I love the internet for introducing me to photography that in no other circumstance would i come across. God bless Flickr too!

The image above was shot by Jason Mullins with his iPhone 4 on a flight from London to Guernsey. The weird black lines you can see are actually distorted, disconnected copies of the propeller blades, but this isn’t a Photoshop trick; this was how the image came out of the phone. This is called rolling shutter capture. You can see more like this in the rolling shutter Flickr group.

The San Francisco Bay Bridge (as seen from Treasure Island) on a Saturday morning at 4:55am. By Troy Holden.

I have adopted a new hobby lately. Well. I say hobby…

I trawl the ‘Recommended’ section of my Google Reader account looking for odd and quirky things. Its amazing what you can find!

For example, how amazing is this walk in bookcase?! Bet it smells fantastic.

The Ark, designed by Rintala Eggertsson Architects is a book lovers dream – the ultimate bookshelf, one that you can literally climb inside and spend the day in. Talk about getting lost in a good book!

Or how about this (expensive) Honeymoon suite?

Have you ever seen anything more amazing?! Conrad Maldives Rangali Island‘s unique underwater suite is actually the hotel’s restaurant "Ithaa," which can been converted into a boudoir below the Indian Ocean in honor of its fifth anniversary. One night comes complete with Champagne breakfast and aquatic swim-bys from blue-striped snapper, sting rays, parrot fish, and moray eels. The tab is pretty steep, and you need to request the room at least 14 days in advance, but it certainly gives new meaning to the term "sleeping with the fishes."

Cool or what?!

This is a prototype digital camera Kodak produced way back in 1975. The toaster-sized system relied on a cassette tape for recording data. The digitised images took 23 seconds to record to tape which then had to be played back using a specialised system, shown in the second photo. Damn! 1975? I wasn’t even born. I never would have guessed they had this sort of thing back then.

I honestly can’t imagine dealing with 23-second-per-image write times and cassette tapes. Memories of a Sinclair ZX Spectrum come flooding back!

Its too hot. I can’t sleep, so what better way to spend my evening than to Monkey around with a few old photos and post them on here?

Exactly.

I read somewhere that if you ever have a crap photo, the best way to give it some life is a bit of Helvetica and some Sepia toning. Apparently it diverts the eye and adds an ‘Olde Worlde’ feel…

Et Voila!

More practice needed, me thinks!

Click the image above to see how 49 Rock stars have changed over the course of their career. Spot the drug and cosmetic surgery addictions!

Shepherds delight?

Quite proud of this shot taken from my bedroom window.

Canon EOS 400. Standard lens.

Cropped with Photoshop CS3

Only click below if you have a strong stomach and nerves of steel. I honestly see this kind of thing very intimidating! Also very unsexy and unattractive.

What do you think?

(Apologies to those on smart phones who didn’t get a choice of viewing the picture)

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This rather odd movie by Oliver Laric shows how most things we see in the media are not original and how we have become so used to seeing replication that we do not even notice it anymore.

Thought provoking but irresistable.

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A beautiful day finally breaks the bitterness of the winter we’ve had.

I’ve spent the better part of my day off with all the windows open and looking out my window.

A clear sky and not even the hint of a breeze as the limbs of the tree reach towards the great blue; silent and unmoving.

Visited the Trafford Centre to get some appropriate ‘top-down’ tilt shift photos.