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now that is a scary face!!
 
petemc said:
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Feeling better today thanks to everyones nice comments yesterday and some sleep. Spent some time reading a few HDR discussions. Same old silly comments. I think the worst offender is the way people see HDR as something outside of normal photography. It think its a bit dangerous to do so. HDR is no different to RAW. Its a way of getting more detail out of your photos. HDR, B&W, colour, lomo, are all ways of getting the end result. Its all photography. The sooner people simply accept it as a photographic technique and move on the better. If you don't, well I have a gun. I will end you.
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That picture is ace. Very funny:) First time I've ever seen you smile. It suits you fella!
 
kitten said:
Two photos of you smiling in one week??! Be careful Pete, your reputation is at stake :p

Love that one though, it shows your silly side :D

As for

This is my take on that:

Quite often the problem is that people don't have anything specific to be depressed about but they feel sad and low and like crying all the time and sometimes they don't - for apparently no reason.

Generally it's because you cope. And then sometimes, when you let your guard down, it all hits you right between the eyes. Its like when you're hungry but you don't know what to eat because nothing is what you want.

Sometimes there is nothing tangible wrong - nothing you can put your finger but something just isn't right and it can affect you in so many different ways. A lot of dealing with depression is about trying to figure out what is wrong so that you can deal with the source. Like sometimes you have a sore neck because a lower back muscle is strained, you might be irritable and angry for no apparent reason, but there is something causing it. It's trying to identify what *that something* is that's the problem because half the time, you don't know. Imagine knowing that you have nothing to be depressed about but crying because you feel so rubbish and have no idea why. To me, that's even scarier than being depressed or miserable because something bad has happened, at least you know why you're feeling that way.

Keep your chin up chick, you know where I am and that I understand.
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Yer thats really it. I get in that mood and negative things that I should be able to take, as I've been doing this for 5 years, hit me harder than they should. Its not really them, its just depression. Its stupid and pointless.

fletch5 said:
now that is a scary face!!
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Hopefully those bad hdr photographers out there will fear it :p

liss said:
your eyes look funky
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Thank you very much!!! eBay, decent price.

Dangleman said:
That picture is ace. Very funny:) First time I've ever seen you smile. It suits you fella!
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Haha. Yer I don't do it often.

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SNOW! We got some snow. Totally randomly. Edinburger got a blizzard and then so did we. Only about 30 mins of it but really thick stuff. The good kind. Times like this that I wish I lived 5 minutes from Liverpool city center instead of 30. I wanna be there on Bold Street getting the action shots. Also the 14-24 really isn't a snow lens. Its covered instantly due to the front of the lens. I tried smiling but I felt a little silly standing outside my house trying for a snowy self portrait.
 
Pete i LOVE this snow one!!!! You look so cute!! Hehe the one before scares me a bit though!!


I want some snow :(
 
Snow, great! Except we never seem to get it on the shores of the Ribble :( Interesting stuff about your ups and downs too, something I can relate to. A well-timed compliment can make such a difference, unfortunately the same can also be said about a negative view of ones work :shrug:
 
yay for snow \o/
 
hey pete, you forget to upload your image??
 
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Obama's inauguration in Liverpool. I felt it was an important event for the world, not just America. I wanted to document it in some way and there was a party in Toxteth so I went along. It was packed out and a great thing to document. So much support for the guy.


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Eugh taxes. Not doing well on the organisational side of freelancing. So I've lost 2 months statements. Theres just too much junk in my room. My life, my work, my rest. All in one room. There are no options until I can move out. Crappy paperwork.
 
petemc said:
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Eugh taxes. Not doing well on the organisational side of freelancing. So I've lost 2 months statements. Theres just too much junk in my room. My life, my work, my rest. All in one room. There are no options until I can move out. Crappy paperwork.
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I know all about that, it sucks!
 
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Work work work. Sorting out all my images from 2008 for use in a book called 3662008. 6 of us documented every day of 2008 and now we've got to make sure its all in order.

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Tax doesn't have to be taxing. But it is.
 
I kept getting the stupid tax return ads via Spotify while working on it. I wanted to hit that damn woman for telling me to do it. I was!
 
Its Lightroom 2.2. I love it. Use it more than anything.
 
Doing well with this Pete, enjoying getting an incite into the word of a pro photog. Interesting to see all the challenges you come up against that you dont necassarily think about like for example the tax returns.

Keep it up buddy!
 
Thanks :) Ok got a few shots to put up hopefully tomorrow.
 
I'm back baby!

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So then. The Mac's 25th birthday. Happy birthday Mac. Been a great few years working with you. Love the way you've grown over the years, gone from strength to strength while retaining a level of beauty that no other computer has. Heres to 2009 and beyond.

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So here I am on the streets of China Town minutes after standing down wind of a firecracker tube. Great day out. Just watch out for the bits and the smoke. Its scary how you suddenly can't breathe while outside.

