http://rosshalfin.com Diary 2008 en-us Stopped in Bangkok for a day on the way home and went out to shoot an area I'd seen where they make and sell Buddhas and stuff wholesale for temples and corporate offices etc. A bit like the East End of London, the Thai Buddha factory. Walked around the corner into the UN Building and hundreds of Thais protesting against the Manchester City football club owner, Thaksin,... Stopped in Bangkok for a day on the way home and went out to shoot an area I'd seen where they  make and sell  Buddhas and stuff wholesale for temples and corporate offices etc. A bit like the East End of London, the Thai Buddha factory. Walked around the corner into the UN Building and hundreds of Thais protesting against the Manchester City football club owner, Thaksin,... http://www.rosshalfin.com/diary/september-2008/diary-september-2008.php Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:33:36 GMT Ross Halfin http://rosshalfin.com/diary/august-2008/diary-august-2008.php Walked on the pitch while Jimmy and Leona Lewis played Whole Lotta Love... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/august-2008/diary-august-2008.php Off to Beijing, China today, with my old chum Jimmy Page... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/august-2008/diary-august-2008.php Home for a couple of days... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/august-2008/diary-august-2008.php Been travelling for the last week, all over the East... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/august-2008/diary-august-2008.php Off across London this morning, joining the commuter hell to Liverpool Street Station... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/august-2008/diary-august-2008.php Got up at dawn(ish) and photographed the same view... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/august-2008/diary-august-2008.php Strange light today in Dubai - a weird hazy sun... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/august-2008/diary-august-2008.php In Dubai for a couple of days to meet up with William Nash... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/july-2008/diary-july-2008.php Couldn't sleep, I was so overtired - I have too much on my mind... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/july-2008/diary-july-2008.php Got Guitar World in the post. As it's a nice English summer's day I sit in the garden to read it... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/july-2008/diary-july-2008.php New Metallica special with my Classic cover... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/july-2008/diary-july-2008.php Metallica started rehearsing at 2am - I went to bed... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/july-2008/diary-july-2008.php So, off to Bergen in Norway, via Oslo. Sit on the runway at Heathrow for two hours... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/july-2008/diary-july-2008.php Peter is recovering in my garden after revisting his youth yesterday... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/july-2008/diary-july-2008.php Peter Makowski's birthday today, he's 57 years old... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/july-2008/diary-july-2008.php I've messed up my right arm to the point where it hurts to lift a pillow let alone a camera... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/july-2008/diary-july-2008.php We are stopped by about six unsmiling Italian border police, all plain clothes and heavily armed... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/july-2008/diary-july-2008.php It was so hot I couldn't sleep - started to fall asleep as I had to get up at 3am... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/july-2008/diary-july-2008.php Been in Lisbon the last few days trying to be cultural... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/july-2008/diary-july-2008.php As of today Idols are no longer my agents... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/june-2008/diary-june-2008.php The Mighty Priest come on after midnight and it's cold and windy... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/june-2008/diary-june-2008.php Off to shoot Def Leppard and Whitesnake at Wembley... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/june-2008/diary-june-2008.php Lars rang me today looking for Pete Makowski, he was on a tour bus in Europe - a tour bus!!! http://rosshalfin.com/diary/june-2008/diary-june-2008.php It is running late. Kiss play at 1.20am and come off at 3.20. "Rock And Roll All Nite" - really... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/june-2008/diary-june-2008.php Eric Singer is my assistant in the photo pit... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/june-2008/diary-june-2008.php Read an interview with Mr Paparazzi, Darryn Lyons... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/june-2008/diary-june-2008.php Have some food and hang out with Kiss at their very posh hotel, Le Maurice. Paul thought he had a day off today... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/june-2008/diary-june-2008.php The Mojo Awards. Same place as last year, The Brewery in the City of London... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/june-2008/diary-june-2008.php The Mojo Awards. Same place as last year, The Brewery in the City of London... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/june-2008/diary-june-2008.php Check my messages, there are ten from John Bionelli, with things like 'Did they destroy Download...?' http://rosshalfin.com/diary/june-2008/diary-june-2008.php The Foos are having a party in Park Lane at the Whiskey Club. I go with Jimmy... http://rosshalfin.com/diary/june-2008/diary-june-2008.php The new cover of Rolling Stone, the Jimmy Page photo shot by me last month in London...