Looky Here! Updated. Again.
Look! Go and see my wee brother’s fabulous photography page! I say wee, he’s 6 foot tall, but he’ll always be a wee fry to me. Anyway, I know some of yoos like the whole photog thing and these are terrific. They are primarily of the Outer Hebrides and Perthshire. He’s working in the North Sea now so I expect a lot more photos of stormscapes and watery expanses as far as the eye can see.
I’d like to see some Flung Object Art though, Weebro. Found Object Art has had its day. I’d like to see photos of things flung off the rig and bobbing in the vast unfriendly sea, off to Norway or other gobbledygook lands.
What’s that? Littering? What about the porpoises getting their snouts caught in the flung art?
Bugger the porpoises! I never met one of them who wasn’t a bring-back-hanging Tory. They’re all about climbing the social ladder and who can be the most ostentatiously tasteful. And I don’t like how they laugh. If porpoises had the opposable flippers to fling objects on land and then take interesting pictures of them, you can bet your bippy they’d do it in a New York minute without a thought for our snouts getting stuck.
These are fab photos though, chums. The idea is to post your work and get hints from other photographers on how to improve. Sort of collective experimentation and learning. It’s cool. Definitely worth a looksee.
I love the Digital Age.
UPDATE:
Acksherly, you know what? Go here. If you like, ‘an that. I like these black and white ones better, especially the sheepskins drying. They’re a bit muddled up with people photos that will mean nothing to you but most of it is Wee Niaff’s photog. Ignore me being wee. The Wee niaff is there himself and Mrs. Wee Niaff. And my granny. There’s a speed control at the side so you can zip right through the people stuff to get to the ’scapes.
UPDATE 2:
This is the most updated a post of mine has ever been. But look! The lovely K8 the Gr8 has given me The Dog’s Bollix! Cheers, m’darlin’! I’ll try to remember to feed him.
October 8th, 2008 at 4:46 am
I like.
Cheers.
October 8th, 2008 at 5:06 am
i like the landscapes particularly i’d love to see some sea scapes, great work talented tall brother you have!
October 8th, 2008 at 7:17 am
They should have shot Lord of the Rings there instead of New Zealand. Were you allowed to watch the rams rutting when you were wee?
October 8th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Rand, me too.
Honey, he’ll be mortified i posted about him which is, of course, why I did it.
Nanas, Presbyterian rams don’t rut. They go behind a peatstack, grit their teeth and do what they must to make lambs, then they fall to their knees and pray God to forgive them for their filthiness.
October 8th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Do they have any goats over there?
October 8th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Some, Bock. But the sheep reigns supreme.
October 8th, 2008 at 10:51 am
he’s a spooky so and so eh……
October 8th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Lovely photos and music. Where were the girls at the wedding?
It’s famine or feast here:) Congrats on dog’s rude bits.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:04 am
I’ll need to have a proper look later, but for now I’m just thinking Darkland
October 8th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Why the wee laddie has a talent, no doubt. A real eye for shape, form, light and composition, and barely out of short trousers.
And is that you with the piggytails? They look like the kind to be dipped in inkwells by ne’er do wells.
And congratulations on the dog’s danglies – highly deserved!
October 8th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
what is all this nonsense and color? and…pictures. PICTURES.
if you insist on rocking my world, i’m going to need some more tea.
October 8th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
I loves your old school pics, and the shot of Travis Bickle Ram doing his “You lookin’ at me?” routine through the gate. Some class b+w shots that make me want to experiment with it.
All looks like classic Wicker Man country, very like parts of the west here. And kilts, so many kilts! Is that mostly Clan MacDonald tartan? (Twas all invented by late 19thC revivalists, or is that just revisionism?)
October 8th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Makes you want to walk. And keep walking until you fall off the world.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:15 am
Sam, I responded to your email but it said it couldn’t be delivered. You may want to check the account?
October 9th, 2008 at 4:11 am
manuel, what you’re picking up is that feeling you get that far North, that God is eyeballing you and all you do. That feeling is writ in the landscape. the rocks and trees feel it too. Add a bit of swirly mist and meeting half a dozen headless horsemen on the road won’t surprise you in the least.
Pat, the girls were bridesmaids. They were three and i discovered every mother with a child in a long ceremony’s secret: milky buttons – easily and noiselessly doled out in church, plus dribbled white chocolate will be invisible on cream coloured dresses.
Eryl, Andstormynightland.
Kim, ta, mate. Yep, that’s me. Look at those British teeth! These kind of teeth simply don’t happen to American children. We’re looking into refinancing to pay for the extensive scaffolding the Prob Children’s teeth are going to require.
Kara, tea? No! Don’t waste a rocked world on tea! Not while there’s gin still left in the world.
Conan, Robert De Niro actually did model his mad stare on Lewis blackface sheep. And yeah, tartan’s a load of old bunkum hooha. Still, it kept the kilt alive and there’s much to rejoice in there…
Eolai, are you telling me my brother’s photography is making you suicidal?
Medbh, yeah, I sent it accidentally wineily from the email account from the old Yahoo server. It’s defunct for picking messages up which I didn’t realize at the time, but I can still send them for some reason. Sorry about that.
October 9th, 2008 at 5:36 am
Milky buttons are fine for keeping kids quiet, I suppose, but we always relied on hash cakes. It was a tradition among the old people, you know?
October 9th, 2008 at 7:18 am
People had a lot more fun in the olden days. I thought it was the lack of 24 hour news cycles, but a spot of hash cake with their tea sounds more likely.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:30 am
are you telling me my brother’s photography is making you suicidal?
I was thinking more of a long walk.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
well i’m a bit overwhelmed chaps and chapettes. i havn’t used myspace for ages, i think i’m getting old…but jobbychilddiddy will always be 2 years older!! (can you sense the sibbling love we have). anyhoo thanks for the positive comments, it might make me pick up my camera again after almost 9 months of couch induced laziness.
sami, i love the pic at the top of the page..where is it from?
October 9th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
no probs jobbychilddiddy, i’ve got some wanky arty type pics i’ll post for you. abstract peatstacks and the like…