Author Archives: MarkT

I often wondered why my photograph taken in the museum at Leeds generated so many hits with little promotion, then I received an email a couple of days ago. The email asked for my photos that had been on interestingness to be posted to a pool, which got me thinking.

When I got home I checked the calendar in flickr and there it was on the 1st of March. I’m well chuffed, though I wish I had known at the time – I could have really hammed it up!. Maybe the flickr system could automatically add a tag to your photos or send a mail telling you that you have been featured.

I took this photo in an alley near Kings Cross. I felt rather ill when post processing this one.

I noticed the alley when I was out for lunch, I grabbed my camera and headed back. My initial photograph was to be of a plinth that has “Hold me” sprayed on it. I ventured into the alley and was immediately hit by a terrible smell of urine. I saw this grafitti and decided to head down and shoot it. I had my ipod on at the time and saw a guy gesturing to me, I was a little aprehesive as I was bring approached by a guy wildly waving his arms. I took off my headphones and said “hello”. The guy says “watch where you are standing mate.”

I was stood in human excrement.

It will stay with me forever……

So what’s your worst photography experience?