Another night out taking photos, this time around a local cemetery which was lit superbly. Click to enlarge pics.

Walking up to the cemetery	Path along the back of the church
Headstones and shadows
Path at the side of the church
More headstones

As ever, comments and suggestions welcome.

~Shepy

My friend Paul and I decided to spend our Saturday having a look at the excellent exhibition at the Side Gallery of ‘Women In Prison’ with photographs of incarcerated women taken in prisons throughout the world, spanning a decade worth of work for photographer Jane Evelyn Atwood. It really is an excellent exhibition with some seriously powerful and thought provoking images, and best of all it’s free so you really have no excuse not to go see it!

After the exhibition we thought we would wander about the town doing some street photography, and here are some of the images from the day. Click images to enlarge.

Skaters at the Bigg Market
A skater jumps as his mates look on	Jumping the steps
More jumping down the stairs
Skater jumping down the stairs
The Long Stairs, Newcastle	Brave cyclist riding down the Long Stairs
Sax-o-ma-phone on Northumberland Street	Trumpet playing on Northumberland Street
Overgrown gravestone at St Andrew
Skater at the law courts	Mid air when skating
I believe i can fly....	Blinding skaters with flash
More flash-blind skaters	Newcastle Quayside & Tyne Bridge

As ever, comments and suggestions welcome.

~Shepy

I had arranged to go out taking a few pics round the town with a friend of mine tonight, and as luck would have it mist had really set in, which made for a few nice pics

(click to enlarge)

As ever, comments and suggestions welcome

~Shepy

Ok,

So a friend of mine has made a joke site for a mutual friend of ours, as his joke Christmas present.

I’m trying to link farm a bit and get this site to the top of the google rankings.

The help i am looking for, is if you could edit your signatures on forums or provide a link from your site to point over to this site, it would be most appreciated.  For this to work the text of the link has to be Gary Pallas and link to http://www.garypallaswasadirtybirth.co.uk – so the link should look like this Gary Pallas

If you can help, then thank you very much and please comment here to let me know.  If not, then thanks for looking anyway.

~Shepy

Two good friends of mine, Gemma & Shaun, got married in Cyprus in October. As well as inviting me to the wedding, they asked if I wouldn’t mind doing the photos as well, which I was obviously more than happy to help out with.

The wedding was absolutely great, and the entire trip great fun.

Here are a few of the images from the day:

At the champagne reception

Seeing as how I had covered the London Stop the War coalition protest, as there was one a lot closer in Edinburgh, it seemed silly not to head along to photograph that too. The Edinburgh Stop the War protest march was on the 14th November.

Bright and early Saturday morning, Paul and I headed up to Edinburgh and arrived shortly before the protest started.

There was only a fraction of the attendance compared to the London one, but that is to be expected I suppose, even if only due to the size of the respective cities.

The protest marched round the streets of Edinburgh, passing through major shopping and public areas, passing the Edinburgh International Conference Centre where the NATO conference was being held, then continued on down into the Princes Street Gardens.

A few pics from the day (click to enlarge)

The rest of the album can be seen in my gallery here.

~Shepy

Looking out the window tonight I could barely see the other side of the street as a thick fog had descended. As I live right on the banks of the Tyne I couldn’t resist doing a few shots of the well known of “Fog on the Tyne”.  Click images to enlarge.

Pathway along the Tyne

Dunston Staiths in the fog

Tyne Bridge disappearing into the fog

Swing bridge in the fog

Fog on the Tyne

Comments and suggestions welcome

~Shepy

For a bit of a change, rather than just shooting empty derelict buildings, a fellow and I headed up to an asylum today with on of his friends to do a bit of a model shoot in a local asylum.  A fun day, and got quite a few pics I was happy with:

A few of the pics (click to enlarge):

You can view the rest of the album in my gallery by clicking here.

As ever, comments etc welcome

~Shepy

As anyone who has been out taking pics with me will tell you, its very very rare I ever bother shooting landscape stuff, just doesn’t really float my boat.

A friend called me up and asked if I fancied a look to Holy Island with him though, and as I had nothing better on I thought it would be worth going even if just for the craic.

Took a few pics on the day, but this is the only one I’m really happy with.

~Shepy

Having arrived quite early in to London for the protest from the previous post, Paul and I had some time to kill waiting for the start of proceedings, so decided to pretty much just wander aimlessly for a bit, taking in a few sights and getting some random shots. This post is to collect together some of those, and all images can be clicked to enlarge:

First off is the Battle of Britain memorial, situated on the north bank of the Thames opposite the London Eye, this really is an amazing monument, definitely worth a spy at if you are visiting the capital. A sentiment which Paul agrees with over on his blog!

Turning around from there you see the London Eye on the opposite embankment, and love it or hate it the Eye has changed the scene on the riverbank for the foreseeable future.  Situated next to the of Greater London Council building it towers over the city as the largest ferris wheel in Europe.

Wandering through the streets of London, round such familiar Monopoly streets such as Park Lane and Oxford Street,  it often pays to get off the beaten track slightly and poke down the little arcades and side streets where you will find some wonderful little tucked away gems, such as:

Also while on Piccadilly, we saw a shop that was selling these funky handbags, purses and other items all of which are made from flattened and woven empty sweet wrappers.

And finally, after the protest and a bite to eat we decided to go down and see the protest camp at Westminster, so I had to get the obligatory few shots of Westminster Clock Tower, home of Big Ben.

Hope you enjoyed the pics

~Shepy