2006-09-17T10:56:48Z tag:my-expressions.com,2006:179815 2006-09-17T10:56:40Z 2006-09-17T10:56:40Z deansherwood This is the end folks. My diary is closing today. I will keep in touch with you all, and I will update you all via email when I have the portfolio up and running. I wish you all well, it's been nice.

Please can the last one out switch off the lights...
The candle will keep burning.]]> tag:my-expressions.com,2006:179663 2006-09-16T15:40:05Z 2006-09-16T15:40:05Z deansherwood The re-touching is over! Hooorahhhhh!

Spent all day re-touching, re-masking, re-saving, re-editing, re-naming... and the above music station has got me through it. No caffeine needed, just tunes that make the heart keep pumping and the blood flowing... Possibly heard my favourite lyric of all time ... 'The woman does not speak, she knows the silence will speak for her.' That is one of the truest lyrics i've ever heard. Brilliant.

Went into the new Next store with Mum to see 'What's it all aboot then?' and it's pretty good. Nice mens section, good home section where I picked up a few bits for my bedroom and so on... I've suddenly hit a stage where I want to change everything in my room, it's currently looking a bit like a hotel room, which is good, though I don't have the tea/coffee making facilities or a biscuit or a trouser press or an iron or a spare pillow and blanket or a yellow pages or a local area guide or the one solitary stain on the carpet or creased bedsheets or the option to leave towels on the bathroom floor and they get taken away replaced and cleaned (damn that would be good though) . Maybe it's nothing like a hotel room then after all.

Chow for now amigos, re-dean!]]> tag:my-expressions.com,2006:179611 2006-09-16T08:31:30Z 2006-09-16T08:31:30Z deansherwood Before and After

Literally had to turn off the laptop when I couldn't re-focus my eyes after they kept losing focus. I think I almost invented triple vision last night. Big shout out to Gifton at Burnley FC, you the man Gift. ]]> tag:my-expressions.com,2006:179540 2006-09-15T18:29:13Z 2006-09-15T18:29:13Z deansherwood I'm going to be seeing a lot of my room this weekend. I like to sit on my bed, music on and re-touch. It's quite new to me to be 'photoshopping' portraits. Normally I leave the 'model' style look to others. But Laura and Jan's photo's will be a first in that department. I'm guessing it will take me about six hours to prepare eight photographs for print. In the middle of that the glory hornet boys are on Sky Sports.

Today was a good day. Much better than yesterday. I hope you all have nice weekends, as you can see it's 7:08pm in good ol' England, let the weekend begin.]]> tag:my-expressions.com,2006:179374 2006-09-14T22:29:02Z 2006-09-14T22:29:02Z deansherwood I finished re-touching and proofing at 3am this morning. Got up at 7am and made myself some porridge with a nice glass of water followed closely by a pint of OJ. Decided I wanted to check out a possible location for a fashion shoot with Kerrie (local model) for both our portfolios. Willingham Woods is about a 30-minute drive and I sped down there early morning and walked..walked...walked... till I got so lost I couldn't even tell if I was in the same woods.

Eventually found my way out amongst the flies, spiders (huge!) and glorious shafts of light. It's a great location for any kind of shoot.

Work was pretty bad today. Got a telling off from Jade (see yesterday's entry) about (a) putting that photo up, (b) looking like death, not sleeping enough and having the most sporadic eating patterns possible and (c) for considering walking away from the biggest dream/wishes in my life. She may only be 3'6' (slight exageration) but she sure packs a punch!

Got home to watch my recording of the new Extras series to find it hadn't recorded properly and to top it off, I was in in time to watch it, I just thought i'd get a few jobs done seeing as 'it's recording anyway.'

My shots from today are posted on my Flickr.

