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Another reason to get an iPod

Oh yeah. Like you needed one. Anyway, here's the perfect excuse to upgrade to a disgusting 40Gb iPod ... if you have a digital camera, anyhoo. The Belkin media reader allows you to dump CF cards onto an iPod, turning into a digital wallet. Seeing as how the digital wallet I bought was a total POS, I have to admit I'm tempted.

Oh blimey

I just won the Streetphoto Salon with a picture I very idly entered as a throwaway... this one, in fact, shot last Christmas on a beaten up 4×5 with a shitty lens in the middle of a thick fog as the light was going. It took me about three hours to find this place, which is an abandoned cold war listening station in the depths of rural Lincolnshire. A google for 'Stenigot' will get you there (eventually).

Next subject will be "The Way We Live Now", with apologies to Thackeray.

Noblex Oblige

I'm a sucker for new cameras, I admit it. Latest is a Noblex 150 UX, which is a 120 swing-lens camera with a horizontal FOV of about 146 degrees. I bought this as a way of continuing my exploration of panoramas. Up until now I've been doing 360s almost exclusively, using stitching software and a digital camera or, rather less successfully, a Seitz Roundshot .

The Noblex is a lovely thing with a bright and fairly accurate viewfinder (accurate in terms of FOV - it obviously doesn't show the cylindrical projection produced by a swing lens camera). Best of all, for me, it frees me from the straitjacket of always having to shoot 360, which as anyone who has tried it will know is a phenomenally difficult thing to do... like a triple back somersault.

So anyway, here are some Noblex pix from over Christmas, which I spent marooned on the farm we rented with the most hideous flu. The only thing I could do was photograph, and the only thing I could photograph was my immediate surroundings.

A new beginning

I've been meaning to do this for a long time. Ever since I started running the Unintended Consequences blog during the war last spring, I'd realized this was actually the form my photo meanderings should take.

I've grown tired of the format of the Pinkheadedbug site, which seems to refer to a version of myself now several years out of date, and especially with its emphasis on traditional street photography. But it's such a leviathan of a site and so heavily linked to that I just don't have the courage or energy to update it.

What I particularly don't like about that site is the emphasis on 'portfolios' of completed work, which seem to indicate that my photography is a closed book rather than in the state of navel-gazing flux that it usually is. It's also extremely difficult and time consuming to add new work, with the result that I tend to just throw up ad-hoc galleries and post links to Streetphoto or Stillphoto. Consequently, pinkheadedbug.com appears to be dead or abandoned, which I suppose in a way it is.

Anyway, we'll see if this format works. I haven't quite figured out how I'm going to incorporate photos yet, beyond throwing in the odd thumbnail, but I'll figure something out.

Thanks to Kevin Bjorke whose kick-ass photoblog pointed the way ahead.