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WELCOME.

If you are in here and you know what you're up to with this photography pastime and the new fangled computing invention that has come along... PLEASE DO FEEL AT LIBERTY TO TELL ME HOW TO IMPROVE my photographs. I won't mind. In fact, I would enjoy it. Promise. So bash away with your help.

What's going on with me then? Well, I've taken pics since I was 15, the same year I bruised my shin in a nasty roughty toughty game of rugby. It (the shin) is actually fine now, if you were worried. But I I haven't much of a clue what I am doing when it comes to camera work, I just get on with it. So, to say it again, if you think there are any useful hints I need to have, please lob them this way.

Collections I am happy with:

THE DPRK. North Korea..

The Architecture and Politics of The Royal Avenue, Bangkok.

Bangkok Since the 2006 Coup D'etat .

Sculpture, Thai Nation, Religion and Monarchy.

Being a Tourist in My Home Town, Bangkok..


However, some explanations for you all.

I stick frames around all my photos because I do.

I don't know why, but I think they look okay. So they're going to stay for a wee while yet.





But, but, but, if you want some glorious pretentious post rationalising art school tosh I'll give you some. That geezer Henri Cartier-Bresson and his "defining moments". You know him? Right. Marvellous. Well he was one for filling his viewfinder with everything he wanted and for not cropping the print when he got his films back home from the chemist. What we got was the whole flipping Bresson viewfinder lot. And all very Zen it was too.

Now it comes to me. I am nowhere near half as good as yer man Henri. My photos get cropped because I manage to get all sorts of distracting nonsense in the pic that no one is interested in. To make it blinking obvious that I've had a lash with the electronic scalpel I stick a white edge around the edges. It's not Zen I know. I suppose it's rather Protestant Work Ethic... the pants stuff goes.



Another tidbit. When I look through my camera viewfinder (unlike the daft planks that stare at the one inch screen on their silver Konicas waggling away some 40 cm in front of their forehead ...with their mouths gaping half open), when I look through my camera viewfinder I see black surrounding the bright bit whats in the middle. So I give the black framey malarkey to you as well, treat it like a free bonus. You see what I see. (Ahaha... though I'm sneaking some white frames in now, a rather negative approach.)

Alternatively, and to tart that previous statement up.... "We see how Adap's images are wrenched from the physical and spiritual world. They are no longer a part of it. Thus to connect Ad's images to the wider whiteness on the internet page would both deceive the dislocated viewer and reinforce a morally bankrupt society."




I haven't finished. More post rationalising coming up.

Many of my photos are shot on an angle. (Too many, my Auntie Violet tells me, she thinks I overdo it.) The simple reason for this is that I am hopeless at doing level horizons and have now given up trying.



But if you need the Peggy Guggenheim brochure drivel here goes:

"Pollack, dear Jackson Pollack, once declaimed, on the opening night of his MOMA retrospective, "Peggy, petal, there are no edges in my art, only borders." And, you know lovies, I liked that in dear, dear Jacko. So for you lot, and as a tribute to the lad with the drippy paintpot, Adaptor-Plug has taken this further, "There is no gravity in Ad's world, he seems to stick to the planet through luck alone. And believe you me, he's stuck to a fair amount of it."

Other Bits.

Where I've been...



Born in Barnet, raised in Kenton, off to Nottingham, up to Oxford, through East Africa, returned to Rutland, away to Hong Kong, a sortie into Kuala Lumpar, lived for a decade and a lifetime in Bangkok, decamping to Ho Chi Minh City / Saigon in July 2010.

Origins of Recent Photostream Visitors.




Please note that none of the above sent me any money. Straight past the donations box they went. I bet they were off to the Gift Shoppe and Olde Tea Rooms to buy a fridge magnet. Tossers.



My kind regards to you all,
AP




P.S. Bugger me senseless but one of my photos now is splattered across the cover of a United Nation's publication on "Good Governance." This one here...



More Details.

...and more recently, the events of 7th October 2008 in Bangkok,
as published in NyTid, Finland.




I am an Hermaphrodite and believe these flickr classifications of Gender and Singleness are lazy, hollow, archaic labels that both reflect and accelerate the decay of Internet Communities.