Tom Covers

My mate Zombizi gave me this link which in turn links to covers of Tom Waits songs.  Which I'll get time to listen to in the next few days. 

In The Mood

I'm re-reading The Jewel in the Crown.  I liked the bit where Daphne and Hari dance to this tune. 

Merry Christmas...

...to all our readers!  Well, the three of yous. 

George Square December 2009

George Sq December 2009, originally uploaded by Pig Sty Avenue.

This was a roll of Agfa Precisa 100iso (given to me by my mate Oli), developed in tetenal chemicals for 5.25mins, (so it was really pushed, the standard time is 3.15mins). It was at 1/25sec, f2.8. I'm saying it was pushed to 1600iso, but that's guesswork because the FED2, of course, has no kind of meter.

And the FED2, btw, is becoming the top-dog camera. I think I might be able to flog off all the rest and hang to it and the Holga, and be contented. I can collect LTM lenses. And now that I've got a 40.5<52mm filter adaptor, there'll be no stopping me. Except not having enough time, that's stopping me.

The Smoke of Hell!

A Return To The Land

I've got a new allotment, on a site which is itself only two years old, carved out of the side of a hill.  My plot, somebody tried to work it, but soon gave up, so it's never been gardened.  I'm reckoning a year or two to make it presentable.  An awful lot of rocks to shift, and drainage ditches to dig, and raised beds to build.  There was a big hare resting there yesterday - the secretary of the allotment association told me that s/he's become kind-of a mascot. 

Michael Wolf 100x100

I don't like the lighting, but the idea's great.