Lets get festive 11

canon eos 40d, tokina 12-24mm lens

so this is christmas and that is my granny.
today everyone on my dads side of the family went to my uncles chip shop to have our christmas dinner, it was nice and everyone ate themselves stupid.
christmas has been good this year. win

taken in longs chip shop, broadstone

Lets get festive 10

canon eos 40d, tokina 12-24mm lens, sigma flash ceiling bounce

wrapping presents in joes room on christmas eve.
my little brothers so excited its untrue, this is his first christmas that he really sort of understands and can get properly hyper about.
nearly at the end of the Lets get festive series, i think it has helped me get into the whole christmas thing a lot more than usual and i am actually genuinely looking forward to waking up tomorrow and doing everything.

taken in joes room

Lets get festive 9

canon eos 40d, tokina 12-24mm lens, sigma flash

this was also pretty last minute because i finished work late.
i saw johnny in the street today wearing this, and i absolutely had to have him as my photo for today.
obviously heavily edited on photoshop for the dark background and mega contrast red, but hey who cares, time constraints are as time constraints go or something.

taken in my room

Lets get festive 8

canon eos 40d, tokina 12-24mm lens, two flashes, tripod

obviously a self portrait of me in my room looking moody whilst throwing a cracker in the air.
it took me so long to get it timed properly.
the wide angle makes me look like im standing on a slope and that my head is unusually big.
my shoes are too dirty, i need new ones.
the only reason this photo is festive is because of the cracker. fail

taken in my room

Lets get festive 7

canon eos 40d, tokina 12-24mm lens, sigma flash

joe and ellie in hats that they bought for themselves when they should have been buying presents for other people.
they are festive as you like though
i like how '1994 winter olympics' joes is

taken in my room

Lets get festive 6

canon eos 40d, tokina 12-24mm lens

a lady wearing a father christmas hat in waitrose today
its weird how many people ive seen about wearing them this year, like as proper hats.
maybe its just me but i never really noticed it before

taken in waitrose

Lets get festive 5

canon eos 40d, tokina 12-24mm lens

this guy sells his big issues outside superdrug in town
his outfits funny though because its like, hes gone the whole hog with the beard and the red trousers, but he missed out the easiest and most common part of the outfit, the hat.
but yeah, he was looking pretty festive

taken in bridport

Lets get festive 4

canon eos 40d, tokina 12-24mm lens, flash off to the left

quite a typical christmasy one today, its the candle that we have on our dining room table every year and it counts down the days as we burn it for the duration of dinner every evening.
usually it'll be the 18th and we'll still be on number 6 because we are disorganized like that, but this year we're doing unusually well

taken in my dining room

Lets get festive 3

canon eos 40d, tokina 12-24mm lens, sigma flash

this is a rushed description because keira only just reminded me that had to post a festive photo today
this is my door in my bedroom, its had this christmas hat on it for the past year and it has a print out regarding the discussion of audience theory in media studies on the left of it, ' we must get away from the habit of thinking ' what does the media do with people' and move towards thinking ' what do people do with the media' - James Halloran

taken in my room

Lets get festive 2

canon eos 40d, tokina 12-24mm lens, tripod

my living room at christmas.
our tree looks kind of skinny this year and dosent have a star or anything on the top.
i think i prefer taking photos inside at this time of year, because i literally froze my fingers off last night, it was fun though.

taken in my living room

Lets get festive 1

canon eos 40d, tokina 12-24mm lens, tripod

i will be taking one christmas themed photo every day for the next 11 days, finishing on christmas day itself, and this is the first installment.
i decided to do this because im not feeling very festive and if i have to take a picture of something festive everyday then i'll see alot of festive stuff and then i'll feel more festive.

taken in bridport town center

Tour with run, WALK!

canon eos 40d, tokina 12-24mm lens, sigma flash

ive been on tour with my band Battle For Paris and our friends run, WALK! from the 7th to the 13th of December, so yeah no posts because of that.
but that does mean that this is a bumper 20 odd photo rich bumper post to compensate, obviously containing a lot of photos taken during said tour, not all of them were taken by me, but most were.

taken all over the uk

Piggy bank

canon eos 40d, tokina 12-24mm lens, sigma flash

i emptied my piggy bank that ive been putting my change in this year, because i need some more money for christmas / going on tour tomorrow.
i found £54.18 altogether, i reckon its the best savings account ive ever had.

taken on my bedroom floor

Space suit

canon eos 40d, tokina 12-24mm lens, sigma flash

charlie in his homemade space suit with his woolworths made gun
im starting to really like using the 1/30 shutter speed to get more ambient light in when using flash

taken in my dining room