Pretzel Logic
Hmmm....strange weekend. I (well we...) went to Birmingham. For me it was the first time since 1972. For the rest of 'em it was the first time.It was great. The architecture in the heart of the city is beautiful. Well done Joseph Chamberlain (Neville's Dad or Grandad or Uncle or some other significant other.) The last time I went it was a dump. Mind you so was Manchester at the time. Concrete concrete and more concrete. Having said that, so was most of the rest of Post-war Britain. A housing shortage, an exotic (Bauhaus) view of the future and a climate geared up to anything but = disaster. Cue Hulme.
It really is a stunning transformation. Birmngham shone and we enjoyed ourselves thoroughly.
We actually went to see Seth Lakeman and Tunng at the the wonderful Birmingham Town Hall, which is basically a copy of the Parthenon. It sits on a hillock as well.
We had seats on the front row. In the middle - more or less. Ha! I was snapping away because I had read the small print and I knew there was no restriction on photography. The support acts came on and I took piccies with no problem. Seth Lakeman came on and after the first number a security guard came up to me and said "no flash photography"
"I haven't flashed" I replied (I hate it btw. ).
"Are you sure?" She said.
"Errrrrmmmm yes" I replied as flash bulbs that would never illuminate the stage lit her face up from angles she would've wished they hadn't had she seen the results, and all of them from rows behind me.
She was perplexed.
She looked at my camera (a DSLR) and I made out it had no flash on it. It does but it's cleverly hidden and is generally crap anyway.
So, faced with the fact that is obviously not me taking FLASH PHOTOGRAPHS with my fancy camera from the first row, she retreated with decorum saying "don't take too many pictures."
So I took hundreds.
Most were either a)crap or b)repetitive though, so here are a few as opposed to all. There's a couple with no link to Birmingham at all also.
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That's all folks!