Here's hoping for a better day tomorrow.]]> tag:my-expressions.com,2006:178977 2006-09-13T18:37:49Z 2006-09-13T18:37:49Z deansherwood Hi Jade, kill me if you can catch me :)
Yesterday, I got Flak'd]]> tag:my-expressions.com,2006:178750 2006-09-12T19:31:17Z 2006-09-12T19:31:17Z deansherwood Notes on the image: I'm not trying to win an award with this one, though I was breaking the law, driving at 85mph whilst taking a photograph at 2300hrs last night. I love the buzz from driving fast. I'm naughty I know :)

Had an 'interesting' day today. First day back to the 'office job' and it wasn't at all as I expected. I got pretty much 'trapped' in the upstairs office. It's like a 100 degrees C up there, and the job I was getting done up there was very very hot too. Safe to say i've had a nice cooling shower and i'm feeling refreshed and ready for tomorrow.

Time to check on my emails from the day, listen to the rest of Episode 4 of the 3rd series of The Ricky Gervais Podcast and hopefully grab a glass of Argento Red whilst I read my magazine.

If you're bored and you'd like to look at some cool videos online, check out these favourites of mine:

1. Boris J forgets which sport he's playing
2. Kids swearing in VW banned bollocks tv commercial
3. You might not like Cricket, you may not understand it, but this is KP bowling Harbhajan Singh and showing a little unsporting behaviour!
4. JH freestyles...this is how I felt today]]> tag:my-expressions.com,2006:178511 2006-09-11T15:50:47Z 2006-09-11T15:50:47Z deansherwood Lunch was very nice today. I discovered I can still cook :)]]> tag:my-expressions.com,2006:178434 2006-09-11T08:10:24Z 2006-09-11T08:10:24Z deansherwood Apologies for the slight site changes; I had reports of people having trouble with some of the fonts.

My money's on the dude in the helmet. I've just totalled up my expense sheet for going down the 'weddings' route. £2,278 worth of equipment to go! Is there anybody out there using a mac who could
send me a CS2 copy so I can 'try it out'. I'll return a signed photo of your choice for your troubles if you do. Thanks.

Just spoke to nan on the phone, she said this...

'Me come to England poor and broke,
Go down dole see labour bloke,
Fill in form stand around,
Kind man give me plenty pound.

Me thank him very much, then he say,
You come next week, get more pay.
Me write letter to Pakistan,
Tell all friends 'Come quick as can!'.

All is nicely settled down,
Nice big house in Grimsby Town,
Twenty families living up,
Twice as many living down.

More in garden, in a tent,
Social service pay the rent.
Six months later, big bank roll,
Go down labour, draw more dole.

Wife wants glasses, teeth and pills,
All is free, me get no bills,
Me think England 'Dam fine place',
Much to nice for England race.

God bless white man, big and small,
He pays plenty to keep us all,
If you don't like the coloured man,
Plenty space in Pakistan.'

Thanks Nan! You're the best!

Listening to Bring it on Home to me - Sam Cooke]]> tag:my-expressions.com,2006:178252 2006-09-10T13:19:04Z 2006-09-10T13:19:04Z deansherwood Took Craig (my brother) to meet our Grandparents in Boston. It's our half-way point as they live near Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. It's a strange journey. Littered with death tolls on roads, dead animals plastered to the road, tractors, lorries and lots of green. I like the countryside. Even though i'm a city boy, I would love to live in the 'sticks'. To own a farm, convert barns into studios, have a few tractors to mess around in... One day. I've got 60 photo's to re-touch for The Favourites, could be up all night. I have a selection of red bull and coffee awaiting.

Though I must digress. I have a night of TV planned ahead. 7pm - The Match (its back,Sky One), 8pm - Robbie on the Road (Sky Two), 9pm til 1030pm (Little Britain, Catherine Tait Show & I'm with Stupid). Then I may consider getting back to the re-touching...though it's more likely i'll consider how to get me a life! Maybe i'll have a look in the NEXT catalogue.

Oh, pet hate before I go. Don't you just dislike queing for your money at a cash point. I was there today, waiting to see what I didn't have. Old lady in front of me asked if I could check her balance for her, so I pushed her over :)]]>