This idea about capturing the stages of a flowers blossoming popped into my head when I saw the different stages of flowering of each of the bunch.

Here's the end result:


Here's the setup photo:


The Pringles can is a strip-light that I made.

There are some things I would do differently next time, but I didn't have time to do them today as the bunch of flowers was for someone else and wasn't staying here :-(
I would make the background darker, forget about getting the vase in shot, fill the frame with the flower head and make the light a bit less intense on the right hand side.

Anyway, that's for next time. Or I suppose I could bring my wife a bunch of flowers.....

Tags: story

I have been working inside lately, producing not very much of interest - but I was playing around with photographing glass in response to something I read on the net.

Here's the finished photo:


It took about an hour to light it the way I wanted it, and I am not very happy with the final arrangement, so I will definitely be revisiting shooting glass again.

Here's the set-up I used:

Tags: experiments

OK, it’s weird.
Now that I have started to pay attention to these inconsiderate, ill-mannered parking heroes, they seem to be presenting themselves to me more frequently.
Another example.

Tags: Parking Problems, Inconsiderate

This one I find hypnotic. The water is not smoothed out to become milk like you see in some landscapes. IMHO, it does convey movement.

Tags: water

One of an ongoing series of inconsiderate, selfish and just down right ill-mannered acts.


If you can’t drive it properly, then don’t.

Tags: Parking Problems, Inconsiderate

Spotted on a trip to Glasgows West End.


Do you get the feeling this is a “chippy”?

Tags: sign, scottish