The thing I have been working on!

I have been working on a technique called spherical imaging at work. Below is my first finished effort. Click on the screen and zoom in and out. You can interact with the image. It is the centre of village where I work. (you can even see the metro if you look hard) Cool eh?

*Damn, doesn't work. I'll work on it. It really is interesting, i don't know if I can make it work on here though. If your interested see me on email or msn and and I can send you

Today

Just comming on today to talk about my second time eating Fois Gras. Absolutely loved it. This time it was with the proper liver as apossed to the pate, and it has to have been one of the nicest things I've ever eaten. I was photographing at a nearby restarant, (pictures below) and the we Martine, the owner wanted some images of her best dishes. So we had fois gras, then at the end she opened a bottle of champagne to go with the desert. Perfect.

Also some links to a couple of nice websites. Oliver Douzou is the guy who designs, for free each year, the poster for the Capmomes Childrens Spectacular in the village where I live. I really like his style. Also there is the link for the festival and another website I like.

www.capmomes.fr

www.olivierdouzou.com

www.lesfreds.com

Around Arvieu

A couple more images from the weekend. Yesterday was a big bank holiday here in France, so I went to a fete which was good. As always, really good food, wine and apperitif (strong alchol). I was thinking about what it is that makes France special though, and I think even more than the food or the countryside and weather its the way that the old and young mix and respect and understand each other so well. At all the local fetes its young and old a like, sat cheek to jowel eating and living in the same space. Everyone mixes without even thinking about it.

Images from Belcastel and Peyre

Images from the last couple of days. All fromin and around Aveyron. Including acouple of the Norman Foster designed Millau Viaduct. I was travelling with a neighbour here called Momon (a lovely man) and Loukman from Mali whose in France for the first time. Seeing the old and beautiful villages of southern France. The Chateau in one of the images is a thousand years old and fascinating. A man called : Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986) was very involved with it and is also very interesting.

Typography

I was working on a typeface based on circles. Here are a couple of images of it. Its a little too complex for what it was intended for (a logo for spherical imaging techniqe).
I particularly like the f, a and the s (it was tricky but i think its a neat solution) The only letter I couldn't find a solution for was the z. Any ideas on that or general thoughts are welcome.

Website Update.

Finally got round to updating my website a bit. At the moment its only links and including this blog, but hopefully it the beginning of getting it updated properly. www.bgbphotography.com

Caplongue 9th July 2008

Ok, here are the second images taken last weekend. It was untypical weather. I forgot to mention last time that I'm living with Vincent and Audrey in the village of Caplongue. Its about 5 minutes from Arvieu where I work. Heres the link to the arvieu website: www.arvieu.fr Thats where Laetis the company I'm working for is. A very successful Multimedia company with strong ideals and happy staff, right in the middle of nowhere. Its great.

Caplongue 9th July 2008.

So I arrived in France for my summer as a work experience kid in a cool French multimedia company. I'm tucked away in the countryside, far away from just about everything. My first thoughts on arriving were this place is quiet. It is, its really quiet. Really. I'm in Aveyron in southern France, not far that far from Toulouse or Montpelier. The atmosphere at work is great, nice people, fascinating company and right in the heart of traditional France. Did I mention it was quiet.
Here are the first images, a little disapointing on reflection, but I'll put in down to the jet lag.:s They're all fromin and around the area I'm living.