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Thank you.

I may actually do some live stuff soon; been thinking about it quite a bit lately.

 

After more than 21 years, we had our first family portraits taken upon request from my 70 year old mom. This is by far my favorite - I feel like it really captures our weird but awesome little family.

 

I was going through my pictures folders and saw a couple of pictures of my old car. I'm not especially into cars, to me they're just useful vehicles but even I have to admit that one car in particular I did love to bits. My dad gave me his 1992 Vauxhall Senator and this car was very special to me... I thought it looked very unique and the interior was lovely, black leather seats and my daughter loved the orange digital dashboard. This car was super! It handled beautifully and I never felt unsafe when driving it. Sadly it met its demise when an elderly lady ran a red traffic light, I saw her out the corner of my eye and his the brakes and turned, but she didn't see me and hit the Senator, bending the front chassis and writing it off - thankfully my daughter wasn't in the car at the time!

I thought I'd share some pictures of the old Senator, it was a great car and even I have to admit that I miss it even now. My little sister loved photographing it so I've always had lots of pictures It won't be to everyone's liking, but it really grew on me...!




And I'll throw this one in as this is the "member's" picture gallery

 

Totally loving that hairstyle you've got going there ^^ I had something similar when I was at secondary school!

 

This is a beautiful family portrait You all look very happy and like there was a good family joke going on there, or just a very happy family atmosphere! My brother is in professional photography, he's very good at it and shoots professional photographs for me. My profile picture was one taken by my brother two years ago when I was trying to take off as a singer.

 

Thank you. I got my hair from my Mother.

 

I was helping my friend a while back with her AP photography project and she sent me some of the pictures I’d helped her with. We used glow sticks and a flashlight to do the last three; not sure what she did with the camera to catch the light like this, but I thought it was cool. Credits to my friend for these.

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Just discovered my new refurbished laptop does this. Too cool.

 

I love those pictures, so bright and colourful for such a dark setting I've seen pictures like this before, always very beautiful. Your friend is very talented

 

Is this the sort of behavior you expect from this appliance?

 

Very cool indeed, you certainly won't lose yourself on the keyboard in the dark... Some days I write into the night but have to stop because I can't really see the keys on my keyboard anymore. Your laptop looks ideal!

 

It was a pleasant surprise.

 

I'm not sure I'd cope being without Lost if it wasn't for Baltasar. Ideal, of course, would be actually having both of them here... But there's still a months wait for that...

 

I see this outside Tesco

I asked oneday if I could take this for my instagram, they said yes.


You see this in Croydon, England.
Probably Kevin Bacon around the corner trying to sell me mobile phone coverage, IDK,


This guitar turned out to be the guy from The Clash, and sold for £8k.
...
I never caught the guy while it was open for some reason but saw this every night working in Soho.
Mmmmm... I just took a snapshot of it because it's a Travis Bean and it caught my attention because it's a Travis Bean, I don't even know if I've ever seen one before (probably not), but here it was, in this window, without a price, for half a year at least.



Window shopping...
I haven't actually bought any of my guitars from here yet, but, back then especially, they had these used beauties from different cooler years, this was window porn.



Croydon.

This is like, two porcelain squirrels and pills.
One's got a rifle up to the other.
This was commissioned.
This is also like/my hometown in South London.

 

UK EU Referendum Day; someone knocked on my front door and woke me up and asked me if I was going to vote doing a poll, it was also raining that day.
Thornton Heath, June 23rd 2016.


This was the first time I saw Westminister since the vote of Brexit taken the 26th of June 2016.
Reminded me of Edvard Munch's The Scream

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There really was an ere of gloom in the air, that was somehow, someway was able to be captured in snapshots.

Lasted about a week; but back then, it was a real shock, real sorrow at leaving the EU; see, London voted to remain.


Walking with my friend from Vauxhaull to Victoria that day celebrating Black Pride 2016 in London and going to the train station/calm walk.

 

Ah, Victoria! Those were the days. I spent a lot of time up there going to and from the Coach Station to Coventry. Had to walk from Vauxhall a couple of times, when the bus turfed everyone off. I missed a coach once cos of that. I wasn't best pleased.

 

I remember I came back from Stoke-on-Trent via Birmingham and, fell asleep on the coach. I got to Birmingham at 6 or 7 pm and hated that everything was closed there, so I cut my time there short and spent half hour there rather than my intended hour and a half and caught the first thing going to London... I woke up around midnight as the coach was going down Victoria Street and, I don't know about anyone else on the coach that day, but I knew where I was, and, so, I woke up, got ready as my coach was winding back to the station and timed it well so as the coach pulled in, I was standing by the door lol with all my things ready to depart... I mean, I was getting my things together as other people looked all settled in; in fact, I did the odd thing of standing up and getting ready (I knew exactly where I was when woke up) - London was also the final destination anyway, so these people were all getting off there anyway...
The things I remember waking up on the coach that night was; going down Victoria Street, looking at what time it was, and seeing things open! (Something I'm used to, but, since Birmingham was a bust, something I appreciated)...
I got the last train back to West Norwood and took a bus up the hill to Crown Point where I was living at the time. I remember going through West Norwood past midnight thinking... It looks like Birmingham only everything's open, so, not like Birmingham.
To this day, Birmingham/Digbeth reminds me of West Norwood only it's a Ghost Town past 6 pm, and when you're 'that far out', anything reminding you of West Norwood/home is a good thing; only... Everything was closed, and this was in the middle of summer, so the sun was still out and everything, it was weird.

Bournemouth... Once closed on me at 7 pm and was a ghost town there too gone 7 pm and... I took the train back and, got back to Thornton Heath (where I live now), around midnight, and, was happy on my short walk from the train station to mine, to see everything still open here (as it probably should be).

 

I've been through Coventry on the same coach going to and from Stratford-upon-Avon from London (Victoria Coach Station).

I saw Buckinghamshire, I think, coming back from Stoke-on-Trent the second time I went to Stoke-on-Trent a week later (with all of my friends, like 7 of us all in all)... Was when I was a awake seeing England from a coach, me and my friend my first ex gf at the time got off the coach near her house Wood Green way just off the North Circular in Palmers Green, and the rest of my friends from Croydon/Sutton, that way.. Took the coach back to Victoria via Golders Green and told me they never knew how far I went, but, to me, London is London; like, my playground I roll around in.
I passed through Buckinghamshire, England, looked pretty, got to see other places too, like Leamington Spa too that day.

 

Contrast between rough wall and visually smooth lady is good even that skin looks a bit too photoshopped.

Composition is exellent.

Light & shadows are ok.

I like the tones.

Both eyes capture attention - but in the different way.

There is some "Hasselblad, FP4 & slightly toned fine art paper" feeling.

 

My fridge circa 28th of November 2018

 

You have terrible taste in beer.

 

I thank you for having the courage to say, what I was thinking. Kudos.

 

Kirin Ichiban anyone?

 

Cute!!!