Took this shot at Derwent Reservoir in the Peak District of The Dambusters 70th Anniversary Flyby over the Dam.
The photograph made Fluidr’s top 50 images on Flickr today…coming in at No:48 
I’ve always wanted to photograph an European Red Robin up close, but they are a very timid bird to capture, but lady luck shone on me yesterday when Mr & Mrs Robin decided to feather their spring nest right outside my office window in a cap between the security shutters. Not one to miss a perfect photo opportunity I set the camera on a tripod with a cable release attached on my desk, set the display on the camera to preview and merrily got on with my daily work, occasionally looking at the display to see what was happening and clicking away at the cable release as they busily flocked back and forth with leaves and twigs to build their home for the coming arrivals…
I’ve got to say it was the most welcome distraction I’ve had at work, and one which I’ll be watching closely over the coming weeks.
For the an Über Star Wars fan like me, this new periodic table of Star Wars characters which DesignoMatt.com have created tickles my inner geek on so many levels. The best thing of all is that they’ve only characters from the original trilogy episodes: IV, V, and VI for their Elements Table, much in the same way as they did the Elements of Attractions at the Magic Kingdom.
The Elements of Star Wars is available as a poster over at Etckt or as T-Shirts and various other formats at Society9
Such a beautiful poster from the guys over at Pop Chart Lab, a meticulously illustrated catalogue of 100 landmark cameras, put together from over a century of our photographic history, depicting both professional and amateur models, I’ve still got a 1952 Leica M3, and a 1982 Ricoh KR10 Super which looks the strikingly similar to the illustrated 1982 Nikon FM2.
This is a must have print for us photography geeks…which ones have you still got?
The Sunday Times describe British Sea Power as “The best band in Britain.” and with me such a massive fan, I couldn’t agree with that more, but seeing them again at Leeds last week was far more greater than that statement for me, and more than I could possible imagine on a personal level… Why you may ask?.. well, I’d approached the British Sea Power management via a few emails to see if could get an ‘Official’ Photographers pass for the gig, I’d also sent them links to my work, and this blog and then I waited with baited breath…then the email finally came ‘All sorted Carl, your ‘Access All Areas’ will be on the door’ …My first thought was HOLY SHIT!! I’m an Official Photographer for British Sea Power!!…better not let them down now.
So with all my gear checked, cleaned and charged, this is my Photo Documentary of the British Sea Power Leeds Gig 2013…I dont think I let them down…Taken with Love & Professionalism…what do you think?
I thought why submit a few ‘Colour’ Themed images for this weeks WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge, but instead over 1000, so I downloaded my full Instagram library of 1020 images (to be exact) to create a colourful Rainbow Mosaic using them all.
…I hope you like it.
Click to enlarge, as the image is nearly 5000 Pixels high and contains 1500 squares (some images used twice)
With NASA’s space fleet of Earth-observing satellites constantly circle our globe, they’ve put together a rather gorgeous video documenting what our planet looked like throughout 2012, this includes some stunning true colour satellite imagery, Earth science data visualizations, time lapses from the International Space Station, and computer models, plus loads more from their bevy of different tech and instruments NASA has at its disposal in our orbit.
The video is part Earth Month 2013, which coincides with Earth Day on April 22nd of this year, you can always mosey on over to NASA’s Earth Month website for lots more video’s and information, sadly the video isn’t narrated, this would have been such a gem for the late great Carl Sagan to voice over…but still, it has some quite hypnotic beats.
I’ve featured Ken Taylor previously on my blog when he did a great Halloween poster, but his latest collection of movie related posters that’s just been launched on Mondo.com is truly amazeballs. The way in which he captures the evil in Hannibal Lectors eyes sends a shiver down my spine, I think also the vengeful determination he shows in Rambo’s stare is equally as good…man I love this guy’s work…can you tell
…check out the rest
Some cool close up detail shots as well by photographer Billy Garrett.
Ken’s Bio from his Website
‘Melbourne based Illustrator & Designer Ken Taylor works primarily within the music industry and is predominantly well-known for his striking rock posters. Ken started in Perth Western Australia doing posters and album artwork for local bands. In 2001 He moved to Melbourne and slowly started to create a name for himself within Melbourne’s music scene. In 2006 he went out on his own and started to work full-time on music based artwork.
Ken has designed posters and album artwork for many Australian bands including You Am I & The Beasts of Bourbon & Crowded House. Internationally he has designed artwork for bands such Queens of the Stone Age, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Kings of Leon, Bob Dylan & The Rolling Stones. Ken has won the Desktop Create Award for Best illustration in both 2007 & 2009 and was a Guest Speaker at the 2009 AGIDEAS design conference and the 2011 Semi – Permanent Creative Conference in both Melbourne and Perth. Ken continues to work with bands both locally and internationally and is represented by Drawing Book’
Now you’d think from these images that we’ve had an Ice Storm like the incredible spectacle that took place in Versoix, Switzerland in 2005 by the spray coming off Léman Lake, but alas it’s a little bit simpler than that. This is in fact rural Pudsey near Fulneck School in the middle of farmer’s field down Scholebrook Lane.
The ice is in fact caused by a hose next to a horse’s trough that has a leak, and is forcing out a fine spray of water high into the air and over the tree which is then freezing.
You can almost visualise the movie in the style of Grease or even Back to the Future with Robert Zemeckis behind the lens instructing a young Luke Skywalker played by Michael J. Fox to ‘Use the Force Luke’.
This Medry guy has some serious talent, which I’d pay good money to buy his Graphic Novel of The Star Wars 80’s High School or The Rockabilly Batman Universe… here’s hoping some publisher will give him an advance to realise his vision.
