Cameras
Nikon FE
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been photographing my collection of cameras. They’re now in their own gallery and each image here is linked to the camera that took it – click on an image and you’ll find the …
Sputnik
Sputnik
On Wednesday my latest eBay purchase finally arrived from the Ukraine – A LOMO Sputnik stereo TLR. It’s basically two Lubitels fused together – a Bakelite monstrosity with all the light leaks, shiny internal surfaces and dodgy engineering familiar to …
Glowsticks
Volution - Model: <a href="http://mcaleavy.org/models/quinn/">Quinn</a>
I shot Kirsty recently using glowsticks and glow-bracelets to create swirls of light. All you have to do is break the glass phial inside them to set them aglow. With the glowsticks that’s quite easy – just snap them – …
Univers d’Artistes
I’ve just had the pleasure of being interviewed for Univers d’Artistes, the blog of Carrie Leigh’s NUDE magazine. Univers d’Artistes interview A big hello to everyone who has found my site from there.
Pole
Very occasionally I get the chance to shoot an image that has been rattling around in the dark recesses of my brain for ages. In this case I really wanted to take a long-exposure shot of a pole-dancer spinning round …
Electric
Electric - <a href="http://mcaleavy.org/projects/audiogram/">Music</a>
When I first got hold of some electroluminescent wire I wanted to use it for a guitar shot. It took me a while to get around to it, and when I did I discovered that stringing a guitar with EL …
Nottingham
I’m going to be working in Nottingham for the next couple of weeks if I can get there through the snow tomorrow. So I’ll be spending my evenings in a hotel room with no internet access, which should at least …
Tutu
Recalcitrance
Chrissie arrived in Glasgow for a weekend of shoots with this gloriously mad black and red tutu in tow. Over the weekend she also shot with McInnes, Monkeytwizzle and Simon Pole, and everyone got to shoot the tutu. This is …
ZZ Top
Tres Hombres
One of the greatest disappointments of my musical life was the day I bought the ZZ Top album Tres Hombres on CD. What I heard on that disc wasn’t really the same album that was released on vinyl; it had …
Browsers
I seem to have fixed my rendering problems with IE6, but for some reason I can’t get my embedded Animoto video to show in that browser. Grumble. One interesting statistic from Google Analytics is that Firefox is by far the …