Friday, December 30, 2005

Friday, December 23, 2005

Venus Bay Street Party



Notice that even the police horse is dressed up

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

A summer romance


Towards dusk a local flock of galahs congregate on the power lines atthe end of our lane (to catch the last rays of warmth). the rest of the story requires no words





Tuesday, December 13, 2005

The Harmattan winds


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Originally uploaded by imageo.
The dust-laden north-easterly harmattan winds blowing from
the Sahara have reachedcentral western Ghana. Christmas must be near!

Monday, December 12, 2005

Photomosics :: More Experiments


Photomosics :: More Experiments
Originally uploaded by imageo.
Returning to the experiment I started last week, I have been taking a number of time lapse photos (using the night scene setting on my camera, which leave the shutter open up to 4 seconds) from a moving bus in the early mornings. Of course the images are blurred and streaked out, but the colours and the abstract patterns are pretty amazing. I like the effects such "abstract" photos can create when you combine them, and add repeating paterns as in he examples below. (I used the picture grid feature in picasa's collage maker, and gimp for the grids)

Picasa collage jigsaw overlay with GIMP pattern filter

Picasa collage GIMPmosaic

Picasa collage modified using GIMPmosaic
You may need to click onto the larger image to fully appreciate these

This post preceded photofriday topic :Blur by a few months but I'll put a retro-link back here now

Friday, December 09, 2005

African Dawn


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Originally uploaded by imageo.
I guess it is hard to feel the balmy embracy of yet another hazy - misty dawn in central western ghana.

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Mobile Marketing


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Originally uploaded by imageo.
Roadside sellers are all along, any road you care to take in ghana.Like most Ghanians, Sonali has a lovely smile and was happy to have her photo taken, but I doubt this web presence is going to have much impact on her sales.

Monday, December 05, 2005

The bread makers


The bread makers
Originally uploaded by imageo.
This family were busy preparing bread rolls, as dusk fell. These rolls are comonly sold on the roadside by ladies with a large basket full of the rolls perched on their head.

Front & Center


front & center
Originally uploaded by imageo.
The smartest dress secruity guards in town. Late afternoon but i did use a fill flash to make sure the dark skin tones had a little detail.

Saturday, December 03, 2005

Road Trip Collage

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Road Trip Collage, originally uploaded by imageo.

This is is one of those, "now for something completely different" posts. It was inspired by firstly photo fridays experimatal topic and secondly by boredom (I am currently spending 4 hours a day in a bus travelling the backroads of ghana.

This is a collage of available light images taken on a very misty morning, from a "moving" bus.



for photofriday topic :Experimental