The Saints are marching!

I haven't mentioned footie lately! Southampton have take 10 from the last 12 points available and are now only 2 points off the play-off places. Early days yet but the new manager has got the team playing a different style of football. I'm not exaggerating when I say that watching them yesterday was like watching Arsenal at their passing best. No more long balls - everything played across the back four with full-backs and wide mid-fielders hugging the touch line.

Richard Chaplow's arrival on loan has given a different attacking option from mid-field. Guly looks to have the making of a really great player. The defence looks solid and again we kept a clean sheet.

I think we had the biggest crowd of the day yesterday - just over 19,000 including a couple of hundred of Tranmere's faithful. Last Saturday we had the 4th biggest crowd - including Premier League games!

The Saints are definitely marching. Good times.

COYR

The Social Network - At Cinemas October 15

The Social Network - At Cinemas October 15

Here's my review from the Sony Pictures site. a full review will be posted on my movie blog.

Gripping and compelling narrative with convincing characterisation. The way the film is shot cutting between the two legal depositions and the ongoing story is masterfully done.

A great piece of PR for Harvard - who wouldn't want to study there?

the film depict Zuckerberg's genius brilliantly. His struggle to relate to people appropriately is brilliantly portrayed. The moral messiness of creativity at work is captured in the disputes and relationships that wax and wane. It's great that Zuckerberg retains a grip of his humanity and the films ends in the way it does. there is hope!

A frustrating evening!

Tonight's judge was without doubt a competent photographer and many of his comments were very helpful. However, as an ARPS he is no doubt used to moving in higher circles than our humble little club. He spent most of the first half of the evening critiquing the quality of the mounts people had chosen or the quality of the mounting itself. It would have been so much more helpful if he'd spent as much time sharing his undoubted wisdom about the actual photos!

I was quite perturbed by many of his comments so when he came to comment on my single entry I was braced for a full onslaught! True to form, he did not like the colour of the mount I had chosen. The truth is, when I hurriedly came to select and print off a photo last night for the competition, it was the only colour of mount I had! I know that I also rushed the cutting of the aperture and parts of it are not acceptable - but he had obviously detected we were all getting a bit fed up with comments about mounts and he didn't mention it!

Instead, he waxed lyrical about the compositional qualities of my entry and ended up giving it 2nd place! Wow. It's a good feeling. Afterwards, some other club members were quick to come up and say how much they liked the colour of the mount and how they felt that anything different would have negatively impacted its presentation. There you go. What do I know?

Here's the photo:

At anchor

Pictures at an exhibition

For the first time ever, one of my photos is being exhibited! Feels good. The exhibition is on for this week only at the Winchester Discovery Centre hanging on the way by the IT suites. The exhibition is of work by members of the Wonston and Worthies Camera Club.

Mine is the second one from the left - a stylish shot of a TGV in Zurich station. Tonight just happens to be camera club evening and I hope to enter 2 pictures in a competition. It's just for fun - I'm not expecting to win anything! I'll let you know.