Leigh :) Stark

Category: Photography

  • SackBoy reaches page one on Google!

    Possibly one of the more randomly proud moments of my little project’s life is the knowledge that in under a year I’ve hit the first page of Google for the search term “sackboy”.

    With just under 500 images in the photography project (seriously, 500th image anniversary coming up in June!), I’ve hit well over the original target of “an image a day for the next year”. It hasn’t even been a year yet. It’ll be a year in August sometime.

    And now, the random news that I place fourth on a Google search for “sackboy”.

    The ridiculous thing? I’m even above Media Molecule’s entry on that page, and they made the bloody game!

    Apologies to Media Molecule if they’re at all offended by this. I run this project to spread smiles and laughter since SackBoy seems to make people smile. :)

    Check out the SackBoy Lives Here project at www.sackboyliveshere.com

  • Sky Blue, 2008

    A few years ago, I tried a technique that I called "Sky Black" (the series was named "Black the Sky") that made the sky look fierce, ominous, and a whole bunch of other words that my word-obsessed self is normally obsessed with.

    Now, I'm trying it in colour using some different processing techniques…


    Click the image to see it bigger!

    More after the break. Tell me what you think of my concept…

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  • More music photography coming: Ruthie Foster

    I've just come from a great gig… better than great… at The Basement.

    Someone whom I've liked since I first heard played: Ruthie Foster. I'm heading to bed now, but here's an image to salivate those… err… saliva glands.


    Click the image to see the phenomenal Ruthie Foster appear in a larger image that I shot tonight (the same image… but bigger)!

  • My apologies to those who want Incubus sans watermarks

    Apologies to all who wanted to see my Incubus shots without watermarks.

    I found some dickheads on another forum or two linking to my images directly without mentioning or commenting to me and I decided to take some sort of action on my images. I will be re-linking to ones with smaller watermarks in a few days just as I'll also be blogging the other As Tall As Lion & Dear Hunter gig, but give me a few days.

    It really irritates me when people do shit like this. I've got no problem with others linking to my images and showing them, but a link back to me or a mention of who shot them and their page would be nice. That way people can say "great shots!" or "sweet" and what-not and it can actually be directed me… the guy who did the work on the photos.

    But nooooo…. people have to go and be dicks about things.

    Shit, I don't make money out of my images. All I ask for is a bit of credit.