Sam Hardacre (Page 10)

Project closed

I'm really sorry to say but my 52 weeks 52 works project has died a lonely death. It lasted only 6 weeks until I ran into trouble marking out the time required to produce the kind of work I want. There would now be too much back-tracking to

Cyclist and paint

Took a few shots on my walk home. Not saying these are amazing but most I took were pretty dire, I just liked these ones out of the bunch.

HuddsDigitals, March 2012

Another great evening in Huddersfield. Lots of talk of Git and Canvas.

Sunny March

Went for a little wander after work. Saw some boats, some old blokes chatting whilst catching some rays and my brother with a pizza.

To and fro

Walking around Sowerby Bridge to and from work. Some shots I like, some aren't too cracking but take the rough with the smooth I suppose.

Character buildings

Since the weather was so fine and Luisa was visiting a friend in York I decided to take my Nikon for a walk in town. I decided to focus on some of the buildings dotted around Halifax which have some interesting or distinctive features. I took a couple of extra

First day with Nikon 1

My new Nikon 1 arrived just in time for the weekend. I've taken it everywhere with me so far and it's holding up really well. Producing clear shots and handles varying lighting conditions really well. Here are just a few from Friday and yesterday.

Downgrading gear

I've been thinking about this for quite some time and will likely result in many messages calling me a twonk but... I'm thinking of selling my Canon gear. I've been reflecting on how I shoot and why I've not been taking my

No pushing

This morning saw Twitter going a but mental for the release of the popular desktop email client Sparrow's iPhone app. I tried the desktop version a long time ago, and found it didn't quite have the features I was looking for but looking again at it

Final day

Our final day in Paris and we had nothing planned other than a river tour. We headed out of the hotel around 11 and made our way to Pont de l'Alma where the boat tour casts off. The tour took us from the Eiffel Tower down river, passing

Headstones, scammers and artists

By some amazing gift of foresight, our plans for Thursday involved less amounts of strenuous walking. We left the hotel between 10 and 11, heading towards the East end of Paris where Père Lachaise is situated. It's the largest cemetery in Paris and is the resting place of

Wet Wednesday

Yesterday morning started much like the previous day. We got up, got ready and went for breakfast then headed out for the day. First on our list was the Louvre. We first tried to enter through what appeared to be a gate on the Eastern end of the building but

First day in Paris

It's 8:24 local time here in Paris and I've just woken up. I'm pretty much sore everywhere after our afternoon walking around but just wanted to jot a few things here, mainly as a reminder to myself because I have a memory like

Le deuxieme jour

We're just about done with day two. Right now we're relaxing for a while before we go out to get some sushi from up the street. Before we do I'm going to write up our day... After a busy first day, we rested a

Honeymoon begins

First leg of the honeymoon sees us heading to Kent to stay with Luisa's Mum for a few days then Monday morning we'll be heading to St. Pancras, then Paris!

Distilling inspiration

Earlier this week I saw a few friends tweeting links to a site called Made By Hand [http://thisismadebyhand.com/], a really great site showing short films about people talking about the work they do. Aside from the films being beautifully made, the subjects themselves I find fascinating and incredibly

Ready for Paris

We've pretty much packed all our stuff, save a few final items. We've got our tickets, passports and all that jazz and now... we have a travel journal. I figured this is our first holiday as a married couple so it'd be cool to

Altering my backend

Those of you with keen eyes will have noticed a few subtle changes have taken place. Those with even keener eyes will see the source code is different giving a big clue about the biggest change that has taken place... I've moved over to WordPress. For years I&

Supermarket rant

Like most people, we go shopping every week to buy food and other groceries. We dodge trolleys, kids running around and all that other fun stuff that makes weekend shopping a joy. Even though my mind is already overpowered by the immense excitement of choosing the best looking rotisserie chicken,

The Phantom what?

I'm almost afraid to write this in case I get lynched but here goes... I went to see The Phantom Menace in 3D. Before you get on with the lynching, I just want to say that I'd be the first to agree with someone when they

Responsive Web Design

nomenclature

This morning has seen some lively debate in regard to few examples of so-called responsive text. I'm not going to discuss my issues with it from a practical point of view as most people on Twitter seem to agree with me anyway and James wrote [http://www.welcomebrand.

True Grit

Six weeks down, fourty-six to go! This week's piece was infulenced by our recent viewing of the Coen brother's take on True Grit (definitely worth a viewing or three). I hadn't really intended on doing a portrait of Jeff Bridges but I thought it&

Unfinished study

I think I'm starting to get into the swing of things with this project now. I'm drawing more regularly and starting to push myself into learning skills I weren't expecting. Over the last two weeks, I've found myself becoming more keen to

Chaplin

It's no secret that I'm a big fan of Charlie Chaplin and it was only a matter of time before he was the subject of one of these illustrations. To be quite honest, I'm surprised I left it this long and it's

Responsive Web Design

Responsive sketching

Yesterday I saw a few people linking to a sketchbook designed for doodling responsive design ideas, a pretty nice book to be fair but I find the idea of paying for a sketchbook for a single purpose very strange. Of course it is nice to be organised and keep all