3 Wishes Faery Fest (UK's premiere Faerie Festival)

I made this....

Still Life and Macro photography

Here is a slideshow I made this week. The music is by the epic Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).

I really enjoyed taking these images. I placed the flowers in a product cube and snapped away. I used a cheap £5 converter to reverse my 50mm 1.8 lens and create the macro effect on the second half of the images. Considering how cheap the adapter was I was so impressed with the results. Beware anyone thinking of doing this though as when I had finished with the adapter I became aware that it had jammed onto my camera and no matter how much I tried to twist the ring it would not let go of my precious camera. In the end I needed to purchase a jam jar opener, the end result was the adapter was now unusable, and to be fair i don't know how likely I would be to try it on my camera again after the ordeal I want through to remove it in the first place.

I suppose I'll just have to save up and get myself a dedicated macro lens, the 105 2.8f looks rather nice.

Have you tried out DIY macro photography yourself? I'd love to know how you faired. Please leave a comment below in this blog or a link to your blog post on DIY macro photography.

Look forward to reading your thoughts, not psychically.

Gordon

I had an absolute blast at this event. The people where all friendly and approachable. The costumes where amazing and i loved how everyone you spoke to had a story to go along with their costume. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves as my words are failing me.

Video slideshow

Or view the pictures at your leisure and tag yourself on my facebook photography page here http://tinyurl.com/steampunkWM

Images from Abney Parks performance will be up shortly.

Hope you enjoyed those outfits. I'd love you know what you guys dressed up as on Halloween! Let me know in the comments below.

I'll be shooting another Photographer vlog video on the 5th for fireworks night. Focusing on light painting and firework photography. So subscribe to my youtube channel in advance to get notified when it's up.

Stay safe guys!
Gordon C Burns

Video's!

Sorry guys it's been a while.

I've been making loads of video's

This is one I shot for Laura Daligan's Wiccan Youtube channel! I love doing stuff like this.

I've also been looking into making video blogs or Vlogs my first video talks you through the making of my time lapse video. I shot it with my iPhone and edited it on the iMovie App. The cross processing effect was done with youtube's new video editing options.

And here's the time lapse video...

Please feel free to follow me on youtube.

Talk soon guys.

Gordon C Burns

An epic fail!

Well, keeping the blog updated seemed to have failed a bit. It's one of those things which just sort of slipped by me. I'd like to say that the daily grind got in the way, but that shouldn't be used as an excuse! I need to re-prioritise my life again.

Me and some friends where in Avebury as I was filming a wonderful "Gong Healing" workshop. The bed and breakfast we stayed in was looking out over Silbury Hill and in the morning we thought it would be a good idea to take a walk to it before check out. So i loaded up lightly, just taking my camera and the 17-50 f2.8 lens.

A word to the wise, don't forget your battery! They do come in handy when out and about with your camera, they don't work very well left in the charger sat in my backpack! Do'h! Thank god for the iPhone.

My three regular blog followers ;-) will know that this blog in mostly about me and my D7000, however in a diversion from normal programming, today i'm going to look at some iPhone4 photo's all shot and edited on the iPhone using various apps. As i heard said once before, the best camera for taking photo's is the one you have on you!

Enjoy the wonders of Avebury. I will be going again sometime soon without having any work to distract me, just to enjoy the place properly.

Laters ya'll.
Gordon

Video test

Just a little test of my new lens a Sigma 17 - 50 f2.8 ex dc os. I quite like this lens. It's very well built and feels as good as nikons own 17 - 50 lens. Optical quality for still images is in the process of being tested at the moment . But the video looks good, contrast is nice. And if you wanted more you could dial it in o the camera settings or do it in post.

These shots are hand held with the sigma Optical Stabiliser turned on (this helps to keep the camera stable for still photography but also works for video which is great), I think it gave good results for hand held shooting with no planning. As with anything a bit of planning and i should have rested my arm on something as i took the shots. But hey, i'm not judging my hand held skills here.

Nikon D7000

Sigma 17 - 50 f2.8 ex dc os

I think this lens is very well made. It all feels very solid, as solid as the nikkor 17 - 55mm f2.8 lens which is several hundred quid more expensive. I think i'll run this video through the editing suite again this time colour grading the image and adding some post stabilisation to make it look smoother.

The Depth of focus is really nice on the lens and although the focus has a small motion, turning from close to infinity in just a quarter turn, there is some resistance in mechanism which makes pulling focus quite smooth. The bokeh (the out of focus blurriness) is really nice at f2.8. I'll do more little tests on this lens in the next few days, both video and photography. I'm going to use it to video a few interviews tomorrow!