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First official meeting of the Liverpool Flickr group, ever. As far as I know the group hasn't really met or anything, which is a shame. There is a specific group for Liverpool meets but the two seem very detached. I was browsing the Manchester group and its huge. Lots of disucssions, photos from big meets and such. It reminded me of the fun I had in Toronto one weekend. I was in a totally different country but I was a photographer from Flickr so I was one of them. Awesome weekend. Surely we can do that in Liverpool? We've had #barcamp here and plenty of social media types, photography types. I hope this is the start of more.

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Early this morning, literally 4 minutes after 12am I was trying for star trails. I've been commissioned to take the shot so it needs to be done. Its easy too. Setup camera, push shutter and sit in car for an hour. Annoyingly by the time I had done this test shot the cloud you can see in the bottom right had covered the sky. Seems like a very good location for it though. 5 minutes away, dark enough. Just need another good night. Kinda wanna try more of them. Its a whole area of photography I haven't explore and well it can be absolutely stunning.
 
petemc said:
First official meeting of the Liverpool Flickr group, ever. As far as I know the group hasn't really met or anything, which is a shame. There is a specific group for Liverpool meets but the two seem very detached. I was browsing the Manchester group and its huge. Lots of disucssions, photos from big meets and such. It reminded me of the fun I had in Toronto one weekend. I was in a totally different country but I was a photographer from Flickr so I was one of them. Awesome weekend. Surely we can do that in Liverpool? We've had #barcamp here and plenty of social media types, photography types. I hope this is the start of more.
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Liverpool's Twestival has potential for interesting things.
 
It does and I'm going but its more for anyone on Twitter. I only spent 2 days with these guys in Toronto but there was a definite sense of a community that in some ways I've felt has been missing since I got back, 3 years ago.
 
star shot is definatly the best of the lot, amazing all the colours in the sky
 
:popcorn:
 
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A foggy drive home after an enjoyable night out at the Redeye meet. There was an interesting slideshow on climate change that focused on anything but the polar ice caps. The great thing about Redeye and these events is that it reminds me that photography isn't landscapes, flowers, kittens, portraits. Photography is capturing light. You just have to know what the light is you want to capture.

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Beachballing. *sigh* Trying to sort out a library with 80,000 images hard and especially so when the damn computer hangs every few minutes. I ordered an extra 1gb of ram which will hopefully fix it.

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The Arena art auction at Leaf Tea Shop. Very packed out, which took me by surprise. Good event and the auctioneer is brilliant. Although it turns out he hated La Machine because he didn't get to see it. The print I auctioned was of La Machine. Doh.

The full video is on vimeo.

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Edward Chambre-Hardman's hat. This is his hat! Haha I love it. At his exhibition at Victoria Gallery they had his frickin hat! As if his hat was as important as the camera he used. Haha. I don't want to sound egotistical at all but he is basically me. I'm not just saying that to big myself up either because Metro called me the modern day Chambre-Hardman last year which was mind blowing. But even before that I could really see alot of myself in the man.

I visited his house on Rodney Street, which everyone should do, and it was eye opening. The guy never threw anything away. Its a small thing but I never do that either. He was a complete perfectionist. He would spend hours working on one photo in the darkroom. He was a master at "Photoshop" or darkroom technology back in the day. He was brilliant at black and white photography. I wish I could remember his quote about why black and white works so well. Its so similar to what I say. I just love his work. The way he's captured the city during a time I would have loved to have lived in.

He lived near me at one point in Barnston. He wore a hat. He didn't throw anything away. He was a strong believer in black and white. He tried to convey what *he* saw to the viewer. He spent his time photographing people n places in Liverpool.

I love that they kept his hat.

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Its snowing.

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Yey its really snowing now. But I have so much work to do.

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Wrapping up prints for clients. The "fun" side of doing prints. You have to print, mount, frame, wrap and ship them. Thankfully my Dad helps.

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Um so I kinda misunderstood what a client asked me. I thought they wanted a photo of my favourite gear but it was with my favourite gear. I spent about an hour or so trying to take a nice photo of my D700. *doy* Still, its a nice photo.

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My little netbook. Its a steal at £150 and so far all I use it for is IRC n stuff while watching TV. Its great though because its so small and light I can pop it in my manbag and away I go. I have a laptop but its tied into 3 external HD's now. Its not really a laptop anymore.

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Star trail fail again. Damn clouds.
 
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Yer so I didn't get around to taking a shot today. I've been wrapped up editing the HDR guide book. Its an insanely gruellng process but it has to be done.

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Walking walking walking. I'm trying to walk every day now. I'm going to take my D700 + 50mm too because walking around my home town is quite eye opening. When you stop and look around its easy to spot that things actually happen here.

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Horseys! A couple of horses at Landican on my daily walk. You're meant to do 10,000 steps and I did around 8,000. I'm sure I could do 10,000 and it would be tiring but thats the point.

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I bet someone bitches about the highlights in that shot ;)
 
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