• All the colourful butterflies seem to have deserted our garden, but we’ve had one very persistent speckled wood the last day or so which I was able to get close to with the macro lens. It’s even just about backlit!

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    It's Only Rock and Roll

    I’m taking up the challenge posed on the chat forum to post some of my rock and roll photos. They are mainly quite old and technically terrible, but they are a big part of my personal history. I’m glad...

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    • Really enjoyed reading that.

    • To finish your title…..but I like it 👏👏

      Thanks Paul, for taking the time to put this together really enjoyed the stories and the images

    • Wow, nice one Paul. There’s no such thing as a ‘bad photo’ in these circumstances – it’s all about documenting history and having fun along the way. Thanks for posting these, they are great.

      • Cheers Shaun! Are you still doing gig photography? You must be gathering quite a portfolio by now. It’s then just a matter of waiting until they get famous.

        • Hi Paul, I’m not doing so much now, probably only 3-4 gigs a year compared to the 100+ I did 2019. I’m very selective over what I do as people just take the piss and unless you are already working at the top you aren’t getting in, so I just do the stuff I like. I do have tons of photos though, and yes one day some of them will be famous. Well one of them is getting there – James, the singer of Yard Act used to be in a band called Cruel World and I photographed them a few times. I now need to find a new avenue for photography and I think that macro lens might be coming in handy as macro is something I’ve always struggled with, but I did enjoy the technical aspects of studio photography so I’ll try combining the two. Much more predictable than bands.

    • Interesting read Paul, thanks for posting. I went to many concerts in my youth but not one with a camera so only sketchy memories which get sketchier by the day!

      • I know what you mean about the memory. There are gigs I know I was at but cannot recall a thing about; others where I have very clear memories but cannot find any trace anywhere that the gig actually happened. Some of my most precious memories may well be hallucinations!

    • Very cool. And very enjoyable too. Loving seeing some stuff from you guys.

  • This month has run away with me and I’m not going to get an entry in to the FotoMission this time. I have however used Photoshop beta to create an image using their AI ‘generative’ engine. This was all created using text commands apart from the actual slogan (AI is rubbish at spelling!)

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    Shaun, this is definitely starting to dictate my next upgrade as I will still be attempting to stay fanless which is getting pretty hard with GPU.

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    No worries. Looks like Topaz wins out in terms of being much more supportive of different computing environments.

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