Monthly Archive for September, 2007

This weeks random event?

Published on September 20, 2007 in Uncategorized. 4 Comments

What is this bird of prey? (Boston, MA), originally uploaded by yezzer.

Walking around Boston at lunch, I wandered down to the river to take some photos and try out my new 18-200mm lens.
To my suprise, i saw this bird of prey sitting in the shade, dismemberng a squirrel.
It let me get very close, about 8 feet away, then when i moved a little suddenly, it flew off and perched in a tree about 10ft off the ground, above a path. Naturally I had to go over and take some more photos, and a small crowd gathered round to watch. I asked if this was a common sight, and none of the locals had seen this before.. it was quite amazing actually

Boston rocks!:D

Welcome to Boston – Flashforward

Published on September 19, 2007 in actionscript, boston, flashforward, internet, life and photography. 0 Comments

Well we’re here! And Boston really is a lovely place. Thanks again to D+D for sending us!

I’ll upload pictures to Flickr throughout the week, and i’ll blog whether we win the award tonight!

Shoreham Airshow crash photo

Published on September 17, 2007 in airshow, brighton, crash, life, photo, photography, shoreham and worthing. 14 Comments

UPDATE: The Worthing Herald replies! See below..

When I heard a plane had crashed round the corner from my house, I had to go take a look, although I did feel like I was ‘rubbernecking’ I took a few photos of the crash site while I was there.

I just had a comment from someone on Flickr saying that the Worthing Herald is using my photo (it’s the last one in the series) and attributing it to a “Jay Kay Kappa”. You can see the original picture above, or see the flickr page here.

Massive co-incidence? They look identical to me, even the individuals postures and the position of the smoke.

If my photo is wrongly attributed, I wonder any of these photos are actually by “Jay Kay Kappa”?

UPDATE: The Worthing Herald replies!

Jon from The Worthing Herald has been in contact with both Nic and myself, to let us know that they received these photographs through press channels, and they then discussed a fee with Jay.

I can’t believe this guy has been going around collecting photos from the public, then passing them off as his own, thereby profiting from someone’s death!
It’s worth noting that I have been offered a fee, which I will donate to a relevant charity, most likely the Royal Air Forces Association

I’d like to thank The Worthing Herald for helping sort this out quickly and fairly, thanks guys!

We’re going to Flashforward in Boston!

Published on September 16, 2007 in actionscript, boston, brighton, flashforward, internet and life. 4 Comments

Littleloud are sending Paul and me to Flashforward in Boston, where we’ve been nominated for the Game award! Yey! Fingers crossed.

Last time we were nominated for an award we won it!

I’ll post a few updates on here while i’m over there, and also i’ll update Twitter

Wonder what good things there are to do in Boston?

Lost iPod!

Published on September 13, 2007 in brighton, internet, ipod and life. 20 Comments

UPDATE: The iPod has been returned! See below..

I found an iPod lying on the street on the way to work this morning.
Personally, if I lost my iPod i’d be gutted, so i’ll do what I can to find the rightful owner and return it to them!
If this fails, i’ll either take it to the Police, or ask Apple if they can help.
In all honesty, if I hand it in to the police, I wouldn’t be suprised if it was “accidentally” lost..

So far i’ve posted to a couple of local mailing lists. I’ve checked out lostipods.com but no luck so far.

The most interesting thing is that the iPod has photos on it – what with Brighton having such a close-knit community, i’m sure that if I post a photo from this iPod, someone is going to recognise them, and might be able to help me find who the iPod belongs to!

I’ll print out some sheets of A4 and stick them up near where I found it.
If you recognise the people in the photo, or can give me some info on this, then email me at: foundipodinbrighton{at}googlemail{dot}com

Now just in case you’re thinking of blagging this and claiming it as your own, don’t even think about it! This iPod is peronalised in so many ways, i’ll be asking anyone who says it’s theirs a lot of questions to help identify it as their own!

Ok, here’s the photos:

Recognise them? Get in touch!

[edited to remove one photo as some people thought it was a bit too personal - fair play]

UPDATE: 24 hours later, it’s been returned!

It seems that a post i sent to BNM was seen by a certain Carl Hodler, who happened to see that someone on Facebook had set their status to “…is pining for her lost ipod..” – he then contacted her, she contacted me, and the rest is history!

I met up with Lucy this morning, returned the iPod, and now i’m in the possession of a rather nice bottle of 2003 Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon – thanks Lucy! Oh, and most importantly, good karma!

Edit: Actually Al read it from my post on FlashBrighton, who then sent it round Kerb