want + ♥

I've tried, but I think it's completely impossible to quantify how much I love this ring by YellowGoat designs - it's a mini Polaroid frame for your finger. Genius.

I'm putting it in the Inbox section of Photo Pro magazine this month, and keeping my fingers crossed that the designer is so delighted with it that she ends up sending me one for keeps... stranger things have happened.

In slightly related news, how beautiful is this image? <- click here, press "fashion" then "fable" and go right 5 frames. Sorry for the runaround, I felt guilty sticking up a low-res of his image, no matter how small...

It's by British photographer Chris Craymer (who's just released a new book with Mulberry called "Romance" - something else that I'd absolutely love to have on my coffee table) and shows Johnny Depp and Mrs Depp-Paradis reclining lazily - it's part of a series of equally stunning shots of the couple and well worth flicking through if you get a few free minutes. I like to think that they're in Paris and it's a Sunday morning... *le sigh*...

The light is just completely incredible - this man is a ridculously talented photographer. I'm going to try and chase him for an interview in Photo Pro - fingers crossed I can navigate his agents and PRs...

the new arrival (or why I'm going to be spending all my paycheck on developing costs for the forseeable future)

Now we come to the slide-show portion of our program:


So today I got home from work (rushed home, as I'm halfway through this at the moment and can't wait for the next seminars) and found that this rather exciting package was waiting for me....


I'm no stamp-aholic, but this looks promising. Particularly loving the old-school twine approach to postal security.



Well, it's certainly wrapped well. I've never seen such incredibly sound packaging (and I get sent some pretty expensive camera gear on a very regular basis). Now to extract it from its polystyrene coffin...

Ok, polystyrene off – uncovered soft leather baglet... but what's inside said baglet?

YEAH! It's my new lilac Smena Symbol, fresh from the Ukraine via eBay – a well spent lunchbreak asking people on Twitter for user reviews while also researching different Lomo cameras and gasping at how much Urban Outfitters was charging for them vs how cheap they were on t'Bay resulted in this absolute gem of a camera.


Jeez - what do all these dials mean? Where's Aperture Priority? What about full auto?

I don't think we're in DSLR land any more, Toto... :)

Can't wait to try this out in NYC in two weeks time. That now brings the total kit-count to two 35mm film cameras, two DSLRs plus four lenses, two camcorders and a whole heap of chargers and adaptors. I'm going to need a bigger suitcase.

passionate, inspired and creative

This (via the ever interesting @willbr) made me crack up at my desk. So true...

Photographer's Math

why my job is pretty darn great

and I got paid for this. If anyone's interested, Luna the foxlet lives at the British Wildlife Centre in Surrey. It was one of the nicest days out I've had in a long time and comes thoroughly recommended, even if you're not into photography (but if you are, it's brilliant for getting shots of UK-based beasts.)