Right. So I plan to get up 20 mins earlier and take the slow train to work this week, on the grounds that it’s dead quiet, more comfortable, I get a table, have plenty of time to sit and work on personal projects provided I can stay awake. That’s a damn big caveat, because in the winter it’s hard for me to stay awake, I don’t do it so well. To help with that, I get a bloody huge can of ‘Relentless’ energy filth. I spend the first 10 minutes of the journey documenting my many frustrations with life at present in my notebook, along with a few snippets of hope just for balance and optimism. Then I settle down to work. And straightaway spill the can of Relentless over my keyboard, moments after thinking ‘I’d better not spill the can of Relentless over my keyboard’. I’m typing now, but the sugar/acid goo that’s on there isn’t dry yet. When it does dry, I suspect the keyboard will be wrecked. The papers that I brought to work with are also covered in sticky mess.
This is why I KNOW the world hates me and does not want me to succeed. I understand that corellation is not necessarily causation, but it seems to me to be a damn fine indicator. Update,the.space.key.is.dead.that.bloodywell.doesit,doesitnot?b1234567890-][poiuytrewq/.,mnbvcxz
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Did I mention I love the little Leica? Did anyone recall me saying that? Well I do…
These were taken this afternoon – I took the baby out for a drive while the others went swimming. Left her in the car with Radio Three on and went to take these. It was very bleak today, and wet, and very blue. It’s worth clicking through to these, a 300px thumbnail doesn’t do them justice.
Yeah, I love the little Leica. Yes I do… these were taken on a lunchtime walk last week, around the Charterhouse Street/Smithfield area.
Baby Leica got its first proper outing this morning to the Hillier Arboretum at Romsey. Frost not as severe as I’d hoped – Romsey seems to be less exposed than Winchester, but got some nice stuff all the same. Pretty pleased with the results, quickly edited and processed this evening. Yeah, I’m happy with this thing, think all the agonising over it was worthwhile.
1) Don’t have lots of Red Bull and vodka for lunch.
2) Don’t get caught by the chief executive’s PA photographing the ‘lifeboat for ladybirds’ you’ve lovingly crafted from a pistachio shell, a staple, and the blu-tac that was holding the financial calendar to your desk. That’s not the way to get on in a recession, no.
Archon, sorry, Arch One is just outside Waterloo, and being an Invisibles freak I’ve always found it amusing.
Leica had its first outing today. Top pic is the vie w from Waterloo bridge tonight, quite a bit of fog which is obscuring the top of the Eye. Lower pic is Smithfield Market. A whole chunk of the damn thing is derelict, it’s all black and soot covered, and wigs me out like nothing on earth. I’m loving the camera so far, the lens quality is incredible. Just getting used to the settings, haven’t played at all with RAW yet. Nice that it fits in my pocket and can go everywhere, you also look like a tourist with one of these and don’t attract too much attention from the paranoid paedo-terror spotters.
I’m going to Hell in the express elevator. I’ve taken the credit crunch and made it CRUNCHIER, baby. I have a new Leica D-Lux 4. Haven’t played with it yet, but play with it I shall, and there will be pictures. Yes. And love and joy, and yeah, hell, I have to pay for it some day, but there’s still a market for kidneys isn’t there?
Shiny shiny… jackdaw genes have got me again and there’s a rising lust building in me for a new toy. I had a Fuji F30 that I bought a couple of years ago which was meant to be my ‘always in the pocket’ camera, but I never gelled with it and ended up handing it on ‘permanent loan’ to my partner. It didn’t shoot RAW, and the jpegs it did shoot I found too garish; shutter lag was a bit long and I realised that it was never going to really be what I’d hoped it’d be. But that was two years ago… I’ve missed so many opportunities because I simply can’t carry round my sodding great Nikon everywhere, and if I try and take a film SLR I never get the films developed.
So I’ve been starting to feel the urge to get another digital compact, although the camera on my phone is pretty good, a compact that takes proper pictures and works like a camera. I’d thought about the Nikon P6000, then spent hours reading reviews and realising that it probably wouldn’t do. And then I came across this: Leica D-Lux4. Worse, this shop is less than a mile from my office. Yes, I know it’s a rebadged Panasonic, albeit with a better warranty and apparently better jpeg processing, but it is a thing of beauty, and I am a simple creature, easily beguiled by baubles and trinkets. I wants one. I will either manage to beat myself up enough to resist, or next week, I’ll be marching off down the road with a quivering credit card. Pray for me…
Kemper Norton’s Wintervals EP now available for download. Get it now before he does wierd monkey-dancing in your dreams.
