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I have a big “thank you” to say to a gen­tle­man named Chris Cope. He runs a web­site that’s just recently star­ted up — only this week in fact — ded­ic­ated to the music scene in Scot­land. Bands on tour here, new tal­ent and so on. As a journ­al­ist who’s worked for a num­ber of dif­fer­ent music pub­lic­a­tions before he knows his stuff, and the way everything is going to be organ­ised looks very interesting.

The best bit though is his taste in pho­to­graphy. I know this, because he’s fea­tured me as the first pho­to­grapher in his “Photo Fri­day” fea­ture! I’m thrilled to bits by this, par­tic­u­larly as I’m well away from most estab­lished ven­ues down in the south of Scot­land — if I were to be hon­est, I would have never thought to look around for gig pho­to­graph­ers in Inverness. Glas­gow, Edin­burgh, at a push Aber­deen, but def­in­itely not Inverness.

Once again, thank you!

Go check out the site guys — it’s The Daily Dose, and you can get dir­ectly to my little fea­ture right here.


New Lens!

Signs at the BeachSo, I got me a new lens today, the Tam­ron 10-24mm. Been look­ing for a much wider-angle for a while now as a kind-of “walk-around” lens. I reckon it could be pretty good fun to use, and it’ll def­in­itely be handy for Fort Wil­liam next year.

First thoughts? Well, it’s bet­ter built than my Sigma lenses I can tell you that. Feels really nice to use, and although you do need to stop it down a little bit to get the best from it (as with many zooms, to be fair) you can get some very clear and sharp images. I’m now des­per­ately try­ing to find any excuse to get out and use it…


Light Trails Experiment

Again, I was get­ting some weird looks the other night. This shot was taken in near pitch dark­ness, with only the street­lamp to the right provid­ing a contsant source of light.

Damn, I’m get­ting bored with not hav­ing any decent gigs just now. Not much going on in my area just now, and I think I’m stuck in a bit of a pho­to­graphic rut at the moment. I’m think­ing it’s time for a new lens…


The Wanderer

Well, I was a little bored this even­ing. Even though I “don’t do land­scapes” I decided to go out while the sun was set­ting and see if I could cap­ture any­thing inter­est­ing. Well, I kinda achieved that one.

I wandered towards the Links and for whatever reason I landed up tak­ing loads of pic­tures of elec­tri­city pylons. For once they actu­ally looked pho­to­genic — nor­mally I go into eco-warrior mode and rant about them ruin­ing Mother Nature’s hard work; same thing hap­pens with wind farms too. I must have looked prop­erly weird to passersby.

Any­way, here’s one of them. There’s a few more shots on my Flickr pho­to­stream as well.


Hello world!

dsc00698_lzn_watermarkWell hello. This is offi­cially my first post on my new, Word­Press powered website/portfolio/blog thin­gym­a­bob. Even­tu­ally, this will serve as a port­fo­lio of my pho­to­graphic work and will also likely have some of my longer ram­blings which won’t fit on Twit­ter, and maybe some other cool things.

In the mean­time, while I get my act together, why not check out my Flickr pho­to­stream, or per­haps fol­low me on Twit­ter @thomasbisset