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  • Bradley Wiggins

    Bradley Wiggins

    Bradley Wiggins visited Barnoldswick, back in mid-August. Although I’m not a huge sports fan, I took the opportunity to photograph the man himself, as well as hundreds of other cyclists that had joined him for a tour round the Pendle countryside. He was launching his Bradley Wiggins Foundation with the Ride with Brad event in his first post-Olympic public appearance.

     

    I’m not a professional photographer, so I took the chance to shoot the bikes in motion – happy to have some motion blur and capture the speed rather than a crisp shot of the rider. I’m pretty happy with my shot of Bradley, but what made me really smile was the guy that followed him…

    In fact, the guy that had flown all the way from America to cycle with his hero.

  • AC Telfer at Hay 2012

    AC Telfer at Hay 2012

    The wonderful work of AC Telfer is on exhibition at Shepherds Ice Cream Parlour in Hay on Wye.

    You can find out more about her work at actelfer.co.uk – a site designed right here at gingerjam.

  • Pendle Youth Choir website II

    Pendle Youth Choir website II

    The original Pendle Youth Choir website was an early attempt at a wordpress theme, and I’ve wanted to tweak and change it ever since. Recent decisions about the choir’s logo and promotion of the children’s choir on par with the youth choir gave me the opportunity of a revamp. AC Telfer and I had recently taken some good photos and video of the choir in action, so everything was in place to give the site a makeover. As with most sites I’m working on at the moment, Pende Youth Choir uses twitter’s bootstrap as a foundation. This means the site has a responsive layout, which adapts to the browser window. Elements like the logo and search bar are swapped out on mobile devices: the logo is replaced for a version that works on two lines and the search gets repositioned to stay with the rest of the navigation.

    The new Pendle Youth Choir logo works well on a white or black background. For the website I went for a dark background, it really lets the colours sing out and the new video content sits well on black. The choir’s calendar is now split between public performances, in the sidebar and on the diary page, and information for members. I’d previously used an events plug in, but now I’m using bespoke code and custom post types for more control.

  • Effervescent

    Effervescent

    What a lovely word of the week effervescent is. It just bubbles and laughs like a giddy young lady floating through life with glass of champagne and bright ginger hair. I feel like this is very close to what I had in mind when thinking about effervescent.

    Big shout out to Josh at Rhode Island for supplying the word, without hesitation and with no knowledge of what I was asking, when asked what the word of the week should be.