York Minster Photos Taken In 2012

I’m still catching up posting my photos, I took these back when I had an iPhone 4 and had just started playing about with taking photos with the HDR mode turned on. A lot of my early HDR shots ended up being blurred (my current Samsung Galaxy S3 does seem much more forgiving that regard), but did manage to get these that at least turned out viewable! :)

I’m going to try and get a lot more York Minster shots this year, hopefully in the sunshine if we actually get a summer in 2013!

York Minster
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Pink Sky Pylons

Pink Sky Pylons

I’m not very good at timing sunset skies and being in a position to take a half-decent photo, most of the time I either mis-time them completely, am busy driving somewhere or on days when I do make plans to photograph, they end up too cloudy or don’t look that great on camera.

Given all that, I thought I’d not done too badly getting this one! :)

What’s on Your Desk? There’s a Streetfighter On Mine!

Streetfighting on my desk

Who doesn’t have some kind of toy on their desk? What do you have on your’s?

Christmas Day – The Gift Of Epic Sky

Christmas Day - The Gift Of Epic Sky

Christmas Day – The Gift Of Epic Sky, a photo by SimonBarkerUK on Flickr.
Looking out across the garden on Christmas Day 2011, who needs snow?

The Map of Moss

The Map of Moss
The Map of Moss, a photo by SimonBarkerUK on Flickr.

Found a load of moss on some concrete, thought it looked kinda like a map! :)

Cloud-Man Reaching Across The Sun

Cloud Reaching Across The Sun
Clouds Obscuring Sun, a photo by SimonBarkerUK on Flickr.

A rare bunch of clouds on a very sunny, clear day in the summer of 2011…I don’t think we got any bright sunny days in 2012! ;)
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The Breaking of Dark Skies

I’m Simon Barker Too! – @SimonBarker87

The first line of a self-introduction is by far the hardest to write, so I will keep it short and sweet with: Hi, I’m a Simon Barker too! I’m quite glad Simon has created this “Are You Simon Barker?” section of his site and invited me to write for it, because whenever I do a vanity Google of myself to check nothing onerous has appeared, this is the website I always find. In some ways that is a good thing but, when people are trying to find me, it is definitely an issue.

I was born in 1987 in Clacton on Sea and since then I have migrated, via Sheffield for a spell at boarding school, up to Newcastle Upon Tyne for university. I managed to get a B.Eng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering tucked under my belt by the summer of 2008 and, at the time of the financial melt down, that autumn I was happily starting my PhD in the same topic. I would love to say that it was fantastic foresight of mine to avoid trying to get a job at the start of the recession but, in reality, I love engineering and a PhD had my name written all over it.
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New Theme for Simon Barker dot com

Well I thought it was time for a whole new….or not so new and original look to the Simon Barker dot com…..yeah that’s Simon Barker, not Simon Baker!….most people seem to be able to tell the difference….even if a search engine can’t! ;)

Let me know what you think to this little experiment….

“Zath Rovers Back In For Barker” – Email Marketing Done Well By Football Manager Live?

football-manager-live-logoWhen you get so many emails as I do, especially mass-mailed ones, it’s quite often tough to stand out and get your attention, however Sports Interactive have certainly managed to do that with their latest email about their Football Manager Live game.

It’s an online multiplayer game I played for a few months a couple of years back based on the highly popular Football Manager series, since I left, I’ve had a few emails with offers to come back (as you often do with subscription services you’ve left), but this is the first email that has really caught my attention and made me read the full thing – which is surely the first thing that you want when sending an email…
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