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Edinburgh photography - September 22, 2006

Hello All

I have added a new feature on the website, to show off my new found photography skills (actually, it's just a very good camera). I hope to take plenty of photos from now to go along with my travel blogs. The ones I've posted here are from Australia and New Zealand this year. If I told you these were the best ones out of some 150 I took, you get the idea of how much of a novice I am to this. I've bought a couple of books on photography, so either the pictures will get better, or I'll just become unbelievably dull at parties, or both.

A big thank you for all of you who turned up to my Edinburgh show this year, and thanks also for all the emails you've sent me. It was a very 'Scottish' show this year, and I have had a number of comments from Americans, Canadians and Australians, who said they didn't quite get the Scottish country dancing routine, but they enjoyed it anyway, which is kind of ironic, because most Scottish people don't get Scottish country dancing, but enjoy it anyway.

I started my tour in Ireland at the weekend. It goes through to the end of October. I'm planning to test out some new ideas for the forthcomming Australian tour, but quite a lot of it will be from this year's Edinburgh show (obviously I won't have the bagpiper at the beginning and the choir at the end, or will I?). I'm particularly looking forward to the Spanish dates in Madrid and Barcelona, which last time around seemed to amuse and bemuse in fairly equal measure. Hopefully this time around I won't get heckled in 8 different languages (you know who you were.)

That's it really. I'm pretty exhaused after Edinburgh, so once this tour is over i'm gonna' take a nice long holiday, I might even get a cat, or buy a boat and sail somewhere. I've got a lot of books to read, and one to write, so I'll let you know how I get on....

Cheers

Danny

This is a photo I took from my balcony in Auckland. It took a long while to achieve the perfect composition of light and colour, to reflect the subtle juxtaposition of nature and structure. - not really, I just thought "mmm that's nice", and hit the shutter button.

Top comedian Rhod Gilbert, who I asked to support me in Aukland, and who repaid me by ripping the arse out of the gigs.

Comedian Jason Byrne believes that comedy keeps him young. This photo was taken on the occassion of his 18th birthday.

This is me backsatge at (i think) Blenheim in New Zealand? I often like to sit on the steps, it reminds me of the times when I was naughty as a child.

One of the Freestyle Love Supreme boys looking typically approachable.

Comedian and novelist, Mark Watson, looking like a new man after an outing to a popular lesbian spa retreat called Daylesford, just outside Melbourne.

Excellent Australian comedian Charlie Pickering, who supported me in New Zealand. When we took a walk around the Lord of the Rings exhibition in Wellington, Charlie got stopped and asked for his photo a lot.