Who would have thought that even in the piercing winds you can still get sunburn? Despite the weather however, there were a few breaks in the clouds so I took the opportunity to get some nice shots.

Boeing Apache

Red Arrows

Airbus A380 in flight

Parachute Display Team

The rest of the set can be found here

Saturday was one of the many days that the Motor Expo was in town. Under the shadows of Canary Wharf was a selection of cars ranging from Ferrari’s and Aston Martins to BMW’s and Mercedes. Thankfully the weather was good and the sun was shining. As usual I had my camera to hand to take some shots of the cars - I switched between my 50mm f1.8 and 100mm f2.8 Macro lenses, I think they came out quite well.

Motor Expo 2008

Jaguar XF

VW Passat

You can view the rest of the photos by clicking here

Better late than never, here are some of the photos taken at Party Near the Park 2008. Overall the night was a success, the voting went down to the wire - there was only about 1% between first and second place - so as you can imagine it was only down to a few votes in the end. Of course I had my camera on hand for the event and managed to snap a few photos in between monitoring the incoming votes.

Party Near the Park Stage

One of the Acts on stage

Behind the scenes in the ‘tech’ area - the life of the show

If you want to see some more photos of the night click here

Today I am pleased to anounce the launch of my new Mobile Wallpaper store powered by STARtxt.

Ever wanted to stare lovingly at my photos while on the move? Well now you can! Take a look at my brand new online store and browse through some of my best photography to download on your mobile!

Want to see an example?

Text MYLES FREE to 60123

I will be adding more and more as time goes by, and I will probably add some of various events that I attend, so keep checking www.mylesnoton.com/mobile for more updates!

Today was the day the A1GP crews stopped off in Regents Street - London to display their cars ahead of the A1GP race at Brands Hatch on Sunday. Despite the poor weather I managed to get a few shots of the cars and Pit Girls as they were lined up along the street.

A1GP Motorsport

A1GP Motorsport Pit Girl

A1GP Motorsport Car

More photos from the A1GP Pit Stop can be seen here

City of London Skyline - Greenwich Park, Greenwich

It’s not often you get the chance to sit back and relax while looking over the marvellous skyline of the City of London, and there certainly aren’t many places where you can see the whole thing all at once.

There is much debate about the historic London views that will be ‘ruined’ by Mayor Ken Livingston’s deregulation of the planning rules in the Capital, however, while the historic buildings are known the world over and are an important part of London and English Heritage in general, in my opinion people come to London to see Buckingham Palace and St Pauls Cathedral up close, not just look at it from a distance.

London, like every other city has changed over time, I’m sure the same was said about Canary Wharf back in the late 80’s when it was being constructed, but like it or not the need for more and more buildings and the limited amount of space available means that there are going to be trade-offs, a more developed skyline is one of them.

I’m looking forward to the new buildings, there should be a few good photographic opportunities.

Let’s face it, most of the people who attended this years MCN London Motorcycle show went for one reason - the girls. Sure we all pretend it was to see bikes, but most just wanted to see the girls wearing very little clothing….admit it.

In true event fashion it appears once again that I was in the right place at the right time and in one of the best places at that.

As soon as we arrived there was a must photograph event, the MCN Babes were coming on stage to introduce themselves before the competition to select an MCN London Motorcycle Babe 2008. Naturally nothing but 15cm from the stage would have been good enough - so that’s what we did. After it was time to take some photos of the bikes before taking the same position at the front of the stage to take more shots of the MCN Babes.

MCN Babe Winner and Runners up posing for a photoshoot

MCN Babes introducing themselves on stage

Motorcycle Model

Motorcycle Model

It pays to be in the right place at the right time. The rest of the photos I took can be found here

I’ve always questioned Jessops, their product range seems a bit limited and most of it can be bought elsewhere for a lot less than the price they charge. It’s always funny when the staff ask you if you need any help and you know that you probably know more about the product you’re looking at than they do.

For a while now Jessops has been going down the pan but they don’t seem to be doing much to stop it, they still aren’t competitive and they still seem to have incompetent staff, but what makes it even worse is when they manage to completely mess up things that are so simple.

I decided to buy a Manfrotto 728B Tripod, the places I found online were cheaper than Jessops but I decided to go with them anyway because it saved bothering with delivery etc - So I reserved it on the Jessops website and was told I could pick it up from the Kingston shop today (Sunday) between 11.00am and 5.00pm. Sunday came and I got a phone call - from none other than Jessops telling me that they didn’t have it in stock, and neither did any other store in the area - despite the fact that the website had let me order it and reserve it in store.

How can Jessops sell items and offer them for collection in store when they don’t actually exist in their inventory? Why does jessops.com let people buy things that aren’t in stock….It’s a joke.

No wonder why they’re going bust, they can’t get anything right.

2007….another year, another story…another chance to look back.

It’s hard to believe that another year has gone by, another 365 days have passed - each day bringing its own unique set of challenges. It has been one of those years where a lot has happened, yet nothing has happened at the same time - coming off the high of America it was difficult to accept that it was over - and still is.

Although I would like to point out the bad I won’t, because although the year wasn’t spent across the Atlantic it was still a better year than some - just not as good as the previous.

There are a few things that started in 2007 that will continue into 2008…the Kingston University Student Ambassador role being one of them, there are a few of them scheduled so far this year and I hope more will be in the ramp up to September. More photography sessions are being planned at different locations - probably some more air shows too.

The work placement is going ok as well, by mid this year i will have completed 12 months in the big ‘ol world – just one gruelling year to go until graduation.

Overall 2008 shouldn’t be that bad, it’s just a wait and see game.

Having used both Google and Live Search Webmaster Tools, it never ceases to amaze me how different each search engine can be, You just have to look at the screenshots below.

Live Search Ranking Results

Google Ranking Results

Google.com gives my main site (mylesnoton.com) a page ranking of low - Yet I seem to get a lot of traffic from a lot of different keywords where I am top / on the first page of results.

Live Search Ranks my site as having a high rank (5/5), yet I only get a few clicks from live.com searches.

Having said that, there is something that Live Search Webmaster tools has that Google Webmaster Tools does not - a keyword Performance Analyser. It shows you the current ranking of certain pages of your site based on a keyword you enter. Below are some of the results:

New York Keyword Ranking Results

Photography Keyword Ranking Results

North Carolina Keyword Ranking Results

It looks like my pages are ranked quite high for some of the keywords, the good thing is that now I know where I can improve.