 Where the hell is Paul? |
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OK, this entry probably won't get me any awards for Picture of the Week, but I thought it was worth publishing anyhooo.
I've seen so many people having their photo taken of themselves standing in front of whatever monument or scene they were witnessing. Actually I forget how many times I helped fulfil the task for them. "Here's a bloke with a big camera, he can take it for us..." I'd imagined they'd go through their photo albums in the future saying "Here's me standing in front of...." and "oh and here's me standing in front of...". These people never seemed to take any pictures of the places or the people, but they will end up having an album full of proof that they'd been somewhere.
So about one in every 400 photos that I took I thought I'd better do the same thing, and started a theme.
It was inspired by the very clever "Where the Hell is Matt" video, that you can see on YouTube. It'll take a bit to download, but it's good. Open it in another window and let it download and come back here! I've even seen it being played on the big screens here in Times Square in New York city.
Obviously not having a video camera, or the dancing abilities that Matt has, you'll just have to do with arms length self-portraits.
A truly self indulgent blog entry. Allow me this once!
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July 10th 2009 - clare m: great compliation!
Great compliation - luv yr 'tude! ;-)
July 10th 2009 - Alicia (used to be Hill): You are the master ......
Hi Paul,
Not only am I jealous .... so completly jealous of you and your unique travel diary - but also so jealous of your talented One Handed Photography! You are the master of the One Handed Photo ... aka OHP (sigh) I had hopes, dreams and aspirations during my education at SCECGS but this talent of yours surpasses all of them!
travel safe my friend - would be great to share Santorini stories on your return!
July 10th 2009 - denidax: nice one
Funny entry!!!, it is kinda the same thing as we did in our trip... but with our feet: Want to see the world?... Look, it's just under your feet
Thanks for your compliments, Alicia. I'd happily return to Santorini anytime, although I need a month to catch up on savouring my own bed, holding my kids, and doing some washing first! I'm going to need an equal amount of time to work out which of the 10,000 photos to print out, but I'd reckon there's going to be at least one giant print of Santorini on my living room wall very soon.
July 14th 2009 - Sean McVitty:
Love it!!!! ...what an adventure.
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48 foot high wall, Belfast
to keep the bloody catholics away from the bloody protestants. Bloody religion.
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July 10th 2009 - clare m: great compliation!
Great compliation - luv yr 'tude! ;-)
July 10th 2009 - Alicia (used to be Hill): You are the master ......
Hi Paul,
Not only am I jealous .... so completly jealous of you and your unique travel diary - but also so jealous of your talented One Handed Photography! You are the master of the One Handed Photo ... aka OHP (sigh) I had hopes, dreams and aspirations during my education at SCECGS but this talent of yours surpasses all of them!
travel safe my friend - would be great to share Santorini stories on your return!
July 10th 2009 - denidax: nice one
Funny entry!!!, it is kinda the same thing as we did in our trip... but with our feet: [diary=335308]
Thanks for your compliments, Alicia. I'd happily return to Santorini anytime, although I need a month to catch up on savouring my own bed, holding my kids, and doing some washing first! I'm going to need an equal amount of time to work out which of the 10,000 photos to print out, but I'd reckon there's going to be at least one giant print of Santorini on my living room wall very soon.
July 14th 2009 - Sean McVitty:
Love it!!!! ...what an adventure.
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