Adam Tinworth

Everything in the gardens is…

 

Visited Arundel Castle yesterday, but photography and video is strictly banned within the castle itself. So, I contented myself with some video of the rather stunning gardens…

Red Arrows over Bristol

I shot this on my iPhone a couple of weeks ago, but help off posting it because of the tragedy of last weekend. But the more I thought about it, the more I realised that these guys work very hard to show their skill, and to entertain. And that Sunday they did both, both for the people at the Balloon Fiesta, and for people all over southern Bristol who could see their display. And death shouldn't prevent us celebrating the skills of life.

 

Ah, Princess...

via superpunch.blogspot.com

Ah, Princess from Battle of the Planets. One of my earliest crushes before (a) I knew what a crush was and (b) realised that it was a bit weird having a crush on a cartoon character.

Some great posters from classic kids' stuff on that site...

[via Mr Whatley]

OK Muppets, Go

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Joy.

Promoting this, which is great.

Sharing your photos with posterity #1

via www.youtube.com

Intriguing idea. I have a whole bunch of family photos - probably three generations worth - to scan and share. This looks like one place to start.

Saturday's fine for Shoreham flying

Despite the dire warnings of rain and general unpleasantness, today dawned bright and fine in Shoreham-by-Sea, which must have been a great relief to the organisers of the airshow. Sadly, we were too busy to attend this year, but we were treated to a free show as we walked from the Beach over to the town this afternoon:

 Sorry for the very amateur hour footage. Pointing a small caera at the sky and getting decent results is harder than I imagined… My respect for my FlightGlobal colleagues goes up. 

 

A small pleasure of Lion

Much like Circles in Google+, I'm having slightly too much fun with creating names for folders in Lion's launchpad app

Liberalism, business and success

Every single person who'd attack Steve Jobs on any of these grounds is, demonstrably, worse at business than Jobs. They're unqualified to assert that liberal values are bad for business, when the demonstrable, factual, obvious evidence contradicts those assertions.

It's a choice whether you, or anyone else, wants to accept the falsehood that liberal values are somehow in contradiction with business success at a global scale. Indeed, it would seem that many who claim to be pro-business are trying to "save" us from exactly the inclusive, creative, tolerant values that have made America's most successful company possible.

via dashes.com

In America, the right are trying to make out that left-wing values are incompatible with business.

In Britain, the left are trying to make out that business is incompatible with left wing-values.

And people wonder why I hold so many politicians from all sides of the fence in contempt.

On the rise of camera phones, and photo apps

Teru Kuwayama, a photojournalist, disagrees: “You could make an analogy to the advent of the electric guitar or electronic music. Much to the annoyance of classical musicians, those things made ‘everyone’ a musician. I grew up on punk rock, hip hop and death metal, so I welcome the post-classical age of photography, and the explosion of amateur expression that comes with it.

“Obviously, it sucks to be a professional photographer, and it's personally inconvenient to lose your pedestal and your livelihood to a $2 app, but that doesn't mean it's a bad thing for photography.”

via www.telegraph.co.uk

And just like with music, I'm sure we'll see new forms of photography emerging, because the technology for capturing AND sharing has become ever more accessible.

Sod's Law at work