Now, I have virtually no experience of photography, bar grabbing the odd snap from time to time, so the learning curve has been fairly steep.  Along the way, I got some useable photos, some absolute shite, and (normally semi-accidentally) the odd nice photo.  Without any photo-shopping experience or knowledge, all my photos need to be spot on to begin with to make them worth publishing, which has substantially limited my useable output!

Anyway, now that things are calming down somewhat, I’m still taking a reasonable number of work photos, but also starting to take snaps for pleasure – below are some photos I’ve taken over the last six months – any comments, criticisms or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Bordeaux August 2009:

Some of the adorable kids I’ve encountered in the Labour Party:

A few campaign snaps (including the photo of Susan O’Keeffe in the red dress, which is my favourite shot of the campaign):

A few shots of my mates (apologies for the quality of the middle one – it’s the pose I like rather than the quality of the shot):

PS – for anyone wondering, the new blog title was taken from the title of the Edmund White novel: ‘The Beautiful Room is Empty”, which in turn was taken from a letter from Franz Kafka to Milena Jesenská.