The Shortest Day

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has passed, roll on sunshine...

One from the Vaults

An old publicity shot for a friend's band...ripped off from Jill Furmanovsky

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PhotoVoice - A charity transforming lives through photography

Sri Lanka

From the PhotoVoice website..."By giving photographic
training to the politically and economically voiceless,
PhotoVoice enables its constituents to advocate for change
themselves. Through witnessing the daily challenges as they
see them, we get closer to truly understanding their lives
and needs and are perhaps moved ourselves to help bring
about change..." The site contains some refreshingly original
work, most of which is produced by children. The charity also
asks for donations of photographic equipment to enable
further work.

Camille Pissarro, drawing with light

Photography means 'drawing with light' and although I study
other photographers to discover the best methods for this,
Pissarro, undoubtedly one of the masters of 'painting light',
provides inspiration too. Despite an unparalleled gift for
drawing, he was modest enough to stifle this ability to
capture detail, in order to concentrate on light and how it
affected colour. His true gift was to recreate the essense of
a scene, normally of the mundane, yet still engender a
response in the viewer that suggests they are seeing much
more than is on the canvas...and there are few
photographers capable of that...
More on Pissarro

Inter Milldam

..is the rather unoriginal monicker of my 5-a-side team...however we do produce the strangest match reports..go read 'em at the club site...

Tidy demolition

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Wondered what the crashing noise was at the end of the street...

Freecycle

A new method of recycling items you no longer need has arrived...just give it away...for free. Freecycle is a website that puts you in touch with local people wanting rid of odds and ends (piece of carpet anyone?) and others who can't collect enough 'it just needs a new plug' sandwichmakers. It's a great idea and stops the landfills from overflowing.

Going to the park in 2046..if we don't recycle

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Warning - extremely silky skills inside

Ronaldinho movies..pure genius

seafront today - Southsea, Portsmouth

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Must have been a high tide last night, half the beach was on the promenade..Plenty of flotsam and jetsam (old georgraphy teacher will like that)so a beachcomber's paradise. Metal Detectorers(?) weren't about though, good, in fact next time you visit the beach hide something metal with 'you sad tit' written on it...it's for their own benefit...really..

Hands off Cuba !!

Register your support for the 'End the Blockade' Campaign. Find articles on the USA's policy towards Cuba...get irate...print out some cool slogans...then realise you're more interested in looking at photos of Che.

Ricky Gervais

Visit XFM and listen to Ricky Gervais cackling as he's entertained by the unfeasibly dim-witted producer Karl. Gervais has also just recorded a podcast for the Guardian with the same team.

Bad Film Reviews - UK Round up

"Mrs. Henderson Presents"
All I can say is:come friendly bombs and fall on our native film industry.
London, musical theatre and the war here all look as if they have been
conceived by Dennis Potter with a lobotomy...
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

"Where The Truth Lies"
Fundamentally, Where The Truth Lies asks "Whodunnit?" but in such
a way as to discourage any temptation to find out....
Anthony Quinn, The Independent

"Saw 2"
The film's grungey tone suggests that its makers have made a close study of Seven,
and concluded that it would have been better had it featured a man cooked in an oven
and a girl with no bra who coughs up blood at regular intervals...
Xan Brooks, The Guardian

Harry Redknapp for BBC Sports Personality 2005

While Droopy the Dog is replaced by the Bassett Hound at Southampton FC, Harry has discovered that the vacant manager's seat at Portsmouth may not be offered to him. Can't find a shoot yourself in the foot/self destruct/have cake will stuff in mouth category on the BBC website, why not vote for him anyway just to say thanks for taking Southampton down. Harry said yesterday on BBC Five Live he was in limbo, but I heard the Catholic church had just abolished the place so little babies can go straight to heaven, regardless of original sin, so it seems even the Almighty has had enough of the heavy lidded double crosser.
P.S. So where is Harry now? Any suggestions?...maybe that place where the fly and Jeff Goldblum got mingled

Maradona - The drug swilling cheating poisonous pixie was good though

The best soccer photo of all time...probably
Why not visit his website (diegomaradona.com) and see the dirty little gaucho at his best

Update

Just posting a few of my pics of Portsmouth as I gradually get to grips with the blogging instruction manual, spent the last four hours staring at the screen...my eyes......

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First Post

Testing, testing...1...2....3....(clears throat) Good evening everyone. This is a little nerve wracking isn't it? What if you've noth.........

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