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A couple of great photoblogs I have found recently:

The first is Minimodi from Gothenburg, Sweden. Varied subjects, consistently high quality. Click on each image to go to the following image.

The second is City Snaps from San Francisico. Mostly urban work, also of consistently high quality. A great example is this; Hanging Around, which is very nearly a perfect black and white shot, in my opinion.

There are far too many images between the two for me to possibly point out all of my personal favourites – so grab a coffee, sit back, and go see for yourself.

“Making a fortune is simple. All you need to do is find something worthless and give it value.”

I have no idea who came up with that concept, but he or she was one smart cookie.

I used to have a fair measure of respect for AA Gill. His writing style is interesting, as, I thought, was his attitude to the world that he finds himself in.

However if this story is true;

Gill wrote: “I took him just below the armpit. He slumped and slid sideways. I’m told they can be tricky to shoot: they run up trees, hang on for grim life. They die hard, baboons. But not this one. A soft-nosed .357 blew his lungs out.”

And this really is the sole reason that he shot that Baboon;

“I wanted to get a sense of what it might be like to kill someone, a stranger. You see it in all those films: guns and bodies, barely a close-up of reflection or doubt. What does it really feel like to shoot someone, or someone’s close relative?”

Well then I cannot remember ever losing my respect for anyone as fast as I have just lost my respect for AA Gill.

That’s all, really, I have nothing further to add.

I just spotted a witty remark in the comments of an article titled ‘Would Europe back President Blair?’ on the UK Guardian’s comment is free section. It genuinely made me laugh out loud, and I think it needs sharing, so here it is;

Question: Would Europe back President Blair?

Answer: Preferably off a cliff, at the point of a bayonet.

Well said that man/woman.

I was looking around the intertubes for a new pair of boots, and by chance happened across what are probably the most artistic looking shoes and boots that I have ever seen, just one example of which is shown below.

New Rock Boots

They are made by a company named New Rock, which seems to consist of a family of shoemakers in Spain that have been making boots and shoes for several generations.

I have no idea what the prices are like – though I have a feeling that they are probably of the ‘If you need to ask…’ variety – but whatever the cost, for boots that nice looking they are probably worth it.

The only problem I have is that the boots they make are completely impractical for what I need my new boots to do, so I have bought some of these instead.

However, the next time that I am in the market for some new motorcycle boots I know now where I will be buying them from, whatever they cost.