Anyway this has been a bit tech heavy compared to my usual blogs so if you've made it this far and have questions don't be scared to leave them down below.

Gordon

The continuing adventures...

Thursday night I was returning from a little art showing in Mayfair, where Laura was displaying one of her commissioned pieces. I as per usual brought my camera. I definitely think this blog thing has helped me to focus and I got some killer event shots.

Anyway I digress, I was walking up the tube platform with the umpteen million people squeezing themselves through the doors and barging past each other like the Gap was going to chase them down and eat their brains. I stopped, like the git I am, to do up my boot lace. I can hear the muffled moans as the Gap catches up with these people and their dispare that my inconsiderate bootlace has caused them.

After the bootlace is sorted and I can safely perambulate without tripping over and really encountering that dreaded Gap people are so fearful of, I look around me. The platform was deserted, apart from one man who was just waiting, but what for I don't know because I was on that platform for 3 more trains after my one passed and he didn't get on any of them. Digressing again...

Like any good photographer in this situation I decided to get as close to the big DO NOT CROSS FOR DANGER OF DEATH sign and lay down on the floor to wait for the next train, resting the camera on this little diddy table tripod I had in my pocket.

Zoooooooommmm.

Having the camera stable on the floor allowed me to have a long exposure speed of about a second, meaning I could capture the motion of the train zipping past me whilst the rest of the shot stayed in crisp focus. On top of this laying on the floor gave me an angle which is not seen often by the casual observer adding interest to the piece. You can try this yourself on pretty much anything, look at pictures of flowers. Who many good ones can you see taken from the top down, you'll see they're all take from the side or from down below, because it presents a familiar object in an unfamiliar way.

I've been playing around with creative borders in my pictures also.... I love borders and vignettes. Have you noticed that yet?

Talk soon.
Gordon

Day 30. Feb 2st 2011

Final Day. Wow. I made I lot of photo's in this 30 days! Today's photo is a portrait of myself. I'm definitely not the most photogenic person on the planet but i think i succeeded. I used the simple method of adding shit loads of soft light to smooth out my skin tones.

And there we have me! I kept this one simple with the photoshop, though the temptation was there to airbrush the crap out of my face. I would have liked to use more lights to be honest, but one of my little flashes has started to malfunction. Let that be a lesson to those who buy cheap stuff from Hong Kong. Though ti be honest, the ebay seller is more than happy to replace the light, I just have to return the faulty one in it's original packaging, it's going to take some time to get back to me. Wish I'd spent the extra £20 and brought it from amazon.

So in this luna cycle what have I learned? I've learned that I can show more photo's as i've been so bad in the past of just snapping away and saving things to my harddrive never to be seen again. I've learned to focus more on composition and hold back on my itchy trigger finger. I've discovered that in a short space of time I can produce better results. I think i'm still miles away from having my own photographic style. I've learned the importance of backing up my harddrive and how useful that extended warranty can be. I've come to the understanding that I should only every attempt poetry as a comedic gesture. I can write. I must stop taking photo's, I need to make more photo's.

Although this is the end of my Photo A Day challenge, this is not the end of my blog. I'm looking forward to once a week posting a photo, which has had much more thought behind it than what i've, sometimes very, hastily composed this past month. I may even try my hand at reviewing camera equipment. I'll also be posting dSLR video footage too, though how and when has yet to be decided.

I hope you all have enjoyed my ramblings and my photography.

Stay tuned ya'll, this blog ain't going no place.

Gordon C Burns

Day 29. Feb 1st 2011

You know, we're already 1/12 of the way through the year. It's going to be a fast year I can just feel it, so please everyone buckle those safety-belts.

Today I was a bit mehh. After loads of days at work I've finally got a day off and my brain just shut down. It wasn't until I was about to give up on taking a photo today when I saw some mist rolling in (I live in london so when I say mist i mean smog; deadly, choking, polluting smog). The light on the other side of the little communal garden was on lighting the mist quite eerily.

Now to be honest after I returned with my camera some of the mist (deadly pollutants) had dispersed. But still i think it's an interesting composition. Very little in terms of photoshopping has gone into this, apart from a tiny touch of contrast adjustment and I removed a bit of light reflecting on the lens.

So tomorrow's the last day of my Blog a Day for this luna cycle! So i'm going to make it a good one. I'm hoping to return to head-shots/portfolio pictures... wonder who the model will be?

