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Don't be fooled by the bad ass expression and pose Hugo is giving me here. He was a really cool guy who was more than willing to give up a bit of his time to allow us to take a portrait of him.
He was the second of 32 encounters we had at the Bikeshed 2019 London exhibition in Tobacco Dock. Hugo is from Portugal and he and his Friend Thiago (portrait to come) drove down in a van to this exhibition in East london. They ended up buying 2 bikes, a Ducatti and a Triumph resulting in a triumphant trip (see what I did there!) to this wonderful exhibition.
Lightingwise we used a hard Godox AD200 flash from camera right on this portrait. Peter, aka Urban Scot, very kindly did the honours of holding the flash. I matched this lighting and location with the colour grade in post processing to give it a more stylised effect.
On a side note, Coming to exhibitions just for stranger photography for the purposes of this project can be misused just to rack up the numbers. As a result in this kind of situation I tend to group the portraits together (e.g. if I photograph 2 friends I treat it as 1 encounter and number it A and B). In this case I will be sharing Thiago's portrait later and will be numbering it 181B.
I took 2 other portraits at the exhibition and toyed with the idea of grouping all of the portraits from the day. However, each one was unique in that they were very different lighting set up and therefore I am happy to treat them separately.
Anyway, Thanks very much Hugo for this portrait. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the
100 Strangers Flickr Group Page
Connect with me on instagram where my handle is @arnabkghosal
or visit my website
As always constructive criticism is appreciated.
Incredible day with some beautiful machines, fast racing and great people.
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Olympus OM-D E-M5
Panasonic 25mm f1.4
Olympus 40-150mm
The Bikeshed Motoshow is an annual event that happens every year in East London and although I am not a biker myself, I love the vibe there. Espcially as my good friend and fellow street portrait photographer @UrbanScot was also there.
I did manage to get a few portraits there with this one of Austin being one of them. He had just moved over from Sydney and was having a ball living out in Shoreditch.
From a technical point of view, I am usually terrible at getting straight pictures but am usually happy to leave enough room so I can adjust in post just in case. However, by doing it in this shot it seemed to lose a bit of it's energy, so the slight of angle framing is where I left it.
Thanks Austin for allowing me a portrait and I hope you enjoyed the show.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the
100 Strangers Flickr Group Page
Connect with me on instagram where my handle is @arnabkghosal
or visit my website
Fore Street is arguably the most interesting and eccentric street in Exeter. From the top, on a sunny day, there is a tremendous view down the street and across the Exe valley towards the Haldon Hills. Once it was full of grocery stores, butchers and bakeries, along with hat and clothes shops, two cinemas and two churches and a mission hall. Now there is a plethora of fast food outlets, boutiques, a small department store, a fancy dress shop, a tattooist, a used book shop, another selling used CDs and DVDs, two printers and three or four outdoor pursuit shops.
I'm a big orange fan, so the detail on this bike appealed to me quite a bit. Processing these photos has been fun, and I've realised a lot of these are an interesting exercise in cropping: just enough to give context, but you don't need to show the whole bike to get the point across.
I will say, editing these photos has made me miss the tiny 35mm f/1.4 Fuji lens. Although I leant too heavily on the wide aperture at times, the quality of the DoF was just 👌 and it was a tiny lens. I've been looking for an equivalent 50mm for the Sony, but they're all just stonkyingly huge.
Tour of Cambridge 2016
An authentic Gran Fondo is a mass participation cycle sport competition organised like a bike race at the front and a leisure ride at the back.
Friday :) Had a good work day, and decided to go and collect my new glasses this afternoon - which meant catching the train into That London - again. (I'd popped in to see if they were ready on Wednesday, which they weren't - then of course got a text on Thursday morning to ask me to come and collect them - typical.)
Spotted this very apocalyptic looking bike shed at Blackheath station on the way home. There are a couple of bikes that are completely covered by vines (two racks right of centre - you can just see a little flash of the white saddle) - as well as a couple of more newly-parked ones. It doesn't take long for nature to take over....
Back home for another couple of hours' work, then packed up for the weekend. Watched the Italy/Belgium game this evening - exciting stuff (with a fair bit of Italian dramatics towards the end).
The bikeshed annual motorbike show was wonderful and had lots of people I wanted to take portraits of. Samik was one such guy who is a fellow Bengali. He was just a few days into his trip to the UK and Ireland and kindly allowed me to take a few shots.
Thanks Samik for your time and I hope you enjoyed the show as much as I did
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the
100 Strangers Flickr Group Page
Connect with me on Instagram where my handle is @arnabkghosal
or visit my website
TGIF " Back to School Party"
Hey Everyone, the club will look amazing all decorated in the theme of Back to School , for you to come on over to and have some fun, and we know how you like to dress up in your naughtier outfits , so remind us of who and how you were at school or college, you're sure to have a great time!!
