I'm Mark (33/m/uk) and this is just a bunch of stuff.
Sheffield from Above (via !!steffstef)
During first year at Sheffield University, a friend and I got up to the 18th floor of the Arts Tower, where this photo was taken from, at around 8pm. She had a philosophy class on the 12th floor and was dropping off an assignment and we decided to see how high we could get. This photo reminds me of that.
My tribute to Running From Camera, which I found a few months ago and still love.
The basic premise is “I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can.”
I just got a new camera and it’s the first one I’ve had with a 2-second timer. I realised it had this feature this evening. Two minutes later, I took this photo.
Last month, at Download, one of the highlights of the entire weekend was finding this food stall that served French food. It was known around the festival as “The French Food place”. It’s official name was La Grande Bouffe and, to people more familiar with music festivals than I am, it’s already well-respected.
They basically served gratin variations and the nicest sausages in the world. One of the best parts is that they cook their food in these huge pans right in front of you:
I know that you have to take the “this is the first real food that we’ve eaten in four days” factor but, honestly, this was the nicest food that I’ve had for a long, long time. If it wasn’t for the fact that I knew I had to leave room for more beer, I would have moved my tent outside their stall.
Anyway, last night I started craving it, so today I made it for dinner. I went shopping after work, bought everything that I needed and 45 minutes ago (9pm), it was ready:
Hopefully, it looks close enough to give some of my buddies flashbacks. I’ll be honest, it wasn’t as nice as the festival food, but it was pretty good and will definitely be made again.
Also, anyone with access to a Marks & Spencer needs to get down there tomorrow and buy a pack of their Aberdeen Angus sausages, because OH MY GOD!
I was messing around with Canon’s PhotoStitch program tonight after I noticed that a couple of a friend’s photographs, which were taken a few minutes apart, looked like they could be stitched together.
I like the result. There was a big difference in the brightness/contrast of the two photos, which I matched the best I could, and there was smoke in one of them, so you can easily see the seam, but I like it.
(Photos sticky-fingered from Ali)
If you took a picture of the sun at the same time each day, would it remain in the same position? The answer is no, and the shape traced out by the sun over the course of a year is called an analemma. The sun’s apparent shift is caused by the Earth’s motion around the sun when combined with the tilt of the Earth’s rotation axis. The sun will appear at its highest point of the analemma during summer and at its lowest during winter. Analemmas created from different Earth latitudes would appear at least slightly different, as well as analemmas created at a different time each day. The analemma pictured here was built up by sun photographs taken from August 1998 through August 1999 from Ukraine.
(Via riotrepublic)
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