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December 21, 2007December 21, 2007

Shite Customer Service

You know how it is, you fancy a quick sandwich on the way home. So as Subway is near the station I thought a simple pop in and get grub might be in order. But no, on the door there is some bloke with a Subway T-Shirt attempting to sign me for a money off deal.

I mean this is fucking Subway. So for £10 I could have a voucher that entitles me to 3x free subs and plenty of buy one get one free deals. Now I explain I’ve only got £4, but then he can do this for a fiver. So a good deal, but to be honest it wasn’t a good deal as I walked away. In that brief few moments of bullshit he’s lost a customer. Probably for a while to come as well.

So well done (probably the area manager) Subway.

Anyway, partially inspired by my friend Chris (who I will meet for a drink sometime) a picture from today (edit yesterday now!)

Frost

Frosty lamppost, Acocks Green Station, Birmingham

December 2, 2007

Old Images part 2

So, got into a groove now with this scanner.

St Ives at Night, probably my all time favourite image Probably my all time favourite image. Taken with the Lubitel, also took the same image on print film. It did come out rather poorly (possibly due to the print process. I’ll have to dig it out for the scanner).

St Ives at Night

Taken Shortly before the previous one.

November 28, 2007December 2, 2007

Revisiting old images

One of the things on the ‘to do’ list is done. I’ve been wondering about my film scanner for a while. I didn’t want to use it with the old PC as my intention is to sell that. In the end I decided to use a spare small form factor PC (Compaq EVO P4 2.4ghz) with I’ve had lying around for a while.

The unit itself will be just a scanner unit. All the processing will still be completed on the Mac.

So here goes for the first two images on the ‘new’ production line.

Anchor Close, Edinburgh
Cornish Surfers

Quite happy with the newer cleaner images. I’ll need to consider the quality if I submit them to Alamy.

The Anchor Close image may suffer as the original lens was a little soft on the Lubitel Medium Format. Still it took a nice image 🙂

November 25, 2007

Fitness update

Yes, my body has finally started to fight against the fitness regime. For the last week I’ve suffered from a cold. Started with dizziness and fatigue on Mon to Fri. Now the weekend is upon us the runny nose and congestion has started. I can cope with the congestion and runny nose, so hopefully I’ll be back at work on Monday. For me, loss of smell and snot are much easier to cope with than the dizzy head.

Hope it’s sorted soon as I’ve had to miss the gym for the last week.

November 18, 2007

First Snow

first snow, winter 2007 Nothing too exciting, but the first bit of snow for this winter. Nice to see after a bottle of red.