I was commissioned to photograph the transformers journey from the docks to site, and to create a time lapse video of the transformer being unloaded and moved into place.

The 137 tonne transformer was offloaded from the “Prudence” Cargo ship to Swansea Docks early on Saturday 10th April and transferred on to a 65m long transporter, provided by Abnormal Load Engineering (ALE). The transformer then started its slow and trouble free journey to site at 6:30am on Sunday, 11th April.

Here’s the video of the transformer being offloaded at site and jacked into place.

Anyway talking of Mooing, my new Moo Cards turned up today, and they are Mootastic (see what I did there)

One says MOO and the other says I knew you were gonna say that ! Always make;s me chuckle does that joke !

Anyway talking of Mooing, my new Moo Cards turned up today, and they are Mootastic (see what I did there)

Those of you who are thinking I have gone utterly Mad as a cow here’s a pic of what I am talking about:

They are business cards but with an image on the flip side. You can have up to 50  different images.

I Love them I hope you do too.

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I have been off the scene for a couple of years but this year I have finally managed to catch up with guys and see them gig a good few times.

The best thing tho is being able to help them out by getting some good images for them to use on their website & promo material.

Although I didn’t take these images recently I thought they would be worthy of a mention on the blog. Especially as the band have just been to the studio and recorded an EP. Go and check out their website and have a listen.

Here’s a few images that I have made for them over the last year. Hit me in the comments if you likey

Later

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As we (me and my good wife Laura) approached the top of the Downs we could see  the Para-gliders & Hang gliders preparing for take off. It was a fantastic site, one which you just couldn’t stop looking at. It was intoxicating watching the control these guys had, literally floating inches from ground. In fact one guy spotted me taking photographs and slowly sidled down beside me (without touching down) and took a business card off me. This was  off the scale on the cool ‘o’ meter.

By the time we had gotten down off the hill and walked across the beach, some of the gliders had  started to land. So I got talking to a couple of them, and it turns out that they work at the Sky diving school in Swansea Airport. Turns out the jump plain was broken down, so the guys being  tue adrenaline junkies, decided to go paragliding to get their fix !

Any how here’s a bunch of photo’s from our walk.

The area is one of the poorest in the Bridgend area, so the center is much appreciated facililty. Boasting a state of the art computer room and extensive Library.

Here’s a few shots from the day to get a feel for the area.

Before anyone starts thinking I am a Mac fanboy , I am not, I am sure you can do just the same on a PC, but what I liked about the Mac and it’s software, is the easy at which I have been able to set up this work-flow.

Its’ all down to Apple’s aperture software and the way it intergrates with the Mobileme service. Once I have finished editing images after a shoot I can pick my selects for the client and with a couple of click’s I am uploading them to an online gallery. The gallery enables the client to download a single image or the whole gallery in a zip file.

Whats really cool too is you can continue to work on the image, making changes to the post processing and then you can synchronsie with the online album with a single click. This is great for collaborative work.

The acid test was when my clients started using the system, the feed back has been very positive, comments such as :- simple -intutive – cool !

So I hope apple broaden the features within Mobileme & Aperture, it would be nice if you could allow the clients to rate the images, or even intergrate a shopping cart & print service.  Come on Apple you know you want to !

Later

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