Last week I trekked to the Royal Albert Hall with my sister and niece for a great time travelling adventure. Our destination was the Doctor Who prom, for which we had to day queue for arena tickets. We arrived at the venue just before 5am, almost starting the queue but beaten to that award by a mere 30 seconds. We were sold tickets at 9:30 and entered the arena at 10:30, when we took a spot right at the front. Whilst waiting we experienced several types of rain, played games, watched ‘The Pandorica Opens’ on my iPad, met Arthur Darvill (Rory), waved at Karen Gillan (Amy) and met some great individuals, all of whom made the day wonderful.

The show itself was out of this World. Stunning music, monsters walking amongst us, stars of the show presenting and Matt Smith popped up in the middle of the arena as the Doctor himself, doing a ten minute skit that involved a child assistant from the audience – something I’m sure that lad won’t be forgetting for a long time!

Below are the photos I took at the event of a day to remember…

(direct flickr.com link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocktographer/sets/72157624491153699/ )

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So I’m selling off the majority of my photography equipment. Why? I’m not doing as much (if any) photography work these days, and when I am, it’s not requiring the quality or speed of lenses that I mainly own through ten years of working as a gig photographer.

I’m listing these on my website as I’d much rather do a private sale. eBay fees are crippling and I’m not a fan of their ‘must offer one free p&p option’ – the majority of these items will need to be sent out being well padded and recorded/insured, so p&p will be quite pricey. Here’s a list of what I’m getting rid of, I’ve not got a set price in mind, please email or tweet (DM) me any offers. That said, I’m not going to give these away, so please don’t send anything other than a serious offer around the value they’re worth.

• Compact Flash cards (could be sold as a job lot or individually)
  - Jessops 2GB
  - Kingston 1024 MB (1GB)
  - Lexar 1GB Professional Grade
  - Kingston 16GB Elite Pro 133X
  - SanDisk 8GB Extreme III
• Nikon EN-EL3e Li-ion Battery 1500mAh
• Nikon 50mm 1.4D Lens AF NIKKOR
• Nikon 28mm 2.8D Lens AF NIKKOR
• Nikon 80-200mm 2.8D ED AF NIKKOR Zoom lens in Nikon CL-43A shoulder case
• Tamron 28-300mm 3.5-6.3D AF XR Di LD (IF)   (For Nikon body)

Lenses are all in pretty good condition, no scratches that I can see. All used as recently as last week, no problems. Email me offers on ian@rocktographer.co.uk or via twitter @ianmilleruk

Tonight I’m really loving this song.. no real reason why, it’s just really suiting my mood at the moment.

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Cradle me
I’ll cradle you
I’ll win your heart
With a woop-a-woo
Pulling shapes just for your eyes
So with toothpaste kisses and lines
I’ll be yours and you’ll be

Lay with me, I’ll lay with you
We’ll do the things that lovers do
Put the stars in our eyes
And with heart shaped bruises
And late night kisses
Devine

Random post. This entry, especially the video will only make sense to the person that it’s intended for. Anyone else, well, you’ll probably find it an example of how silly and borderline crazy I am???

Happy Birthday to you. You’ve made this year far more bearable and worth getting through. Thank you.

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…I have…

- Finished my current ebay auctions. Packed and labelled the ones that have payed tonight.
- Cooked and eaten dinner (courgette and garlic sauce with Penne)
- Watched Gadget Show
-  Filled in a provisional drivers licence application with the wrong coloured pen
- Drafted my blogs on 3 mobile’s MiFi device that I had on loan for a week
- Drafted other catch-up blogs
- Converted loads of Mp4s into DV format for editing for the dayjob
- Wrapped presents for a friends impending birthday
- Written (maybe a little too much) is said friends birthday card
- Had a quick online search for jobs, not that I need, just always looking to keep my options open
- Seen a pretty good job advertised at great wage… tempted, even though its at the polar end of London
- Played a few songs on my guitar
- Started to write a new life plan… things have been changing with what I want in life.

Not a bad evening.. on top a fairly productive day at work too.

Oh dear. It seems as though I’ve run out of rubbish to spit out on the internet lately.

In reality I’ve just not been very talkative. I’ve had to personal things to deal with and over the weekend another minor stomach bleed, which is now going to be investigated further. So whilst stuff hasn’t been brilliant, I’ve not been online as much. Don’t know why I need to explain this, doubt anyone is reading this page regularly.

Things are picking up though and I have been out and have things to write about; some video interviews that are almost complete for What’s On Stage, Coldplay at Wembley and going to watch John Barrowman in La Cage Aux Folles.

I’m also thinking of doing a weekly column style post. Just no idea on what though.

Basterds search on google

How the hell’d'this happen? Google a few words – a film title and one memorable word in the movie – and I’m the first result that’s returned? No wonder I’ve been getting so many hits! How disappointing you must be if you clicked that result, my post is just my quite boring opinion on the film. I’d love to have something like a video or sound clip to accompany, but thats not going to happen…

Oh well. If you’re looking at this site in bemusement, know that I’m as bemused as you.

A selection of pictures from my Photo Exhibition last month. Many thanks to Alex Lawrence for coming along and taking these snaps for me.

Yeah.. I know I harp on about how unwell I’ve mainly been of late. I can only apologise, but its fact that I’ve been hindered by a lot these past few weeks.

Last week’s stomach bug wasn’t particularly nice. Just as I thought it was passing, it transformed into a stomach bleed. Luckily I saw the signs early and my brilliant doctors set about to help me combat it quickly. So I’ve gone from feeling weak and on death’s door to almost myself again in 6 days.

Why post this online? Well I figure someone I know may care for the update, but it’s another great example of why us Brits love the NHS #welovethenhs – really Americans, get behind the public option.

…and now I’ve (hopefully) escaped something very nasty occurring to me, I’m getting on with the work I’ve had on the back seat whilst I’ve been checked over by the NHS during the early part of the week.

x
ian