Hawaiian Times

Two weeks in Hawaii. Too much lava, not enough surfing, great time.
Some snaps from our time there. Black and White, there is colour elsewhere...

Stripes

Praise be to my beautiful, generous daughter again for stepping up to the plate and modelling for me. New stripey trousers and a sense of duty work wonders with this lovely girl.

Thanks you x

More Friends

Just adding a bit more to yesterdays post. More friends includes some shots I did a couple of weeks ago. More visitors who couldn't say no?

New portraits

Not to be out done by her kid sister, Grace dons some fine fashions and steps into the spotlight for a session of itchy, hot clothes and trying not to smile too much or too little.

So happy to have such helpful kids to step up and suffer the glare for their father. Grace's favorite curry tonight is the reward. Olive played the role of stylist (mainly hair) and studio assistant when the need arose.

Shopping Spree

Some new fashions for the girl. After a day in the shops here is some of the new gear we came home with. I'm thinking that we did pretty good.

Of course any excuse to turn the new flash gear on to get a snap of my girls flash new gear.

Let there be new lights

Oh yeah, just got myself some new lights. The highly acclaimed Einsteins by Mr Paul C Buff.

They arrived on friday and having been playing over the weekend. These lights are a major advance on the old Balcars I've been using for the last 20 years. They do everything I need and more. One of the things that sold me was that they happened to take the same fittings as my Balcar gear. So, my soft boxes, umbrellas, reflectors and grid spots all fit the new lights. Now that's a bargain. Mostly though, they are just really functional good quality lights. Easy to use from scratch, excellent colour stability and an awesome variable power range.

Low Key with Miss Clare

Surveying the vast world

Here is another in the Survey series of images. Does this image capture all there is to know about it's subject? Do I now own the subject of these images? What is the subject?

Destined for greater things than this humble blog.

A step back in time...

Barely enough time to scratch myself today or any day in the last six weeks (you can't imagine how itchy I've been) I wanted to get another post up before Jan ended, so here it is.

I've been traveling for the whole of the holiday break to places near and far. I want to put up some images from those travels but I honestly don't know where to start. So, I've gone back to the beginning and placed one image that I took just as the holidays were beginning.

I like these images the people are always smiling for me.

There will be much more to come...