Dead

The Cambridge University Museum of Zoology is cool.

Runners!

Went to a local 10k race on Sunday, with a borrowed 70-300mm lens. I've been thinking about buying something similar for my wedding work, but this one is about £450 on the web. It seems to be nice and sharp (softness in these images is a combination of bad focussing on my part, and the processing that the images went through. Plus I was shooting in jpeg, which I will never do again, even if time is limited), and the image stabilisation works really well. The copy I had had obviously been dropped or banged at some point, because the USM motor was whirring like a bastard.

Anyway, here are some 'portraits' that I took for fun.

Camping!

We took advantage of the great weather last weekend to take a nice little camping trip to the North Norfolk coast. As mentioned below, I've been shooting a lot more with colour in mind, so the sun really helps.

Long time

pool 1, originally uploaded by monkeyfinger.

Wow, I have totally neglected this blog recently. The intense period of activity involved in moving house, followed by a self-imposed period of little-to-no activity after moving in, alloyed with doing a few weddings in fairly quick succession, means that I haven't taken any 'arty' pictures in a long long while. The picture here isn't even that good, but illustrates nicely that now the summer is here, it's time to break out my colour photography hat. I find that colour photography is much more appealing in the summer - I suppose it's because it's sunny, simple as that. Anyway, more colour stuff on the way.

Poking Around the New House

As you can see, it is still a bit of a building site...

Book

Photo 2 by Rowan Lamb

Landscape

Wow, it's been a while.

A couple of weeks ago I went down to London, and on the way took some snaps out of the train window whilst moving a fair old lick. Some of them turned out not half bad:

Competition Time!

Happy new year, all. This year, I'm going to try and enter more competitions. Ranging from local things to win a tin of beans, all the way up to the Taylor-Wessing Portrait prize (seriously).

Anyway, to kick things off, I've entered another portrait prize in Black and White Photography magazine. The prize is a studio lighting kit, which I would love to have.

Anyway, my four entries are these:

Anomoly

It's been a while since I blogged specifically about Flickr, but I just had a look at my stats and, well, there's something going on. My daily hits average at somewhere around 100 per day. Not very impressive, but it keeps me happy, especially as I've long since given up actively chasing views and comments. The past two days, however, have seen a massive surge in views of my stream, and more odderer than that, my sets. Actual individual views of my photos are still relatively low. Given that flickr only give you the provenence of clicks on actual photographs, I'd be intrigued to see where all this traffic is coming from...

Long time...

...no see.

Haven't blogged anything for some time here. To be honest, I haven't taken many photographs - the winter weather has meant that I go to work in the dark, and it's dark before I leave. Anyway, here's a shot from recently, just to keep things ticking over.