Gordon

Day 28. January 31th 2011

A simple picture today. Mainly testing out ways of enhancing lighting in a photo without it looking fake and exaggerated.

The colours are very "movie like", seeing as the prop is from Doctor Who. I thought the colours would give a more "real" impression as our brains, when confronted with a TV or Movie prop always find the actual objects to be somewhat flat and lack the colours we remember from the big screen. Interesting how we sometimes have to add elements to an image to give some things an effect of reality.

Does that make sense?

Gordon

Day 27. January 30th 2011

My little Mac is back from the apple store and all shiny and fixed, they even cleaned it for me! Some people think that paying for an extended warranty is a waste of money. My £100 apple care warranty on my laptop has already paid for about £400 worth of repares! So, along with the piece of mind this gives me, I think it's money well spent.

Finally had the time to snap a picture on my way to work! Yay. Didn't have time whist at work to cheekily edit it though, hence another late update. Be warned for those of you reading you may need your maths brain switched on for this!

HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. When you take an image the camera sensor can capture more information than can be displayed. So, for example, if a JPEG image can display brightness from 1 (dark) all the way to 10 (bright) , your digital camera may be able to capture from 0 to 11. That is why it's possible to brighten or darken an image in a program like photoshop.

When you shoot in RAW which on most dSLR's is the really BIG file size. They are massive files for a reason, using my made up scale of light to dark, a RAW image captures -2 to 13 this gives you much more information which you can play around with in terms of brightening/darkening an image.

Here is the original image.

Now with HDR you basically take the dark parts and make them lighter and the light parts and make them darker revealing more detail which would normally be thrown away. This can be done subtly which gives you a more natural looking image. But this next image is what happens if you take this idea to extreems, because I rarely do subtle.

And there you have todays HDR photo of the day. I love the eerily dream like qualities you can get with this process making an average looking street in north London look spectacular.

See you all tomorrow for more photo madness.

Gordon

Day 26. Janurary 29th 2011

Well the Mac's in the shop and I should be able to pick it up tomorrow. Yay! Today I filed my tax return, yup I know i was a little late doing that. But it did inspire this interesting image.

This little skeleton usually hangs by our back window surrounded by butterflies, today he became my muse along with the last £10 to my name, till next pay day.

Death and Taxes seemed a fitting name for this exposure.

Wonder what tomorrow holds for my kino-eye?
Gordon

Day 25. January 28th 2011

The London street photography didn't work out as planned. I really have to stop planning to take photos on my way to work. I'll never be able to bring my self to leave early! I was looking at a technique called Patern Matching today, which is when the eye sees a small object and the brain from it's countless memories and experiences draws the rest of the picture. I really like the idea that a photo you take can mean a million different things to a million different people.

So here is today's photo.

To me this can mean so many things right now, but it is strongly telling me to stop and look at all the opportunities around me to make a good photo, I'm not in any rush to get where I'm going. Please mention in the comments what this image means to you.

Thank you all for reading and I'll see you all tomorrow.

Gordon

Day 24. Janurary 27th 2011

Well yesterday my laptop hard-drive died on me. Killing my Mac with my photo-shop on and loosing me lot of photo's which I failed to back up recently, including all of the original photo's from my photo-a-day blog! Arrrggghhhh! A word of warning to everyone with irreplaceable files on their computer, always make a back up of everything. This has been a lesson to myself. I'm hoping that the dudes at the Apple shop can fix it, and maybe even save some of my files, when I go in on Saturday. But untill then i'm having to time share on Laura's laptop, so I shall keep this brief.

Yesterday apart from making my face look like a llama I took another headshot of a lass at work as i've been playing around with creating some idea's for a website which is in the pipeline. So I thought I'd share this picture with you today.

This is Ruby. She's a bit nuts. Most model head-shots, especially glamor, are aimed at a market were girls are just pretty things to look at. I think that is bullshit and a very one dimensional view. A good photographer captures more than just light, textures and shapes, they capture life and personality in every image. That's the type of photographer I want to be. I wanted to take a picture which showed that she's more than just a model.

Tomorrow I'm going to take some London street shots. And by the time you read my blog tomorrow I expect you all to have backed up your computers!

Gordon.

Day 23. January 26th 2011

Well I didn't really get around to photographing an interesting object at work, but I did find an interesting object at home... my face and a cheap but rather funky fish eye lens! **

Fish eye lenses are great for distorting reality, the closer you are to the lens the more exaggerated the perspective! I was merely testing out the lens when I snapped this picture. I loved it so much I thought i'd share it with you all!

