James Ots

Today I went back to my parents’ with another carfull of boxes. It should take another couple of trips I think to get all my stuff over there, and then I go to Canada on Wednesday morning. While I was there I took a load of photos in their garden. Here’s one.

As promised, I took my camera to work and took photographs during my lunch break. Here are three of them. The photos are taken around Arrow Valley Lake, and in case you can’t recognise the birds, they’re a Great Crested Grebe and a Mallard with her ducklings.

Only two entries in May and nothing so far in June? I really need to blog more often. After all, there must be hundreds of thousands of people who can’t wait to hear what I have to say next. I’ve just been rather busy recently though, as I’m going to be leaving the country next ...

Last night I did my first ever paid photography job – I took photographs of One Nation at the Warwick Uni Students Union. They were the support act for Gilles Peterson – a Radio One DJ who is really good at playing records apparently. He sounded pretty much like anyone else playing records to me. ...

On Monday we bottled our wine. We’ve called it a George Bernard Shaw 2006, because the vine in our back garden apparently came from a cutting from his garden, or something like that. Anyway, the wine has been fermenting for the last seven months, and we thought it was time to do the bottling. We ...

Yesterady I took my car to a garage in Southam to try and get the engine problem fixed. They changed the lambda sensor, but it still doesn’t accelerate properly at low revs. When I drive in the country I get plenty of power and it’s really fun to drive, but then when I get back ...

It’s a beautiful sunny Easter Monday, so I went out for a drive with my camera again. This time I ended up by Stretton Locks, so I stopped to take some more photos. In stereo, of course. And here are two of them. I took a whole load more, but these two look best in ...