I think I was out until 3am this morning dancing to extremely loud techno music in the basement room of Bonnuh’s favourite venue in Loughborough. On a school night, too. I think it was fun. I’ve really only just come round.

Also, the freshers are here and I think I started collecting pictures of their T-shirts. The evidence was found on my camera…

Falkner Eggington

David Collett

Oh and the big-screen tellies in the pub weren’t doing so well…

So I guess it pays to always carry your camera if you’re going out for a night you erm… won’t remember much of.

I can just see the teller’s face when he presented his lone nice shiny 50p coin.

Found in a book. Great artwork.

Dear Stu,

Sincerely,
Sally Holman
Director of Customer Benefits

It’s interesting that they consider shipping your order to be a customer benefit. I would have called it part of the deal to be honest.

Names of companies and people and other personal details have been changed to protect the innocent. No animals were harmed in the crafting of this blog

It’s a great idea - a device you connect to the hot-shoe of your camera and it logs the latitude, longitude and direction of every shot as you take it. It stores this information on an SD card so you can later correlate the location information with your photographs.

However, there’s no way I’m putting something that looks like this on the top of my camera. I think I’d rather just use a notebook and pen as normal.

What they need is a belt-pack gps and logger with an extension cable from the camera’s flash connector. The connector to use would probably be the external flash cable, rather than the hotshoe - you might need that for something like… oh, I don’t know… maybe a flash? I’m still not sure I’d be interested in buying one, though.

I never realised that running a photography business would involve only approximately 10% photography, possibly less. The rest of the time is spent chasing up - suppliers and customers, administrating, accounting, travelling, processing, marketing, promoting, emailing, the list goes on.

I expected some amount of all of the above, but didn’t realise that every single client would need chasing up. Well - I guess if I don’t want their business, then they don’t need chasing… I could have a very relaxed time indeed, but as a business model it’s not great.

That’s not to say I’m not enjoying it - I am, a great deal. And what’s more, when I’m in the office, I can’t get rained on, so that’s nice!

Hi Stu,

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So… is this spam, or do they know something I don’t?

It’s always good to do these highly accurate internet tests

You Are 24% Sociopath

From time to time, you may be a bit troubled and a bit too charming for your own good. It’s likely that you’re not a sociopath… just quite smart and a bit out of the mainstream!

An astounding piece of engineering, and just as astounding puppetry. You may have seen this before - it’s from The Sultan’s Elephant, a three-day free show put on in London earlier this year.

Armor(sic) of God Pyjamas

What more could you ask for?