So please enjoy my face.

Tomorrow i'll try to find more fun things to do with the fish eye lens.

Gordon

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Day 22. January 25th 2011

Zoom, zoom, zoom, the buses rush by you.
but none of them a twenty-four
They all become a red blur of streaks,
It's always such a bloody chore!

There we go, some really shit poetry to set the mood for today's photo.

Long exposure with the camera on one of those funky gorilla pods attached to a railing. On thinking about it I kinda wish the pedestrian crossing wasn't so busy because i think this would have been nicer if the camera was lower to the ground. But with all the people around I didn't wanna leave my camera on the floor in the rain with loads of people around.

Congrats to Leon who spotted the mistake in my little "competition." A pint of beer is in the post.

I'm working tomorrow so I think i'm going to try to find another small interesting object at work...

Gordon

Day 21. January 24th 2011

Today I tried my hand at a headshot. Possibly one of the most marketable skills in a photographers arsenal as many people require them. Everyone from models, TV presenters, corporate and business types and all the way to graduate photo's.

I was lucky enough to be working with a well established model today (not surprising really for those of you how know what my day-job is), Kate Banks. She recently appeared in the Sun's gripping photo casebook column Dear Deidre. So far in my little blog i've managed to snag two publish models.

Anyway's also taking photos at work provides another bonus which is having some TV studio lighting. Now with head-shots the trick is to have even soft light, which means soft-boxes to the left and right of the head and also above and slightly behind as a hair light. Use the correct angle which for girls is to shoot at a slight downward angle to soften features and enlarge the eyes, and for guys take a slightly upward angle to create a sense of power. Use a lens which has minimal distortion, basically anything above the normal 50mm. Finally and most importantly make sure the focus is on the eyes. All of these are not rules but mearly guidelines to achieve a textbook shot. Those of you with creative flair will understand that after you've studied and learned the textbook rules, the first thing you do is throw the darned thing out the window, otherwise everyones photo's will all look the same.

So here is todays photo.

I have to admit i'm rather proud of it. The only think that I dislike is the background. I don't like the uneven distribution of the folds in the curtain, am I just being picky?

The photoshop was simple, I did a bit of contrast tweaking and added a tiny amount of difusion to soften the image a touch, that's it. I did not airbrush the skin, it's just good lighting and make-up. I did not artificially brighten the eyes, I find it most unsettling to see an image where the eyes look too white!

I really should try to replicate this look with my little portable flashes and see how I go.

I tried a second shot afterwards but messed up a bit. I used my little flash, for some extra light, which has a different colour temperature to the lighting in the studio so we had a weird colour cast to the image. So like any pro would, I turned it black and white (using NIK's Silver Effects Pro photoshop plug-in) and pretended that was my intention all along!

There's another glaringly obvious error with the picture also... I'll leave you guys to work out what I did wrong. A pint or glass of wine* to the first person to guess correctly!

Till tomorrow guys,

Gordon

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Terms and conditions.

*house wine of white, red or pink variety or other suitably priced beverage.

*all travel expenses to be paid by the winner.

*the prize has no cash value.

*this agrement is not legally binding.

*a ducks quack DOES echo.

Day 20. January 23th 2011

Once again a bit of a late upload...

Today I was playing with water. Quite unsuccessfully to be honest. Below you'll see my best effort.

I feel that maybe I should have had more light on the glass and the liquid as it gets a bit dark at the top. Also I might have had more luck if i'd shot with the help of an assistant to poor the liquid and manually focused the camera as glass and moving water is not the best thing to auto focus on. Finally I think i could have got a beter show with a more viscous fluid like red wine, but alas we where out of that.

As per usual opinions and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Gordon

Day 19. January 22th 2011

The return of the cats...

Cobweb was just begging to be photographed today. So lets simple jump to it.

I love my cats very much and things I love are often at the barel end of my camera lens.

I have been thinking more and more of looking at doing pet portraiture. I love animals and I'm usually pretty good with them. I haven't been bitten by a dog since I was about 7, I still have some scarring on my right buttock from this encounter (i'm sure I'll show you after a few pints of ale). If anyone has any idea's, suggestions, research material, or pets which they'd like to donate to me for target practice (London only guys... unless you would like to pay my train fair) it'd be most appreciated.

As always you can't have one without the other so here is the lovely Star looking a bit disinterested in my camera, so I decided not to bother her to much.

