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Shoot Tokyo: Setting up your shots

Dave Powell has a popular photography blog called ‘Shoot Tokyo’ and a book of the same name. In this video he explains his “Setting the stage’ technique which has made me rethink my own style of shooting or lack of it. I tend to keep walking and walking and shooting a lot, often shooting too much. I’m not sure if I have the patience to set things up quite like Dave, but having thought about this technique has made me stop for longer and look for longer than I usually do.

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Doctor Who S8E04: Listen

“What’s that in the mirror, or the corner of your eye? What’s that footstep following, but never passing by? Perhaps they’re not just waiting. Perhaps when we’re all dead, out they’ll come a-slithering from underneath the bed.”
— The Twelfth Doctor.

I tuned out of Who in the Matt Smith era, didn’t like the actor, the companions, the storytelling. This new season 8 has lured me back in, mostly through Peter Capaldi’s performance. He’s both scary and hilarious and endearing and rude and bonkers. Proper alien.