The Feeling

The Feeling, originally uploaded by ben-yacobi.com.

The Feeling played Porchester Hall for E4 to an audience of dedicated fans and there was nothing but adoration.

I've got a lovely double page photograph in the centre of the Feeling's new album "Join With Us". Except in lots of the copies I've been credited with the name "Yakobi" instead of "Yacobi". Bah.

The band sold a million copies of their first album, and if they sell a similar number this time if even a small percentage will look me up that's still a lot of traffic!

So I've had to set up a page with the alternative spelling.

Check it out: Ben Yakobi Music Photography

Chinese New Year in London

Gate, originally uploaded by ben-yacobi.com.

Sunday marked the beginning of the Year of the Rat. Surely the coolest of the Chinese New Year's.

Into The Light

Into The Light, originally uploaded by ben-yacobi.com.

I went to this rickety old house and had to run from from left of this picture to behind the camera to get this shot of The Feeling recording the video for their new single. I nearly killed myself doing it though - very slippery floor as rain was leasking through onto it, and the floor was only held up using scaffolding so had I fellen I might have gone through it!

All part of the fun though...

Heavenly Guitars

Heavenly Guitars, originally uploaded by Obi Wan Yacobi.

Last week I jumped on a train to Warminster to stay at the Duke of Sallisbury's house. This large and beautiful country house has been rented out by The Feeling for a couple of months and they invited me down to photograph them recording thei second album there.

I had a great time and it was really interesting to see the recording process in action. I took over 650 pictures!!! Hopefully I should find ten or twenty good'uns from that lot...

Intricate Model City, originally uploaded by Obi Wan Yacobi.

Ah this was once a boring flat photograph I took of the city of Florence last year in Italy. But thanks to some photoshoppery I recently learned it now looks like a little model of Florence!

Oh the joy of geeky photo sadness...

Guitar Orgy

Guitar orgy, originally uploaded by Obi Wan Yacobi.

I was taken to a vegan resaurant last night. Vegan! Those people are crazy - no meat no eggs, no dairy products etc etc.

I somehow got through it without eating mushrooms. I had to have a great deal of discipline when going through the menu. If I could show this sort of focus when browsing through menus in all restaurants perhaps my life can be improved greatly and muchroom mistakes can be reduced to a bear minimum.