I intend to play with water tomorrow. I'm going to try long exposure to give a silky smooth quality to the water and high shutter speeds to freeze falling water and give it a striking and not often seen composition.

Untill tomorrow.... oh damnit, i've now got the Littlest Hobo theme tune in my head...

Gordon

Day 18. January 21th 2011

So... i almost forgot to do a picture today. I've been editing like a maniac on a private project! Finally got the bloody thing finished!

Firstly I'd like to thank the people who, through Facebook, Twitter and this very humble blog, left me suggestions with almost half of them coming from Leon. I will be getting to them shortly.

But today I wanted to take a picture of something with texture... Above Laura's art desk is this little box covered in a lovely red chinese style material. However, the box jiggled and rattled as i gently removed it from the shelves. This of-cause ment that I had to investigate, and two sparkling, shiny and tingling chinese worry balls presented themselves.

One of these and a nice cushion became todays subject.

Now one thing I really wanted to do was take a picture which is sort of synonymous with having a good quality DSLR so I bunged on my 50mm lens which has a very shallow depth of focus, meaning that the background is all soft and in a creamy blur, you can't get this with a point and shoot camera.

Oh and I really need to find a way to disguise my reflection...

Anyway off to the day job tomorrow... I need a day off!

Gordon

Day 17. January 20th 2011

Fire... I take you too burn.

I had this idea in my head for a few days now. It's nice to brew ideas and see what comes of them. I wanted to use a mirror and I asked Laura if we had any plate sized mirrors. And on the wall right behind her was the perfect mirror. A red fiery heart shaped mirror just the right size. Sometimes I really can't see for looking.

Simply some long exposure with a burning lighter on a mirror. I blew of the flame as the shutter on the camera was open to make the flames dance for me.

WARNING! Playing with fire is dangerous, always make sure you have supervision and suitable safety precautions in place. I had two cats on watch at all times and half a can of larger (with more in the fridge) reluctantly ready to dowse any unwelcome flames.

Randomly, is anyone on twitter? If so i'm at www.twitter.com/gordon_burns

I'll be honest I, again have failed in setting myself a goal for tomorrow. Let's see what the wind blows our way. Or maybe you guys have some suggestions?

Sweet dreams all.
Gordon

Day 16. January 19th 2011

With this blog being timed by the moon, rather than some antiquated, rustic and somewhat inaccurate calendar invented by some roman dude, I thought that the moon would be a good subject for today as it's a full moon. Also, astrologically speaking, the full moon has returned home to Cancer and now starts it's year long journey through all the other star signs, at least that's my layman's view on it. I'm sure there are people out there with much more experience than me who can tell me how wrong I am in this statement, I mean the moon doesn't really stop or start it just keeps on going around and around doesn't it?

Well anyway I could argue with myself till I'm blue in the face and many day have been spent doing just that in the past.

Onto today's photo.

I love this picture, even if i do say so myself. I really think the clouds helped me out with providing such a nice frame around the moon. However, they also hindered me in the fact that in my rush after work to capture this beauty I didn't get the chance to focus correctly and my focus is on the cloud layer rather than on the moon. So it's a bit soft in the center, but then so's my favorite chocolate bar.

Tomorrow i'm going to be playing with fire. So bring on the teflon oven gloves and i'll see you tomorrow in the burns unit (which is also my gangsta rapper name incidentally).

Gordon
x

Day 15. January 18th 2011

Whaahoooo we're halfway there.....

Halfway through my photo a day blog. Time flies when your having fun. Also I have noticed that on quite a few days i've uploaded more than one photo. I wonder if this means I can finish early? Anyways, with video editing, chroma keying visual graphics and complex computer stuff coming out of my ears this last week or so i've been finding it such a pleasure to stop and look at the simple things. So once again I return to my reoccurring theme.

These pictures really are not a chore, so I hope i'm not doing anything wrong so constructive feedback is always welcome. I've never found it easy to be creative, I've always been the guy who does the technical stuff. Anyway, i heard of this flickr group called Del*te me! Uncensored. It's a group where you post your pictures and then people rip it to shreds, hopefully constructively. I'm thinking about giving it a go. It might help me to improve... or it might end up with me standing on-top of "Kitten Kingdom" getting ready to jump.

Here is today's composition.

It's been bugging me for a bit now that one of the lights in our little chandelier is red (not like i've got off my ass to change it), so I though i'd find a way to make that my subject of today's picture. The best way, in my eyes, to make the red stand out would be to take a shot with a wide lens really close up getting the red bulb in focus and the rest out of focus or to do a black and white shot with the red popping out.

