the tricycle and the turtle

down the drain.

antique shops don't seem to last very long which is kind of a cruel irony for antique dealers. this one's been up for sale for a long time. pity, peering from the street into the dim interior it looks like an aladin's cave of curios.

orange! - from the soup that brought you 'yellow'.

inspiration! not influence

illustration friday's topic this week is feet. yes, i was thinking about it... but nah!

just doodling around with some images i took last week - never chuck anything away - i got a card reader to go with the new camera and it's handy for downloading off the ixus while at work; get a useless lunch hour, do a photodoodle.

anyway, they're a good band, look out for the album...

thursday challenge: vision

originally titled 'intimacy'

I know it's not trying that hard but it kind of fits in with the this week's theme at thursday challenge.

I was reminiscing over an old pentax camera I have which, sadly, no longer works and I took this through its viewfinder using my trusty ixus400. the camera it's looking through is an me super SLR with a pentax 100mm telephoto. the image is of the ash trees i see whenever i look out the front window.

I hope it gets a better response than 'photo friday'. any reaction is welcome - just tell me you hate it! :o)

photo friday: red

first light of spring

well that's what I call it. :o/

no, I haven't posted the same image twice by accident - I see yellow, some see red but we're all equal so this is for the red seeing guys.

the reason is I've been recommended a site called Photo Friday which is not unlike illustration friday only for photos, obviously.

first light of spring

funny how one purposeful action sometimes delivers unintentional results.
i spied the daffs on the table by the window, catching the early sun. i put them on the floor to give the picture a less fussy background by drawing the curtain behind slightly. prostrating myself on the floor - as you do - to get personal with the blooms, it wasn't until i stood up that i noticed the stripe created by the shadow of the table and curtain.

now here's a question i don't know the answer to; the actual geography of the room is the mirror of the image shown but i think it looks better this way around. we favour reading the image left to right, this way we see the flowers before the shadow which makes a better story.

reasonable theory or talking bollocks - what do you think?

yellow

colleague

...and now i've narrowed the options down to one and soon i shall be a single lens relfex photographer again. the ixus is a superb little camera but it has limits - namely the speed and the zoom. i composed this portrait in my mind a few days before i had the opportunity. the ixus let me down slightly on the zoom - i couldn't get close enough and it's at its full extent; i was imagining a crisper profile. oh well......so to distract from that, i colorized some complementaries.

sunblaze

the weather's been varied, but one thing's constant: when it's been good, I've been stuck in the office. still, the days are now showing signs of drawing out. this evening's sunset was a magnificient one which i caught driving home from work - unfortunately, my route has few safe and legal stopping places; this is the best i could find before it was too late...it's probably better to regret not getting the perfect image than not getting one at all.