Nylon Parla and other news

I’ve been a naughty blogger. I’ve carried out that one sin which every blogger is guilty of at least once in their digital life…..i haven’t updated my blog.
Oops.
One reason is that while succesfully purging myself from Facebook I have been basking in liberation from its clutches and enjoying fresh, digital freedom from it.
Now that i’ve [...]

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Kodachrome and Exams

My exams are lingering on, hence my lack of entries here…however, here is something I wrote for another blog I used to author called ‘Seven Candles.’ I thought i’d import it here so its not lost in the digital annals of time….
I love photography
I love the sound of the shutter on a digital SLR.
I love [...]

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Photoshoot for ‘Uglylovely’ hats

I conducted my first fashion photoshoot at the weekend for my friend Sahar’s hat business; ‘Uglylovely.‘
Another friend, Doroty, modelled, whilst Sahar’s friend and make up artist, Amber, did some of the make up.
It was learning for me, learning how to use Nikon’s wireless flash system creatively, as well as flash under daylight.
Twas great fun for [...]

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NYLON PARLA

Nylon Parla is back, this week’s theme is ‘Streetlife’
We have entries from New York, London, Paris, Boston and Chicago…..
Check it out here.

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nineteen days

Nineteen days, much like the last initiative I was involved in, ‘morn and eve,’ is a photoblog collaboration.
However….the difference with nineteen days is that it is one specifically for the nineteen day long Baha’i Fast.
Starting on the 2nd of March and ending on the 20th March, ‘nineteen days’ will feature 3 photographers (and 3 photos) [...]

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The hiatus is over.

After a long hiatus, Nylon Parla is back.
The photoblog collaboration features Baha’i photographers from four different world class cities, submitting their interpretation of a weekly theme. We like to think this is an artistic example of ‘unity in diversity.’
This week’s theme is ‘culture’.
Kick starting Nylon Parla back into action are photographs from myself (London), [...]

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every morn and eve

‘every morn and eve’ is a photoblog founded by an old friend of mine from my university days at Queen Mary, University of London (2000-2003).
Now in New York, Amy Sahba is a journalist for CNN and founded this blog with her friend Leila.
Not only am I drawing your attention to it because it is a [...]

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Faces of New York

Faces of New York is a great photoblog  project by photographer Simon Hoegsberg who looks at how one’s spirit is reflected in their face.
About it he says:
Once in a while I see a person on the street who immediately attracts my attention. I’m fascinated by the appearance of the person and feel a strong urge [...]

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Photos from the Bahá’í Regional Conference in London

So I attended the Bahá’í Regional Conference in London, UK.
One of 41 conferences spanning planet Earth. It was amazing, inspirational, refreshing, educational and also entertaining.
More information about it is here.
I was also fortunate to be one of the official photographers for it….
So since this is a short post to get things moving again….and since a [...]

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Fox

fox at night, originally uploaded by martin.gallagher24.
I see you Fox, you try and hide, when I come running
I see you Fox, scurry into the darkness when I come gunning
or driving, my point home.
However, when my values are shifted into neutral, and my hand break is on,
you rear your head and come crawling back with a [...]

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