strangerpixel

I’ve decided to move my albums to Flickr and upgrade to a Pro account. Zenphoto may be free and better than ever, but for exposure, community and inspiration, it’s got to be Flickr. Since I made the switch I’ve been practically addicted.

The other reason for the switch is that I’m re-designing this website. It’s been over a year, and it needs a freshen up. More of which very soon.

My preoccupation with mannequins is ongoing. Could be time to devote an entire album to my plastic friends.

This one from the backstreets of Copenhagen.

Pictobrowser is a nice Flash slideshow tool for your Flickr photos. Thanks to Times Emit for this tip. (more…)

Photographing the digital print bureau at London College of Fashion threw up some interesting colours and shapes…

Most mornings are like any other at London College of Fashion. But not this morning. Walking through the Fashion Space Gallery in the direction of my office, I found the door blocked by a huddle of females. When they didn’t disperse, I photographed them.

Turns out these mannequins were part of a design competition for high street retailers, the theme being recycling, and the reuse of materials ordinarily discarded during the fashion design process. As I write, Heart FM is outside in the gallery doing a feature on the competition. Entrants include Wedgwood and Playboy.

Just as a footnote to this post, I’m not unhealthily obsessed by mannequins or wigs.

My colleague Belinda May dreamt up the idea of creating some installation art in the main theatre of the Rootstein Hopkins Space at London College of Fashion. I borrowed a Canon Ixus and got stuck in.

More on Belinda’s Flickr.

Recently I was invited to have a gallery at Jason Pogo’s website photographii.com. Pogo has long offered his own work via this site - fantastic stuff involving lots of quirky angles, close-ups, textures, black & white, as well as people, actual people (a place I’ve yet to go with my own photography) - but has now decided to make it a community site for photographers he invites to take part. My pics are now live. (more…)

The brains behind Zenphoto has created a new beta theme based on Google’s PicasaWeb image albums. And I’m now using it! (more…)

Excitement: strangerpixel has a new camera. So I’ve been out taking pictures of… pic’n'mix.

If you were looking for photos, visit my brand new albums section. Here, thanks to those generous people at zenphoto, is an efficient open-source PHP image gallery.

Said gallery is now in place thanks to my new hosting arrangements - take a bow, Dreamhost - which have allowed me access to the required GD library scripts.

High-resolution files, prints and calendars of my photographs are available on request.