Saturday, May 19, 2007

Lyndon's Cayman birthday Pub crawl

(All pub crawl fotografs taken with a Canon G7 - light, nimble and er...relatively inconspicuous - but shitty battery life. No flash used except for the pic of the gangsta with the mobile phone)


Slip inside the eye of your mind - don't you know you might find
a better place to play - You said that you'd never been
but all the things that you've seen - will slowly fade away


Yeah nice camera. Watch me steal it from that showoff when he's not watching

...And how much do they pay you in the bottle factory Mike?

You wanna follow me into the toilet as well do you?

Don't look back in anger / Does my bum look big in this?

Fuming in the background

We've just come back from a holiday to Chernobyl. See, no side-affects

No, you can't have my lollipop

Whose the freakshow on my left?

I bet If I race you I can beat you on my scooter? Don't believe me? What's so funny?

piss take

Ok guys, whose gonna tell them that dominoes is a girls game?

Spot the twat with the white helmet

Absynthe minded

Menthol addiction

No, I don't think you should ride your scooter home tonight Lyndon

Commercial shot (for Smirnoff Ice) - soon to grace billboards in Cayman

Oh my god. That feels good. I'm about to explode.

Cheeky chapper / Mmm...threesome

Automatic for the people

Wasim! What have you done with the rest of my body? / Bobby's got Knobalitus

Human traffic

Mmm...shall I nick this bike?

Yeah, I've got a bike now!

Shhh! (whisper) : I think he's a heavy drinker

Short Canon G7 Review

This is a nifty camera for those people not wanting to shell out for an SLR. Features of note include manual controls allowing you complete control over aperture/shutter speeds and a maximum aperture range of f2.8 - 4.8. The design of the camera harks back to the Leica, with precision engineered dials that feel robust. ISO can be selected quickly and the camera layout allows quick and hassle free changes to all major settings.

This is a great camera for those starting out and wanting to learn the essentials of photography. It can also fit in one's pocket and doesn't draw much attention to itself. I've taken this baby to Cuba with no problems. It's not as responsive as my Canon 5D - shutter lag, slow focusing. But it's a matter of adapting to it and knowing it's limitations - and then you can make the most of it's abilities. Definitely comes recommended.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Buzzing with intelligence?

Ever since my undergraduate days at Imperial conducting experiments on the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster, we were taught that insects (and indeed most biological organisms) are nothing but biological automatia; robots incapable of freewill; albeit very sophisticated ones. I've always believed that animals simply respond to external stimuli, which their brains then process and send out the necessary response. However, an international study of fruitflies appears to show that they appear to 'make choices' - that they may be capable of exhibiting a primitive form of freewill; a precursor to the advanced freewill we humans enjoy. Contrary to what most people believe, we humans don't have 100% free will either. We too, like our cousins in the animal kingdom respond automatically to stimuli without conscious thought. Don't believe me? Next time you see a gorgeous girl and your heart skips a beat, when you see a little child and you start going all goo-goo-gaga, the process of falling in love...well now you know. Freewill? How much do we really have? Are we not the product of our past and genetics. Creatures of habit. Break free from the determinism that binds us i say; that clogs us; that siphons off our childish wonder for life and the world. Live for now. Live for today. Because when tomorrow comes, it may well be too late...

Monday, May 07, 2007

One world, One life, One need...in the night (Cuba)






Foto-grafs taken with a Canon G7 (point and shoot)
Aperture priority, ISO 1600, widescreen mode

Monday, April 30, 2007

Still life's from Sundays BBQ


































Thursday, April 26, 2007

'One' (U2)

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Inside the heart of a vagabond

West of the sunset stands my house
There and east of the dawn
North to the Arctic runs my yard
South to the Pole my lawn
Seven seas to sail my ships
To the ends of the earth and beyond
Drifter's gold is for me to spend
for I am a swashbuckling vagabond

Fabulous cities are mine to loot
Queens of the earth to wed
Fruits of the world are mine to eat
The couch of a king my bed
All that I see is mine to keep
Foolish the fancy seems
But I am rich with the wealth of sights
The coin of the realm of dreams