Simon's Mini

This is basically the reason why I was taking pictures tonight, it may have been freezing, it may have been dark and my car may have blown up from overheating when running so the lights could stay on, but I told Simon I would get some shots and what better time to get them than in the snow, which comes in Basingstoke very rarely and it seemed a shame to waste the chance.

This is actually only the second time I've used flashes on pictures of cars, the first time was when I first got my Jetta, the results were ok, but I'm more happy with these ones, the use of Bevell's lights and car headlights helped a fair bit.

Simon's Mini a very nice machine, and it's also more capable of supplying enough power to run the light than my car so I could take some pictures of Bevell's Rado.

It was just by chance that Bevell decided to bring his Rado out with his light to get some pictures, which are shown below.

Anyway, here are a couple of my favourites of Simon's Mini.

Bevell's Rado

Recently, my good friend Jonny Bevell got a new VR6 Corrado, he may have spent his his savings on it, it also might be still on stilts, but my god is it fast, very comfy, has basically automated everything and he is spending a fair few quid on it. That's right, he's not doing what everyone else is doing/does (spending as little as possible on making the car what they want), no.....he is buying all the top of the range stuff and making it a 'B Machine', as usual, the stinking well off turd.

Anyway, here is some pictures, shame it's basically a shopping trolley.

Jack 'Sparrow' Ford

This is my good friend Sparrow, who I take pictures of fairly often to be honest, as when you hang out with someone whenever they're out, it kinda happens like that.

In fact, earlier on in this blog I took some pictures of him jumping his car, which can be found here.

But enough about that, more about these pictures, I took these on a 'moist' night at the park, as, in the current weather conditions, this seems to be the best we get, 'damp with puddles' not cool, but, we make the most of it to say the least.

It was a complete coincidence I saw Sparrow at the park this night as I text some people, but all of them were on duty, and Sparrow was the only one who didn't reply, so I decided to take a trip to the park anyway to see who as down there and if there was any photo opportunities, as I was going a bit cold turkey with the old camera.

I got down there, Sparrow was there, and he hadn't looked at his phone in a while and was also surprised to run into me, so I took a few shots of him, which made a change, as I think these are the only BMX shots I've shot in about 2 months, which is too long, and I hope for that to change when I get my new lenses, which are coming soon :).

But enough about my camera habits, here is my favourite picture of Sparrow I took that night, happy viewing and stay tuned for new posts when the weather clears up.

Hanging Post

There's a hanging post on the outskirts of Basingstoke, to be honest, it's effort to get to.

But when your sitting in leisure park car park on a friday or saturday night with no money and nothing to do, and it is foggy and dark, apparently a hanging post and creepy churches seem a good idea.

After stupid amounts of driving around in basically a big circle down bumpy country roads in a very low van and Sparrow's mk3 Golf estate, we finally climbed a very steep hill to find ourselves at the bottom of a dirt track that led to the hanging post.

We got out the cars/van with torches and my camera, and walked up the dirty, puddly, wet track and finally got to the top where the hanging post was, I think the worst thing was it was graffitied with penis' and 'tags', but never the less, to stand next to it and think people were genuinely hung there was kinda weird to say the least. I think it would've been a perfect photo opportunity if it was a clear night, as it over-looked the whole of Basingstoke which was pretty awesome, but unfortunately it was misty/foggy so you couldn't see much.

Either way I took a picture of the hanging post, so here it is, and underneath is a picture of Sam driving his van after my lens got very condensed and misty, but I kinda liked it in a weird way, so enjoy!

Time Off

I had a few days off recently, so there really should've been time to update this thing, but I didn't.

In fact, I haven't even thought about it until now, but truth being, there's nothing to post really, due to crappy rainy weather.

But I'm going to attempt to anyway, with what material I haven't posted, so to keep you occupied while I'm doing this, here's a picture of Tommy Bruza singing his heart out on Guitar Hero.....enjoy.

UPDATES COMING

Well.......

weather sucks, money sucks, not great situation at the moment, but who could royally give a fuck?

earlier this week i took a mosey down to the stay fit premiere in southampton, kindly hosted by the good men at pijin at the very accommodating orange rooms, which with very comfy seats, a projector and £1.60 for a glass of coke seemed very comforting.

The bad thing about this was that it made me want to watch every bmx video i could lay my hands on, and its just making me upset that the weather is shit and all i wanna do is take some fucking pictures, but on the plus side, it also made me find this video which is of my very good friend James 'Bruza' Ivett, so props to him! and it can prove that basingstoke can be sunny! so bring it back so i can update this blog with something other than my useless ramblings!

ross is out! x

Billy Talent

WAS AWEESOOMMMEEEE

from getting dead legs and bruises from Cancer Bats (2nd support) and flooring the first person that came into contact with my flailing arm. Also Canterbury (1st support), who are from Basingstoke and whose album is up for free download here.

