Its been probably about 4 years since I bought this domain to showcase my work. Since then it has seen many many different designs and permutations, all brilliant in their own ways. I sincerely apologise to those generous enough to help design a site for me, only for me to change my mind and not use it. I have realised I am a very fickle about designs, hence this plain white design. This way, I have nothing to pick on!

Please feel free to offer any critique, leave a comment or put an entry in the guestbook. I hope my work is up to scratch. I will continue to work hard and persevere to produce music that hopefully, will move people and maybe even make a little difference in the world.

suki

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Recently, everybody around me has been getting excited about photography. Maybe its a shift in technological advances which have made cameras, or more specifically, digital SLRs more accessible to the general layman or amatuer photographer. Its seems almost everyone is into or has been into at one point, photography. Be it in the form of old 35mm SLRs, the more avant-garde 'lomo' trend or the more recent digital SLRs.

During my archi days I used to lug around my pop's old manual Canon SLR form the seventies. It had two lenses. A standard fixed 55mm lens and a 150mm telephoto/macro lens. It weighed a ton. But I managed to drag that thing (with a tripod) around Italy, Switzerland, the US, France, The Netherlands, Japan and other countries. I also used it to take more abstract/sexy shots of architectural models with all kinds of lighting, long exposures, model scopes etc...

So, after being inspired by some of my friend's excellent photos and the fact that nearly everyone around me had already purchased a digital SLR, I decided the take the plunge. I got myself a great deal on a Nikon D40, which has come highly recommended. Lets hope my renewed interest actually produces some worthwhile results and doesn't dissolve into another short-lived and ill-conceived fad. Watch this space for potentially useless photos of my own feet, the sky, my bike, my mum etc etc...

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One of my best mates and I are planning a couple of weeks touring and camping around europe in september. So, for a test run, we decided to ride out to somewhere in the UK and camp for a few days. Initially, I suggested the John O' Groats to Lands End run, but unfortunately, time restraints meant that I will probably have to conquer that on my own one day. So we eventually decided to ride up to Snowdonia in north Wales as we've heard theres some great biking roads up there, and the scenery is some of the most stunning in the UK.

That said, we were not disappointed. The highlight of the ride was negotiating the single country lanes lined by waist height welsh slate field walls, flanked either side by the beautiful and grand snowdon mountains enveloped in a fine mist. It was truly breathtaking, so much so, that it made it difficult to concentrate on the roads, thus resulting in one or two hairy moments! Being on a motorbike, your senses are heightened. You can feel the speed in the wind, smell the aroma of the native foliage, hear the air rushing past your ears; you can sense the change in temperature and experience every little bit of relief in the roads. There not another feeling like it. Unlike being in a car or a train, you're connected to the surroundings. Its why bikers do what they do.

Of course, being a 'control' experiment trip, we naturally came across a few obstacles. After about 10 mins on the motorway, we both realised the two-way radios we had borrowed were useless. Our waterpoof boots were in fact made of sponge and my battery kaput! The most memorable incident was when Dan's alarm fob stopped working (resulting in bike being immobilsed) and then the same thing happening to mine the very next day! Theres a short video at the point of realisation with a synchronised look of 'fuck' from both of us.

Other than the fantastic scenery, some of the people we met along the way were great too. I guess people take kindly to a pair of travelling motorcyclists. They're usually curious about where we'd come from, where we were heading and why the hell are we riding in the rain. I must admit, we were the only bikers that were camping. I assume all the others that we'd met along the way were smart enough to stay in hotels and B&Bs. (as Dan emphasised repeatedly)

It was good to be away from the city for a bit. There was no mobile phone reception in the valleys, which in a way sealed the fact that we were somewhat detached from civilisation. We had no internet. The village post offices were someone's front room, and people were 'friendly'. They waved and everything. It wasn't until the last day when I came across a telly, that I realised that during our trip, the rest of the UK had seen the some of the heaveist downpours and floods in recent decades. We came back to the tune of 'you guys chose the worst time to do the trip!'. But in my opinion, it was the perfect time.

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A good friend of mine back from the architecture days has recently bought a house in cambridge with his wife of 2 years. It had been a while since wehad seen each other, so while the weather was still good, a buddy and I decided to ride up to cambridge to visit their new love nest.

We walked around looking at buildings old and new, picked cherries from the trees and jammed a few tunes on the guitar. Cambridge is a beautiful place; rich with history, tradition and rustic character. What spoilt it was the huge crowds of tourists and every other git with a sign asking if you would like to go 'punting'. Although it was not enough to spoil the time we had there and seeing Tony and Emily happily building a life together.

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