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INTERVIEW WITH THE TRAMP BUYER is now online

Interview With The Tramp Buyer tells the dark story of people trafficking, love, hate and GREED.

Chapter One

“Yes, I see,” said the buyer as he walked towards the window. For a long time he stood against the dim lights of Queen Street.
The boy could see the furniture in the room more clearly now, the Sony 42” plasma TV, the dark brown leather of the 3 seat Chesterfield sofa, and armchairs. The boy sat at a rectangular oak table and waited.

“How much tape do you have with you?” asked the buyer, turning slightly so the boy could now see his profile, “Enough for a life story?”

“Tape?” the boy asked, “oh, you mean how much hard disk space do I have for recording, 16 gigabytes.” The buyer looked questioningly at the boy, “about 30 hours.” The boy said.

The buyer approached the table and turned on the small lamp beside them. The boy let out a gasp. “My God.” He whispered, as he stared speechless at the tramp buyer.

The buyer was rugged, scarred and unshaven; he almost looked like a tramp.

“Is your equipment ready?” the buyer asked.

The boy’s mouth was open before the sound came out. He nodded. Then said “Yes.”

The buyer sat down slowly opposite him and said quietly, “Start the tape.”

The boy put his Nokia phone on the table and pressed record.

“You weren’t always a tramp buyer, were you?” He began.

Keep Reading Here………….

We have been playing outside again, with our camera.

Here is a nice capture of a dragonfly in flight. This was taken on our Sony Ericsson K 750i phone. Not to bad really.

If we had tried this with our new Nokia N81 8gb phone you would only be able to see a blurred wall, it’s a nice phone but don’t use the camera, it sucks.

Same phone, same dragonfly.

Here are a couple of photos of flowers taken with the Canon IXUS 80is, we like this camera.

Another dragonfly, again withe the K750i.

A big green caterpillar, eating s a way of life for this big bugger, that’s all it does.

We still don’t know what this insect (above) is or what it does, but it looks cool!

The next picture isn’t macro but we like it, it was taken on the steps of a Temple in Hua Hin, Thailand, we wonder what he is thinking about?

As you may know, we have been playing our Canon IXUS 80 IS camera. We are still trying to figure out the time lapse settings so we can film for longer than 2 hours at a time.

But we have been playing with the digital macro settings, and here are some of the pictures.

A strange fly type insect, looks a bit furry

Some macro pictures of a red flower.

Another insect, but we think this one can sting.

Ants killing a little black & blue ladybird. Ants are evil.

The ants don’t like the paparazzi and send over the security to warn us off.

Hello all, well we have been spending a bit of time away from the office, and playing with our new camera.

We bought a Canon IXUS 80 IS, mainly because it fits in our pocket and has a great battery life, and we don’t mean the camera is stuffed into little cages with 276 other cameras and forced to lay eggs, we mean the battery lasts for a very long time.

Well after weeks of using the IXUS 80 IS and finding out it does not have an aperture priority mode or a sports function, we decided to read the manual, no really we read the book that comes in the box with the camera.

And we found “Time Lapse”

Link Time Lapse Photography


If you switch to video mode, and press function, you can then scroll across the bottom of the screen and select Time Lapse. You then have the option of 1 or 2 seconds between each frame.

Here is a very short time lapse of a cigarette burning, (sorry can not embed YouTube into this blog)

Click Here to view the video

We were always fascinated by the Peter Greenaway movie, Zoo: A Zed and Two Noughts. Which featured lots of time lapse photography (Trailer Here), mainly of decomposing animals, it’s a very strange and quite disturbing movie, we think the time lapse photography was created by Sacha Vierny.

We are going to play around more with the settings, but at the moment we are limited to two hours of time lapse at a time, until we can figure out a way to over ride the settings, if anyone knows then let us know please.

It also works with macro turned on. Sweet