January 2012
21 posts
Tired
I’m tired. I woke up at about half past six or seven this morning. My alarm was for half past seven but I was awake for a while before tossing and turning. So I got up, noticed that it was still quite dark outside but felt a bit better watching the sunrise from the bathroom window. It’s a great window, some day I’ll show you the view.
Yesterday I picked a package up from the...
Goodbye Weekend
I’ve saved my three favourite photos from the roll for today. I don’t know what it is about them, perhaps the slight haziness and slight over-exposure of them but I just love them. I think they are perfect. Here’s a little about them:
The first and second I took in Portsmouth, the nets are from the Viviers fish market and the top photo is one of their fishing boats.
The...
Thursday
Today has been a lazy day. I didn’t wake up particularly late but I haven’t really done much. I finally finished my little Origami instructions that I’ve been working on for a few days now. You can see it here. I really hope people like this.
So apart from finishing that off I also did some shopping. I managed to buy a lot things, half of them food. So I bought two records,...
Verticals
I’m a bit more relaxed tonight. My exams are out of the way and all that’s left is to enjoy these last few days of no University until term starts next Tuesday and to get cracking on with my dissertation.
About today’s post. I’ve noticed that I’m back to shooting verticals and all thanks to Alessandro whom I think might take more verticals than...
Dai
I’m a little homesick today so I’m showing you the last photos I’ve got of Gibraltar from my Canon. Apart from being homesick today has been pretty rubbish. I’ve got an exam tomorrow so I have to prepare this text and I’ve read it a couple of times and it’s pretty boring. It’s a really boring Italian text from the mid 90’s. I’m reading this...
Procrastination
Well, procrastination with regards to the work I have to do for University because I’ve been working on a little feature for the Zine all afternoon. I’ll show you once I’ve got it done, hopefully it makes it to the final product.
So I’ve noticed that I was so tired last night that I really didn’t mention much about what we did yesterday. As I said, we went to...
Sunday 22
I’ve just got back from Winchester. What a nightmare it was to get there and back, trains weren’t running so we had to get some buses and a train there and back.
Anyway. It was a good day, just a shame that Alessandro’s in Germany so we couldn’t meet up. Quite funny that coincidentally I saw James just as we got to the city. I also developed the first film from my Zenit...
Jesus & The Fish
No, I wasn’t going to talk about any miracles. Here’s a short post because we’re hosting a dinner party. So tomorrow I’m going back to Winchester, shame that Alessandro is in Berlin but the housemates want to visit so why not. Today I finished my first (test) roll of my Zenit so hopefully I can get that developed tomorrow.
Above is what I’ve been working on....
Portsmouth Harbour
No, this is not Portsmouth Harbour. This is in Gibraltar but I chose this photo because I went to the seaside today.
Today I had an exam at two. It was a translation exam, English to Spanish, pretty easy; no big deal. So anyway. Today I woke up at about 10 and made my way to the centre but because we didn’t end up going for lunch and I didn’t find out until about half 11 I bought a...
Ginger Tea
I’m not a stalker or anything but I really like to watch people. I know it sounds contradictory. I really like to watch people do their own thing, it’s interesting. Don’t you think? It’s also good that photos of people are better when the people don’t know they are being taken, they are more natural that way. So I took this through a gap in an ornate wrought iron...
Tuesday 17
I’ve had a rough couple of days. I’ve got a lot of work to do and quite frankly I can’t get down to it. After last Thursday’s great work session things have gone downhill. It’s Tuesday and yesterday because I didn’t manage to get much done I decided I was really going to work today. That was before I fell down the stairs and hurt myself real bad. So that was...
Ups & Downs
Life’s all about ups and downs. Today’s a perfect example. Last night was an ‘up’ moment. We watched the first two Die Hard movies and had pizza. Action movies are not usually my favourite but I really liked Die Hard. Maybe it’s the ‘cheesyness’ of it. Then this morning was a bit of a ‘down’ moment: we had lunch and my laptop was acting...
More Cameras
Little did I know this morning when I woke up that I would come back home with two new cameras. Well, not new, second hand but you get the drift.
So today I woke up early to go and hand in some work and then we had a pretty leisurely day. Coffee at Costa & Starbucks, lunch at The Registry…A great day. But only made better on the way home. So we walked instead of taking the bus and...
Friends
I’m ill. This post was actually gonna be titled “ill” but nobody would want to read that right? Instead people would want to read about my beautiful friends instead.
Today hasn’t been a very good day. I’m ill again, I didn’t sleep well and I’ve been doing work all day. On the plus side I wrote a whole 3000 word essay today on the Italian north and...
Packing
I’m packing all my stuff and just as I’ve started to do so my laptop’s given me a scare with a Blue Screen and a sudden restart. I am now really scared even after backing up all my work and all my photos. Imagine what a disaster it would be to lose EVERYTHING on my final year and after doing so much photography in the past year…Anyway. I need to think positively, at the...
Show's Over
Today’s post is all about food. These photos are from a few weeks ago, it was a few days before Chris & Mike’s birthday party and we went to their house to watch some movies. Chris made some ribs and nachos and I snapped some interesting photos.
Last night we went to the Chinese restaurant. The deal in that restaurant is that you pay €20 and you can order as much food and...
One More
One more camera for the collection. This time a Zenit 12XP. I already have a Zenit ET but it’s broken. It’s quite fortunate that they both use the same lens because the one on this 12XP didn’t seem to be working too good on the aperture.
These photos were taken in El Pinar del Rey in nearby Spain. I used to go there ever Sunday as a child and I have very fond memories of...
Levante
It’s been a very boring Saturday. I woke up early after a late night, the weather is really bad (we have the whole Levante thing going on again) and Gibraltar is so boring that everything is shut. We went for a coffee and as we were drinking it they were kind of closing the café up so we had to rush out and go home. I was out for about an hour but because everywhere else is closed we had...
Pesce
I don’t have much time to write, I’m in a rush but all I want to say is that I am very very happy for the result of the Creative Gibraltar meeting earlier on today. Things are planned and the ball is rolling. I will tell you more about it tomorrow.
Have a good night.
What are you doing?
In Gibraltar we’re British but because we’re basically stuck to Spain we still kind of celebrate the Spanish Christmas tradition of the arrival of the three kings. The arrival is on the 6th of January and the night before there’s always a cavalcade in all Spanish cities. In Gibraltar we also have our own cavalcade and although it’s not very big it’s always a lot...
