely forgotten about, and rather like. I’m quite happy with the structure to it, that you can clearly track the various movements of the camera as it was shot.

In other news, I bought a photo printer at the weekend, that produces good quality A4 prints. So when I have the spare time, I’m going to be setting up a on-line store to flog framed prints through.

So if there’s a particular shot of mine that you like enough that you’d pay 15-20 quid to have hanging on your wall (I need to do maths yet on the price of paper, inks, frames and shipping to work out how to show a small profit on the things, but I think 15 quid is probably in the right ballpark), do please let me know. I don’t have everything at printable res, but I’ve got got quite a lot.

Here’s an unusual approach for me – while I do apply toning and effects to most of my photos, I don’t generally set out to quite so extreme with them. While this is still composed as it was shot, I have completely savaged the colours on it to destroy detail, and leave something stark and high contrast – aiming to give the suggestion, the feel, of chains rather than an accurate picture of the mooring chains as they are in life. I initially hated this shot, but having now mutilated it, I’m actually quite pleased with it.

I’ve hours and hours working on this short – altering the crop to compose it differently, fucking with the lights and darks, experimenting with B&W and various tints, and I just cannot get it into anything I like. Nonetheless – it was really *remarkably* foggy while I was in Edinburgh the other week, and I wanted to put something online to reflect that. So here it is. It’s not a shot I’m terribly happy with, but it’s one I don’t entirely mind sharing with the world.

I have a few shots of cranes like this – I love old docks, and brownfield space, so wandering around Leith was quite rewarding. I particularly like the decayed logo on the back of this one.

I have observed in the past that I visit places, and take photos of the wrong things. Here’s a photo from the beautiful, Georgian-architecture saturated city of Edinburgh.

This is a photo that works for me on about a few levels, but is almost certain to leave 99% of the population scratching their heads, so I shall simple say that in addition to doing a bit of scrap, these men will also tarmac your drive, and that this photo was taken in Leith. It won’t help anyone that doesn’t get the references, or find the jokes funny, and no I won’t be explaining, but I hope you at least like the colour toning and textures here.

I’m in Edinburgh at the moment, as as per I am taking photos of things that no normal person would. This, for instance, is a photo of a bridge from a shopping centre to a car park. Hardly a great tourist attraction, but it caught my eye. I did go climb the Scott Monument shortly afterward (and let me just say that it’s a good thing that I don’t suffer from vertigo or claustraphobia) but I like this rather more than the convention shots I got from there.