About Me
I live in the beautiful city of York, England with my gorgeous wife, beautiful daughter and two wonderful cats. I’m in my early forties and work as a self-employed personal trainer.
I really love exercise and am a very keen triathlete and middle distance runner, and am completing training for a number of races this season. I also love listening to loads of music and a bit of reading when there’s time; you can see more information on some of my favourites under the Inspiration section.
So what about the photos and the site then?
This is a renewed venture for me after many years without a camera; I started taking pictures when I was at school, but stopped in my mid-twenties. I enjoy the whole thing of photography and am really just experimenting again. So what you find here is purely amateur doodling for my own amusement - if you enjoy them, then that’s a bonus!
For those of you interested in the equipment and software, I use the following kit:
Nikon- This brand is highly reliable and very tough, although it certainly isn’t the cheapest on the market. My camera bag includes a Nikon D70 with three Nikon lenses (18-70mm zoom, 70-300mm zoom and 60mm Micro (Macro)), which all of these pictures have been taken with.
Manfrotto- Again, this brand is highly reliable and very tough, I own a 190PRO tripod, which is lightweight enough to lug about and yet still sturdy.
WordPress- This is a fantastic piece of blogging software that is Open Source (ie, contributed to by many, many designers and free). I am currently using version 2.5 with a number of additional plugins, including:
Random File (version 1.0) for the random quote; thanks to Scott Reilly
CQS (version 2.7) for the custom posts per page; thanks to Matt Read
Spam Karma (version 2.3) for eradicating spam comments; thanks to Dr Dave
WordPress Database Backup (version 2.1.5); thanks to Austin Matzko
IImage Browser (version 1.5.2) for uploading images to the site; thanks to Malyfred
Panic Coda- This is the software I use for hand coding of CSS and XHTML. This is an excellent piece of engineering, rolling a text editor, CSS editor and FTP uploading all in to one, thereby really improving my workflow.
Adobe Fireworks- This is the software I use for image manipulation. I tend not to undertake much post-processing of images, preferring to see if I can get the image I want straight from the camera.
Apple- And this is all lovingly put together using the remarkable and highly reliable hardware and software from Apple.
Why “Extrajection”?
extrajection n 1. the symbolic representation of a psychic process or feeling as, for example, writing a poem about anger. 2. (psychoanalysis) defence mechanism consisting of the projection of one’s own feelings, characteristics or processes onto another person.
Origin: L. Ex, out of, + jacio, to cast.
Random Quote
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done.
Peter Ustinov
English actor and author (1921 - 2004)
