I recently submitted a photo to the guardian’s ‘your photos’ section and was lucky enough to be selected to appear in Aprils gallery.

Obviously I’m pretty chuffed about the whole thing, being shown along side other photographers who’s work I admire is a major achievement as far as I’m concerned. Its encouraged me to carry on taking photos and improve the things I do and while its not fame and fortune just yet but it is some form of recognition and that’s never a bad thing.

For those who’ve not already found it, heres my Flickr Photostream which is where I’m posting any photos I feel are any good. (family stuff and general messing about type photos are kept either in the ‘photos’ section of this site or on Facebook.).

I recently found ‘I ♥ Faces‘ and decided to enter this weeks contest with a photo of Kai. He’s not often in a photographic mood and tends not to pose for the camera, so I was really pleased to capture him being himself for once!

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I took Kai to the Tanfield Railway today, its only about 15min drive from my house but I didn’t know it even existed until last weekend. They run two steam trains on sundays, one pulling (from what I could tell) empty trucks and the other pulling coaches which you can go for a short ride in along side the funny mixture of train spotters, families and tabacco-stained beardy men…

Kai really enjoied himself, lots of grins and shouts of ‘Thomas!’ although I think he was a little disappointed the train didn’t *actually* have a face.

There was a brass band playing in one of the sheds, which they’ve got done out like a mini exhibition hall (more beardies) but Kai was obviously feeling the need to get his grove on!

Halo 3’s been out for some time now and one of the more interesting new additions is the ability to take screenshots from match replays. The new game engine really does look spectacular, from the ‘bloom’ generated by explosions and weapons fire to the reflections on the player models, it all lends itself perfectly to some really nice action shots which you can download via your account with bungie.net.

But how do you make the most of the screenshot feature to get that perfect picture? read on!

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