Tuesday, 30 November 2010

INDUSTRIAL RUINS

Part of the remaining ruins of a smelt mill, high up in the Yorkshire Dales.

Old Gang Smelt Mill, The Yorkshire Dales, England.

From no specific project as such, 2009.

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Monday, 29 November 2010

MORE BEACH HUTS

Beach huts on the concrete promenade.

Whitby, North Yorkshire, England.

From my Traces from along the Edge Project, 2003-.

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Saturday, 27 November 2010

MULBERRY

A section of the circa 1944 Mulberry Harbour is depicted here close to the beach.

Arromanches, Normandy, France.

From my The Normandy Veterans - Lest We Forget Project, 1998-2002.

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Thursday, 25 November 2010

LEARNING TO FLY

A good old-fashioned photo montage.  Produced by just cutting out various relevant magazine images of 'flight and/or flying'.  Than fixing these to a piece of card (complete with limited use of letra set letters). For those of you who have not twigged yet what this image is all about, it's based on the title of a track/song from the great British Progressive Rock Band - Pink Floyd.

Kigston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, England.

From a City & Guilds 9231 module - Constructed Images, circa 1993-94.

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Wednesday, 24 November 2010

PADLOCK

A high contrast photographic image. Made by using lith photographic paper. Basically making a positive from a negative (in the truest sense of the word).

Old Warehouse Door, Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, England.

From a City & Guild 9231 module - Constructed Images, circa 1993-94.

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Tuesday, 23 November 2010

EXPRESS TRAIN DRIVER

Some wonderful shadows and reflections in this photograph.

Paragon Railway Station, Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, England.

From my Chasing Shadows Project, 1998.

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Monday, 22 November 2010

NOTICEBOARD

A WARNING

I have been off-line for a while. This was due to a virus that affected my computer. This particular virus is called Smit-Fraud. This happened whilst I was on a well-known social networking site. The site (that originates this scam) looks exactly like a Microsoft site (complete with logo, design and layout).

The message read: "Your system has been infected with multiple spyware programs. You should consider installing the necessary heuristic module to protect other computers, as well as your pc has repeatedly tried to infect other computers via Internet, and to send spam.  The fact of spamming can result in criminal prosecution, despite the fact you are the victim of malicious software. For the safety of your system it is essential for you to install the necessary heuristic module and perform a full scan of your computer to exterminate malicious programmes from it".

It even asks you for payment and your credit card details etc.  Apparently there is a lot of these bogus sites out there. It disabled all my drives, so that I could not remove it, or access the internet.  There is a very good local computer shop who sorted this problem out for me, cleaned my hard drive and told me about the problem.  I did not lose any important files (because all of these are not stored on my computers hard drive).

But it cost me (in more ways than one). It is high time IMO that a tougher stance was taken with those who hack, infect and send spam to innocent people. Apparently it is two young European based males who are competing with each other, who are the culprits causing computer users this particular trouble.

So please be aware of this scam. Check your pc security on a daily basis, and be careful what you click on and what applications you use.

Yours sincerely

Trevor David Betts
22 November 2010.

Thursday, 4 November 2010

PAINTING THE HULL III

Bi-annual cleaning and repainting of the hull and keel of the RNLI Humber Lifeboat.

Alexandra Docks, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England.

From my In the Wake of the Bow Project, 1995-96.

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