Julia, CoNoR & Fredy back to back, and a guest DJ will be bringing the music. So get ready for a night of fun.
Starting at 10am SL Time ) We know you don't want to miss this one !
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|| A.S. Neills Summerhill || Summerhhill School || Foreword-Erich Fromm-(1960a-e) First published in: A. S. Neill, Summerhill - A Radical Approach to Child Rearing, New York - PDF ||
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Triangel = Body, mind and soul || The picture was created before I saw the picture Spirit of new generation !!
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Comment and additions by cocoesperanza:
♫ Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall Official ♫
Lyrics
You, Yes You, Stand Still Laddie!
When we grew up and went to school, there were certain teachers who would hurt the children anyway they could
by pouring their derision upon anything we did
exposing every weakness however carefully hidden by the kids.
But in the town it was well known that when they got home at night
their fat and psychopathic wives
Would thrash them within inches of their lives!
ooooooooooooo, oooooooo, ooooooooooo, ooooooooo, ooooooooo, ooooooooo,oooo.
We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
(A bunch of kids singing) We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teacher! Leave us kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
Spoken:
"Wrong, Guess again!
Wrong, Guess again!
If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding.
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?
You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddie!"
[Sound of many TV's coming on, all on different channels]
"The Bulls are already out there"
Pink: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgh!"
"This Roman Meal bakery thought you'd like to know."
I don't need no arms around me
And I dont need no drugs to calm me.
I have seen the writing on the wall.
Don't think I need anything at all.
No! Don't think I'll need anything at all.
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.
All in all you were all just bricks in the wall.
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Thanks coco, for your cooperation !!!
I loved the colour, and the shape of this bike. It's a nicely simple shape that had its own vibe, vaguely video-game-robotic.
We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
"Wrong, Do it again!"
"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you
have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"
"You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!"
~ Pink Floyd
Tiago was Hugo's friend who also came from Lisbon by van to Bikeshed 2019 and went back with a bike too.
When they said to me that they were builders I thought they meant of the bricks and mortar variety. Turns out that I got completely the wrong end of the stick and they actually build bikes.
This was also shot using a Godox AD200 with a reflector dish which Peter kindly held for me camera left. This was then edited in Capture 1 and Photoshop.
Thanks Tiago for allowing me to take your portrait. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the
100 Strangers Flickr Group Page
Connect with me on instagram where my handle is @arnabkghosal
or visit my website
As always constructive criticism is appreciated.
Another shot from the 2019 Bike Shed show in London. It was quite dark, and so I shot wide open, but up close to all the bikes it means most of the pictures are just a blurry mess. This would could have done with a smidge more DoF on the bike, but I like how the punters are there giving the bike context without being a distraction in detail.
Dumped on day 5th day of Christmas.
Five gold rings, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree.
LR3741
Our back garden during a surprise early snow fall. Westward view from the house terrace in late November.
The sky really was gloomy like this of course, so I didn't try brightening the exposure when editing this image. The gloom also makes this seem like a monochrome image but the green compost bag under the bench is the giveaway. The grey and white blobs really are snowflakes.
This is almost the same view as the summer one which of course shows the plant details better. Usually, if we get snow in London, it's in January-February. It's usually light and doesn't stay long. This was one of the earliest significant falls of snow in the London region that most people could remember for a long time, and we thought it was going to herald a long hard winter - and of course, a white Christmas. In fact, although the snowy weather lasted a few weeks, it had gone just before Christmas, and did not return during the winter proper. In contrast, exactly a year on, we are currently having a relatively mild (and very dry) autumn. Although snow covers many of the details here, I've still noted them on the picture and in the list below, so that comparison can be made with other photos in the set.
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NOTE ON THE GARDEN
The garden was very plain and bare when we arrived in 1985. We have been developing the design gradually since then, but not from a single pre-planned conception. Eventually we developed the overall shape, with a 'winding river' effect made by the lawns and path (though isn't really clear in this particular view). The shapes of the rockeries, planting and other features are based on the way a small stream winds between 'interlocking spurs' in hilly terrain. We did all the planting, and I built many of the features. For further history of our garden, see set description for BACK GARDEN: www.flickr.com/photos/brize/sets/72157619611607384/with/4...
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GARDEN DETAILS
Features
- Arbour - centre R, only slat-roof visible, assembled from flat-pack.
- Bike shed - far L, assembled by supplier.
- Border - nearest planting, centre R, mostly flowering shrubs.