This was simply done by duplicating the image into another layer of photoshop turning that black and white then rubbing out the bulb in the black and white layer to expose the red underneath. I suppose someone with more photoshop skills will know a simple "one click" method but this seemed to work quite well for me.

As always your comments are appreciated!

Gordon

Day 14. January 17th 2011

Today I mostly spent sorting out laura's computer. I did end up confusing a few people on twitter with my tweet of "I'm installing windows in my underpants." I'll let you all ponder that delightful mental image for a moment.

After swapping bits and bobs from two old computers I managed to create some sort of Frankenstein computer. But looking inside of these computers I was presented with a plethora of colours and shapes.

A bright light shinning through the rear air vent. For this i just bunged the flash onto wireless and snapped away.

Same method as above but I chose a different composition.

I can't think of an ending to this blog so i will just wish you all good night.

Gordon

Day 13. January 16th 2011

Day 13. Sunday. Nothing better than a sunday roast with the folks and the misses down the local pub. Oh and a beer. Yum.

I'm loving simple yet effective images. I hope this sums up your sunday. Now i'm off to clean a printer.

Gordon

Day 12. January 15th 2011

With cleaning being so boring I though a walk through hampstead heath would be the order of the day. So armed with just my trusty 50mm lens and of-cause the camera body me and Laura set out.

Walking through Hampstead Heath has always been our escapism from this crazy world! There are so many things about this place which are magical. Everything from the animals to the trees screams out for me to snap a picture.

This swan danced and sang for us as he devoured the bread which we freshly brought from the shop just for this occasion. At then end of the feast he turns to thank us.

This wonderful little fountain is brilliant, Laura loves it for the fact that people bring their "woosers" along here to water them mid way through their "walkies". This fountain is surrounded by faces each with it's own character. I look forward to capturing more images here.

Sat in a puddle this log caught my attention. I was just taking pictures of ducks and I think at the time this may have resembled one.

When out in nature it's all about looking and enjoying the views. The magic and wonder which you see in someone's eye as they look at a tree and see a face in the bark is captured right here.

I love my walks and I hope you enjoyed just this one of my many amazing journeys out in nature. Now turn off your computer, walk away from that wi-fi hotspot, leave your phone at home and take a walk in the wild.

Gordon
xxx

p.s. check out my Facebook for more pictures from the heath.

Day 11. January 14th 2011

Today I wanted to shoot a model, literally. In our little flat in the busy hub of this country surrounded by concreet and glass, tubes and busses, council estates and office blocks, we have a little garden. To be more specific it's a faerie garden. Loving created by Laura. Sat right outside our window is a faerie watching over us.

This image was shot at night and simply lit with a very bright LED torch and I added a touch of magic to the image in the sense of adding a little difusion and mutting the colours.

Now some people think of me as a bit of a hippy. But I don't care, I have long hair and a beard, which more than qualifies me to believe in faeries, embrace mother nature, hope one day our world will be a better place and to watch Country File.

Catch you all tomorrow where the theme may very well be cleaning orientated as my mums popping down to visit on Sunday anyone wanna help out as we have a spare pair of marigolds?

Gordon
xxx

Day 10. January 13th 2011

Those special moments. There are certain shots which you just can't create. These are moments which you could very well spent all day waiting for. Well I was testing out some bits and bobs on the camera and voila came up with this!

Sometimes as much as I plan and arrange and organise photo opportunities, sometimes the best pictures are those which you just snap and then turn black and white.

I think i need to worry less about all that time spent setting up a shot and just take the picture.

Simple is definitely good.
Gordon

Day 9. January 12th 2011

Another fail today! A slightly frantic run to work ment no time for pictures on my way to work. But to make up for it here are some pictures from my journey home after work, which was and infinitely more interesting as I met laura at a Poet Cafe where she was giving a talk on linking art with the written word.

A tea pot held by our friend Kirsty upon a lovely leopard print coat belonging to Laura.

A black and white image of Laura's red hair adornment.

A totally random light-shade from the poet cafe.

A fancy street on the way to the bus stop.

Anyway sorry to disappoint ya'll so i'll be doing the photo walk to work on Monday. Sorry this blog is lacking a bit in written content but i've been working loads this week to keep the tax man happy. I have no idea what I'm going to photo tomorrow so i'm going to play it by ear!

Gordon
xxx