Whilst I remember, since I have nothing better to do at the moment, here are some pictures of all my new kit, I know this is the peak of nerd-ness but I don’t care, since I had to sell a kidney on ebay to be able to afford this stuff, I’m going to make the most of showing off my shiny new things.
A 5 day business trip to Japan seemed a good opportunity to get some photographs of the rich and varied Japanese culture. Nice idea, but in practice business in Japan involves a lot more drinking than I had anticipated – and I wont even mention the Karaoke experience I endured…
This meant that the only chance I had to take pictures was from my hotel room balcony, still, it was quite an interesting view!
Abby’s little nephew Jack is born, and following my practice with flowers and with a doggy it was time to step up and photograph some real people… gulp!
Luckily little Jack was an angel, and his parents didn’t mind me saying ‘um… left…. er… no i mean right… er… look this way, no this way, no this way.. er… umm……’ at them, and we got some good ones out of the whole excercise!
Continuing my theme of taking pictures of stuff other than just cars and dogs, here’s a little selection for your viewing pleasure. Macro photography remains firmly on my list of things that nerdy photographers do, since I’m not a nerdy photographer I don’t usually do it, I must have been feeling the call of the macro lens today though.
