A good vantage point for photographing the Princes Street Christmas Fair for these tourists.
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Big Fat Chips and Nutella Crêpes
Food to keep you warm, at the Princes Street Christmas Fair.
My Head Is Spinning
The sound of laughter and pop music from the 1980s. The smell of Aberdeen Angus burgers mixed with sweet, chocolate-filled crêpes. A sip of Glühwein and children spinning in giant, neon-lit tea cups. The Fair is a heady mix that saturates the senses.
Sign of the Times
It’s a sign of the times that the most glamorous part of Edinburgh’s main shopping street in the lead up to Christmas is the new Primark cut-price clothing shop. It’s as if all the other shops have just given up.
Shocking Monkey Text
As seen on Princes Street.
Why I Switched My Photoblog To WordPress.com
Where I came from I’ve been blogging for many years, firstly on hosted services like Typepad, then moving to hosting my own WordPress installations for several blogs. It’s a bit more effort to host things yourself, but you do get total control over your site, something I wanted. I also like to know how things …
Photography program on TV tonight
A quick aside for any UK readers that there is a program on BBC 4 tonight at 9pm called “America in Pictures: The Story of Life Magazine” which looks at some of Life’s famous photos and the photographers behind them. Rankin made a program for the BBC earlier this year, where he re-shot some famous …