- House Terrace (patio) - foreground, made of rough green and pink concrete slabs set in 'chequer-board' pattern, with container plants. This was here before we came and we plan to re-landscape it.
- Lower Rockery and mixed shrub border - R centre, but hidden behind plants in containers in this view.
- Path - centre (not visible under the snow) made of reclaimed York stone laid in 'crazy' style by local landscaper, late Mr. Rogers, to our own winding design, shortly after we arrived in 1985.
- Teak bench - from redundant disposal by Natural History Museum, London ("Rosen Wanted"), lower L, foreground.
- Temple of Juno garden shed - centre L, with shingled roof and white columns supporting portico, built by me in sections out of reclaimed timber ("Rosen Wanted") at a previous house, brought here and extended with portico. I made the columns made from a flag pole. Steve Cruse (joiner) hung the doors (architectural salvage) and put on the cladding.
- Tree stump sculpture by our niece, Alison Breadon née Jones.
- Upper Rockery (Railway Rockery) - centre, planted with alpines, dwarf shrubs and trees including conifers, also the base for the Upper Loop of Garden Railway. Rockery built myself of various kinds of stone in simulated geological structure (not visible here).
- Valrosa Cabin workshop - centre background, brown, fully insulated, built for us in 2007 by Acer Landscapes.
- Water Rockery - centre L, with pumped water course, upper pools, cascades, and lower loop of garden railway (but these details not visible here). Almost all built myself.
Plants (also noted on photo)
(including some in neighbours' gardens)
- Acer palmatum 'Fire Glow' - Japanese maple, in container on terrace, front R.
- Buxus sempervirens - in concrete container, grown from seedling, shaped into globe. L foreground, and jelly-mould box-hedge, centre L.
- Chamaecyparis - probably C. lawsoniana, Lawson's cypress, 'Stewartii' or 'Westermannii' - neighbours' tall conifer, R centre.
- Clematis armandii - further part of hedge, R centre.
- Clematis cirrhosa var. balearica - L centre, growing over old apple tree stumps.
- Cotoneaster frigidus - centre L skyline.
- Escallonia macrantha - two shrubs shaped into an arch over side path, L side only visible here, centre R.
- Hedera helix - ivy, variegated form, forming nearest hedge, on R.
- Juniperus scopulorum 'Skyrocket' - pillar juniper, centre R.
- Lonicera japonica - Japanese honeysuckle, evergreen, part of R hedge.
- Pinus nigra - Austrian/black pine, in container, centre R, so rather like a large bonsai.
- Platycladus orientalis 'Beverleyensis' - (formerly Thuja orientalis) golden form of Eastern Thuja, far L, above roof of bike shed.
- Pyrus probably P. communis - common pear tree, in neighbours' garden, top L bacground.
- Quercus - probably Q. robur L., pedunculate oak, still with its leaves, growing along back fence of neighbouring garden, top mid R.
- Taxus baccata - yew, golden fastigiate form, probably 'Standishii' - in neighbour's garden, uppermost L.
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LOCATION DETAILS
Country: Great Britain: England
City: London
London Borough: Lambeth
District: West Dulwich, SE21
Altitude: 40m
Aspect: view is approx westward and R side of garden gets most sun.
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Photo
Brian Roy Rosen
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Another Brick In The Wall is really a three part song from The Wall by Pink Floyd. The album was released in 1979 and was an opera about the life of a rock star named Pink based upon Floyd's bassist Roger Waters.
The first part of the song had the working title "Reminiscing".
Daddy's flown across the ocean
Leaving just a memory
Snapshot in the family album
Daddy what else did you leave for me?
Daddy, what'd'ja leave behind for me?!?
All in all it was just a brick in the wall.
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.
"You! Yes, you! Stand still laddy!"
Here is a link to part one performed live in 1980.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzwIUVFSVmM
The second part had the working title "Edcuation".
We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
"Wrong, Do it again!"
"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you
have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"
"You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!"
Here is a link to part two from the film "The Wall".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_bvT-DGcWw
Part three had the working title "Drugs".
I don't need no arms around me
And I dont need no drugs to calm me.
I have seen the writing on the wall.
Don't think I need anything at all.
No! Don't think I'll need anything at all.
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.
All in all you were all just bricks in the wall.
Here is a link to part three from the movie "The Wall". Bob Geldof plays Pink. He is famous for organizing Live Aid in 1985 and was the lead singer for "The Boomtown Rats".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbh_k5GLRuQ
And performed live in 1980.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0tzHUy0GFw&NR=1&feature=...
Taken with a Canon S3IS and enhanced with the Graphic Converter gloom filter. Type L for a better view.
Our Daily Challenge - Song Lyrics - 5/4/11