A Photo I am Proud Of

I follow quite a few Twitters who blog, many of them are mummy blogs, I suppose this is to be expected when you are of my age, you tend to follow people your own age and most people I know are busy raising families, unlike me, I'd rather be living my own life than raising someone else. Anyhow...

Each Wednesday many of these cool bloggers have a photo post entitled The Gallery, I'm sure it has many rules and regulations which I have no idea about, but this weeks topic was an interesting one I felt. A photo that you are proud of.

It got me thinking about many of the photos in my collection, which one would I choose? So I diligently scoured through all of my photos trying to pick out a photo I like. It's much harder than you think. I kept thinking this is the one, then I'd stumble across another.

So rather than post just one like they all have, I'm going to post a few with the reasons, then choose an overall winner.

Here goes.

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Happier Days

I know, you are all thinking "Bloody hell, that's KoA with two naked ladies!"

Well, yes it is. It's possibly the only photo of me where I'm actually really smiling and not pulling a silly face.

It was also at a time of my life when I was very happy, I was running a busy town centre pub and nightclub at the time and such evenings were a regular occurrence.

I suppose this is almost every man's dream, two naked women sitting on your lap. Bit tacky and unbecoming for someone of my moral stature, but you know, a man has to do what a man has to do!

Besides, who could refuse having a boob that size stuck in your face?

I did have a slight panic moment when they sat down on me though, I didn't know what to do with my hands, you know how it is, are you allowed to touch porn stars? Will their bodyguards who were carrying guns get annoyed if I made the most of the moment?

I eventually decided to just go with the flow. :D

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Bungeeeee!

The second one was taken by an old workmate of mine. That's me about 200ft in the air, desperately trying to keep the shit from leaving my rectum. And before you ask, yes, I did manage to keep myself unsoiled.

It's possibly the most scary thing I have ever done, much worse than the car crash that left my car a total mess, much worse than stopping a twenty man pub brawl, even scarier than meeting your new girlfriends parents!

Why on earth did I do it? It was for charity mate!

That word, charity, makes people sit in a bath of beans for hours on end, it even made me, someone who is not comfortable with heights, jump out of a perfectly good cage on top of a towering crane with nothing more below me than asphalt. Stupid stupid stupid!

Never again I say, I still have nightmares about it. Although I did raise over five hundred pounds for a charity that looks after parents with children with liver problems, which is a cause that is close to my heart.

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Sunrise

The third is a photo taken by me, last year I believe. This is a view from my garden, well, when I say view, it's what you can see through the gap inbetween the houses scattered all around me, and when I say garden, I mean the patch of weeds that demands strimming a couple of times a year.

I love the colours and the atmosphere I managed to capture here. From memory this was very early on an Autumn morning, I have no idea what I was doing up and about at 5am, I most likely needed a pee in the night and saw what was going on outside and grabbed the camera.

What is most amazing is that is turned out pretty cool looking, even though I was most likely half asleep and hungover. You simply cannot keep the creative side of me down :P

I will admit that I have enhanced it slightly with Photoshop, but not much, only burning in the furthest horizon a little more to bring out the tree line.

I like it, that is all.

On to number four..

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Punk

Taken by my ex, I rather like this look on me. "Is that you KoA?" I hear you ask, yes it is. 

A bit of fun on Christmas Day a few years ago, I'd had a few beers, then decided that a mohawk would be a good idea, so my good friend Lorna and my ex set to work.

I was already growing the facial hair to scare my mum for when I visited for Christmas, the end result made sure that a small cardiac arrest was achieved.

I'm considering having it done again, I rather enjoyed the attention it brought, plus a lot of people feel intimidated by it all, which is a good thing in my book, you certainly don't want too many people hovering around you all the time.

So, the winner is?

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Lil'chick

This little effort by me a few years ago.

A newborn chick, newly fallen from its nest looking for an escape.

It's not a fantastic photo by a long shot, but I like it, even more so considering I was about 20ft away using 10x digital zoom on top of the 10x optical.

It surprisingly turned out sharp enough to see the uncertainty in the birds eyes.

Well, there you go. I hope you like them as much as I do. If not, you can leave nasty comments for me instead :D

More Exposure

I know what you are thinking, he's got his willy out again! Nope. well, not this time anyway.
I have decided to post my blog entries over four different services, namely Wordpress, Blogger, Vox and Tumblr. All the posts will be identical, so there is no need to go hunting down these blogs, I just wanted to spread my wings a little.

Having already lost much of my writing due to uncertainties at other blogging platforms, i.e. Modblog & EFX2, and having heard some disquieting roumors about Vox, I thought I'd hedge my bets with more than just one service.
Luckily Wordpress allows you to import all of your old posts and comments from Vox, so I now have a duplicate blog over there, Blogger and Tumblr are just another couple of back-ups for my future posts, but since I now have a few friends that blog at those services it will make it easier for us to follow each other.

So, in order to make this transition easier I hunted around for a blogging client that had the ability to multicast onto different blog services simultaneously, this was much harder to achieve than you think as all the programs I trialled don't offer this feature! Rather odd when you think about it, I know quite a few people who have blogs with different services and such a client would be a godsend, it would at least save a lot of bother with copy and paste.
So I have finally settled with MarsEdit, although I cant multicast I can at least click a couple of buttons and it more or less does the same thing. So it saves me from having to visit four different sites and having to manually paste in a post :D



Here's a picture, because I wanted to test out the media uploader :D

Don't worry, I won't be leaving Vox any time soon though, I much prefer the community aspect of blogging over here, plus I'm used to things being the way they are and I hate too much change in one go. Plus I love the amount of dictatorial control I have over here.

For those of you who are complete OCD about links, here are the links to all my blogs. But regardless of where I am, I will always have my domain http://www.kingofankh.co.uk/ that will always point you towards my main blog.

http://kingofankh.tumblr.com/

http://kingofankh.wordpress.com/

http://kingofankh.blogspot.com/

http://kingofankh.vox.com/

So, here goes, my first post from MarsEdit to various platforms, I hope it goes well.