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Let it snow (part 2)…

20/01/201308/04/2015 By shendyNo Comments

On Saturday evening I went back over to Royal Victoria Park to see how it looked at night. It was fairly interesting, but the difficulty was actually that it was so light - it needed a bit of work to get the images looking like they were taken at night! I also had to remove a very substantial orange cast from the street lights. I'm quite pleased with them. ...

Let it snow (part 1)…

20/01/201308/04/2015 By shendyNo Comments

As you all knew I would, I have been out and about photographing the snow - we had about 3 inches, although other bits of Bristol apparently had 6. Not sure how that works... On Friday the buses were buggered (as they always are when we get a couple of millimetres of snow) so I was working from home - the joys of being able to connect to my work PC from my laptop. Due to a lack of pre-planning I had to go into Westbury-on-Trym to get some food, so took the opportunity to take the camera out. The first couple are from the back garden, then some from Royal Victoria Park. After that, I wandered round Canford Cemetery and Canford Park. ...

Concorde

19/09/201008/04/2015 By shendyNo Comments

On Friday we went to have a look at Concorde at Filton - hurry if you want to go and see it, as it closes at the end of the month and there is no guarantee that it will ever re-open. A fantastic looking aircraft, and a friend of our neighbour designed bits of it - he worked on the air intakes (surprisingly important) and the wings. He was in a BBC documentary a few years ago, and they showed him stood underneath pointing at bits going "I did that bit, and that, and that..." ...

More Flinty Red

18/09/201008/04/2015 By shendyNo Comments

Flinty Red asked me in recently to take some shots in the kitchen for them to use to publicise their Outside Catering service. Some Creme Brulees (or should that be Cremes Brulee?) in the foreground, with Max the (temporary) chef in the background. Crostini, ready to be loaded up with Marsala-cooked onions on Ricotta. This was actually the (really nice) staff dinner - pork, beans, herbs and some of the Marsala onions. Onglet with courgettes. I think the yellow ones came from Matt the chef's own garden. Fresh haloumi cheese I had an email yesterday from someone at the BBC (yes, that BBC), asking for photos of Flinty Red to use in one of their food magazines. Coo!...

Flinty Red

14/05/201027/06/2011 By shendyNo Comments

Forgot to post this lot. I've been developing the website for Flinty Red, the restaurant opened by wine merchants Dominic and Rachel from Corks of Cotham and chefs Matt and Claire (formerly of the Lido and QV), and went along in January to take photos for it. I started with an exterior, based on the shot of the Corks frontage that the late Pete Chinn did for them - you can see the final cropped version on the "how to find us" page of the website. It was an ideal opportunity to take the photo as the Indian restaurant over the road was closed for refurbishment, and the neon lights in their window reflected in Flinty Red's - it was impossible to get a shot without a garish purple reflection somewhere. We then moved on to an interior shot, which took several goes to get the waitress blurred but still visible. Really pleased with this one, which appears on the front page of the...