Monday, December 31, 2007


Contact Lens
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

My eye, up close, up really close. Nice isn't it.

Sunday, December 30, 2007


Manky Feather
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

I found this manky feather somewhere, I can't quite remember where it was. Oh that's right, it was stuck to some bird.

Saturday, December 29, 2007


Ash
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

Cigarette ashes. I'm certainly getting my money's worth from this macro lens.

Friday, December 28, 2007


Bee, Mostly Dead
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

There was a mostly dead bee on the path. He'd gotten his hair all soggy, and looked pretty down in the dumps. I think I captured that well.

Thursday, December 27, 2007


Heima
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

This is what Paul got me for Christmas. I can't remember what I got him, so it must not have been much good.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007


Nose
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

My dog's well behaved enough to lie down and stay still while I take photos of her nose, even though she's afraid of the noisy lens motor. Aww. Stupid dog.

Tuesday, December 25, 2007


Tamron 70-300mm
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

Christmas day, and is this not the most Christmassy photo you ever did see? Fuck Christmas.

Monday, December 24, 2007


Toys
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

Macro lenses bring with them the realisation that every thing you own is covered in dust.

Sunday, December 23, 2007


Waiting
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

Jessie hates being tied up outside the shop when I go in to buy stuff. This could be a deep-rooted distrust of being tied up, stemming from an incident as a puppy before I had her. Or maybe she's just being a little bitch.

Saturday, December 22, 2007


Egg Siege
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

With my new Sigma lens, I can finally create my Dawn of War photo-fanfic. Here is scene one: The Eggcident (Accident).

Friday, December 21, 2007


Foclóir
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

Did you guess f/2.9, well you're wrong, it's f/2.8, and don't you ever forget it. Oh, and interestingly, the Irish word for 'dictionary' is 'foclóir', which literally translates to 'words'.

Durr!

Thursday, December 20, 2007


Jessie
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

If Jessie were to defy me but once, I would destroy her.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007


Snickers
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

I bought a new lens today, a 50mm macro prime lens. Look at how it brings out the detail in these Snickers bars.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007


Sky
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

The sky's much clearer in Ireland, mostly because we're Catholics.

Monday, December 17, 2007


Cassie
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

Proof that dogs can look up. Try to silence me now.

Sunday, December 16, 2007


Jessie
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

Here's my Jessie, the dog that just loooooves to be hugged.

Saturday, December 15, 2007


Cassie
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

Here's Paul with his new dog Cassie. The old one died of stupidity and being fat and horrible.

Friday, December 14, 2007


Lights
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

I can't draw things in long exposure shots, but I can run around with my iPod out.

Thursday, December 13, 2007


Baker Street
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

Tube trains don't actually go that fast. The illusion of speed is created by the closeness of the tunnel walls, and the recently installed 'moving walls', which move in the opposite direction of the train.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007


Baker Street
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

Baker Street's got all this shite up on the walls. Memorials, plaques, all that rubbish. We get it, it's a really old place. Just shut up about it already.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007


PC Zone Hoodie :O
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

We did hoodies. After we took the piss out of PC Gamer for doing it, the burden was then forced upon us. Still, we did it in the most irreverent way possible.

Monday, December 10, 2007


Knife Edge
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

"I've had quite enough of you, water, STAB STAB STAB!"

Sunday, December 9, 2007


Dead Plant
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

I like the colours in this shot. Oh it's my shot? I'm fairly good aren't I.

Saturday, December 8, 2007


Rust
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

Nice freeze-frame action going on here. To think, water's doing all this impressive stuff all the time and we just don't notice it. Pigeons have a higher frame rate in their eyes than we do, so they're probably impressed with water all the time.

Friday, December 7, 2007


Aldgate East
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

Circle line trains go here to turn around, because if they went around the Circle line facing the same way the whole time, there would be uneven wear on the wheels. That's a fact. Or maybe a factoid?

Thursday, December 6, 2007


Dumbbell
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

I've never lifted this and I never plan to. If something is heavier than what I'm comfortable with picking up, then it's not worth picking up at all. Someone else can do that shit.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007


My Toothbrush
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

One of the rules of composition is that the subject should face into the empty space in the shot. Now, toothbrushes don't have faces, but check out this shot. The rules still apply.

Now try and tell me a toothbrush can't smile.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007


My Shoes, Under My Bed
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

One of the many nice things about Converse shoes is that they've been around for a long time, so black and white shots always look pleasing.

Monday, December 3, 2007


My TV Remote
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

I did the saturation on this shot so that the blue areas of a Sky remote are clearly identifiable. As you can see, the select button, its surrounding arrow buttons and the four menu buttons, are blue.

Next week, what bits are red on the Sky remote.

Sunday, December 2, 2007


Official Nintendo Magazine
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

I did some writing for this, and was told not to make jokes about animal sex after a quip about foxes doing it outside your window a night. But come on, foxes doing one another outside your window at night is so annoying. Those vixens scream as if boy foxes have dagger-cocks.

Saturday, December 1, 2007


My Chapstick
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey

My lips are so huge that I go through two tubes of chapstick on just one lip and by the time I've finished it's actually summer so I don't need chapstick unless I'm going swimming in the sea in which case chapstick helps prevent chapping.