EASTBOURNE & BRIGHTON

Gay Pride photo by Barbie

Me standing on the Wilmington Man photo by Barbie

Over the past week Barbie and I have been staying near Eastbourne, we travelled down on the Friday. On the Saturday we went to Brighton for the Gay Pride parade had a good time. On the Sunday we walked the Seven Sisters from Eastbourne to Seaford, by the time we got to Seaford, Barbie was worn out and couldn't walk back, so I walked back on my own and got the car and drove round and picked Barbie up. On the Monday we drove to Dungeness for the day, on Tuesday and Wednesday we travelled around a bit and visited various places including the chalk man at Wilmington, I climb up and stood on him..which not supposed to do..oh well.On the Thursday we went back to Brighton, travelling back home on the Friday via the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.

BEYOND GROUP NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION

sequence & photography by Barbie

Over the weekend it was the judging of the 4th "Beyond Group" National Open Exhibition, we set up the hall on the Friday afternoon and the judging took place all day Saturday and part of Sunday. We had over 3000 digital images in three sections (Colour,Monochrome & Nature) from photographers from all over Great Britain which had to be reduced to about 500 images by the judges, so you had a 1 in 6 chance of getting an acceptance. For the first time we had two print sections (Colour & Monochrome) where we had over 600 prints, which had to be reduced to 170, so you had a 1 in 3.5 chance. We use three top exhibition judges to do the job using a silent scoring machine, then discussing with each other to pick the awards. We always have two judges from outside the region and one from the Beyond Group or within the EAF region, we had Peter Young from Bromsgrove, Leo Rich from Salisbury and Me (Rusty Lindsay) from the Beyond Group. Please view the little video sequence. visit Beyond Group web site

I SAW JESUS DRIVING A MERCEDES

song written and performed by Rusty

I recorded a song I had written, inspired by my friend J Dog when he claimed he had seen Jesus driving a Mercedes, I had a little fun and distorted my voice and made a video of Kinky my cat singing the song...just press play..hope you enjoy it.

CAMDEN

graffiti at Camden Lock for Amy photo by Rusty

photo by Barbie

On Sunday Barbie and Myself went to Camden, we met up with a couple of friends at Camden Lock market, but on the way Barbie wanted to visit Amy Winehouse's flat to see the tributes left outside.