Pete's Blog

It's amazing when you open your eyes how fascinating the architecture looks on even the most mundane shop windows. Here in Worksop I have walked or driven past this carpet shop on Gateford Road hundreds of times, but never spotted the interesting detail

I've been a music fan since I walked into Wilson & Pecks ( a music shop in Sheffield (long since closed) with a selection of records) with my mum when I was about 10. I heard a happy song playing over the speaker system and asked my mum what it was.

I've been experimenting with fast flash tonight trying to record the bursting of a balloon and I'm fairly happy with this shot. I used a new portable studio flash, test will be going up on ePHOTozine in a few days, and a Sony Alpha A55 set to high spee

I went over to Baslow Edge in Derbyshire this evening as I hoped we'd get a sunset, and we did. It wasn't brilliant but ok and a good chance to test the portable studio flash I'm currently reviewing.

Two shots - one of the background, another of me. I then cloned the background over my face to give a surreal effect. That's today's photo365

A trip to the hospital today to have an EMG / Nerve Conduction test and I have to say it hurt! Quick fire electric shocks up the arm like putting your fingers in a plug socket over and over again. We'll not quite as powerful, but I certainly felt it.

I'm playing around with the portable studio flash we have in for test some more and have no started to try the fp mode which promises 7 frames per second. I wondered if it can do more and tried it with the new Sony Alpha A55 with its 10fps mode.

I'm currently testing a new portable studio flash and before I go out I'm getting familiar at home...and that means good old me as the subject. This was taken a few minutes ago in my office.

Taking a photo each day for 365 days is an interesting challenge and some days it's quite unusual how you get to you photo idea. Today I was looking at a book on self portraits for ePHOTOzine's book reviews section.

I'm in the process of reviewing a new portable studio flash head and was just getting familiar with the settings. This was taken as a quick test. The main pics will be done next week.