Once it got to Billy Talent I pushed my way down to the front by the second song, and got pushed up against the barrier and getting a massive bruise across my chest and getting ridiculously sweaty and probably losing about 5 gallons of body fluid.

Anyway, it was so fun, one of the best gigs I have ever been to and I can't wait for the next tour!

YOOOOOOO!

Just had one of the sickest weeks, tuesday night was go-karting with work, all paid for :) where we won! followed by seeing a friend very drunk and a creepy man coming on to one of my male bosses.

Then Wednesday, I spent the whole day at thorpe park for fright night with my good friend Johnny Gould, where it was stupidly quiet so we got to do EVERY ride at least twice and did all the fright night mazes which were awesome and amazingly scary, and I got to see Gould shoulder barge an old lady into a face plant.

Following this I went to see Fantastic Mr. Fox with a couple of friends on friday, and weirdly that turned out to be a pretty good night too :) and today my lovely sister cooked me a beautiful meal and I had a nice relaxing day with her and her amazing dog called Maisy.

Then this week I'm seeing Billy Talent on thursday :D followed by pay day on friday where I'm booking my Estonia tickets for Simpel Session! Can't wait for that either, and to top the weekend off we're all going out for halloween into town for my good friend Richard Eastwood's birthday where I can actually have a good time out after being paid, and another Sunday off to enjoy a recovery day, so all in all, a pretty eventful week, hopefully followed by another.

Peace out world.

x

(p.s. - enjoy this picture of my work go-karting night with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place on the podium)

Budget Jam 2009 Pictures

After reading the issue in this months ride, written by Dunc, I remembered I still haven't put up my pictures I took from Budget Jam, so here are my top 10, as I'm not uploading all of them, mainly because....
1. It'll take ages,
2. I have no where to put them
and 3. They weren't great

so here are my favourites, and the write up I wrote can be found here.
Enjoy.

Self Portrait

I've been trying to work out my flashes with my photography in a while, and as my tattoo got finished today (by Alex Simpson at Poison Ink), I thought I'd do a self portrait to try out some flash photography.......and to show off my new tattoo because I'm really pleased with it, so here it is.

Rain..........

.............absolutely sucks, all I wanna do is take some bloody photo's and all that happens recently is rain, rain, rain AND MORE RAIN, it aint cool.

Hopefully it dries up for No Rice on wednesday, which coincidentally is also the day I am getting my tattoo finished, so I'll take a picture of that too :)

On the plus side for Gould's birthday on Saturday we went to the big LDN which was a laugh, good fun it was, then to come back to go out on B-Stokey town, drink wayyyyy too much and sorting out a dance off in Liquid, then waking up after 6 hours of sleep with no hangover....times like these make me happy, even with the shocking weather.

Either way, I hate not being able to do something when you want to, so I'll leave you with this picture of a nice day so whoever looks at this and thinks the same as me, it'll give them some hope that tomorrow will be a better day.

Peace out.

Edition 38 Pics

After getting some photo's published, which I am still over the moon about, I've chosen my top 20 pics I took and decided to put them up here............so enjoy.

My full write up on E38 can be found here.

First Published Photos!!!

So stoked today, got home from work and this months PVW was waiting for me, I knew the E38 article was in it, and after I sent my pictures off to them, I wondered if they liked them, after reading the article and recognizing some pictures I was wondering if they used them, then flicking back I looked at where they say where the pictures were from, to see my name!!! I was so happy, after looking through the article a couple of times, I think they used about 10-15 of my photos, I can't really be bothered to compare, as I'd imagine it would be fairly painstaking to do that. The article is 9 pages long, so there is a fair few pictures!
I'm just super happy that they looked at my photos, let alone using them.
Here's some pictures of the magazine, which is also a really good issue so if you are into your VW's then I would say you should buy it :)

Craig Taylor

Now here's a boy a haven't seen in a long time, I used to take loads of pictures of Craig when I started photography, he's a bit of a 'picture whore', but I haven't seen him on a bike in ages.......

But even though that is the case, when he gets back on, he's never afraid to bust out a dialed invert or lookback as this picture will entail.

Tommmmmmy Bruza

I wrote a little about Tom earlier in my blog, but I haven't taken riding pictures of him in a while, when he asked me to take this shot he said he had landed a couple, I'd never even seen him try it, so I set up, and BAM first try, smooth, to pedals. But he wanted a different angle, so I took another, so here's 2 pictures for you, because I'm nice like that.