Things are looking good - a full set of working studio lights plus my post today included a deer skull and pair of crow wings that I'd ordered. Now where is the imagination and creativity? I know I put it somewhere.......

Was partly spent getting my face wrapped in tin foil and gaffer tape. Now to make a mould from that and see if I can make a mask that fits :)

Got all the filament etc. out of a lightbulb without breaking it - success :) Funny I broke two ordinary bulbs before I had a large glass of voddy and tried the big round bulb :) Why? because I wanted to try - simple as that :)

Card in camera - check Shutter/Aperture settings correct - check Light switched on - check Remotes switched on - check Face recognition switched on - check Get changed, play with a variety of masks - swift check to see exposure etc. is ok (without specs on) - check download to computer - eve...

Great - a whole day at home and not the tiniest bit of inspiration - instead I've tidied up, vacuumed, done some laundry - at least the house is looking sparkling - well bits of it :) I bet some bright idea will pop into my head round about bed-time.......

Looks like my sigma macro lens is knackered again. A year or more ago the limit switch jammed and I had it fixed. This evening I inadvertently flicked the switch and now the blasted thing grinds like crazy although will work on manual - but keeps making rather a lot of noise :( I've tried it on...

My boss has just given me my 25 year service pressie - a day early for some reason but I'm not complaining. It's the Sony A65 plus a few extras - presumably batteries and memory cards. I'm being good and not opening the box until I get home tonight :) I know, I know - I don't look old enough ...

Well I was going to blitz the living room this weekend but I went into my garage this morning and found two bags full of toys courtesy of my nephew :) I knew they'd be coming sometime and bingo there they were. Needless to say at some point most will become props for various pics - my upload tod...

And this is what happens when a skeleton falls all the way down the stairs at 11.15pm - for some reason it didn't startle me at all - maybe because I was tucked up in bed, chilled and reading :) Now I have to figure out how to re-attach his head as a bit has broken off - oops.....

Grief - I really must find somewhere else to put my skeletons - they don't half make a thump when they fall over :)

To hell with the tidying etc when the light is like this :) It has however now moved too far across and isn't in a very convenient place so back to the tidying. I've got a few lobbed together still life basics to play with later though :)

As the sun was out today I was damned if I was going to stay home and do the tidying up/blitzing I keep promising that I'm going to do. Instead I went over to Tewkesbury again to bumble around the Abbey, along the riverbank, in and out of the charity shops and a slow study of the contents of the an...

I've just put a bid on a knackered ventriloquist dummy. It just needs the clothes patching and it doesn't work but it's only for pics....... :)

There's little more annoying than standing at the bus-stop at 7.30am with frost covered leaves, misty air and sun shining through the trees. As I sat on the bus into work I could only gaze out of the window at the sun glinting off the edges of the pile of rubble that used to be the local school, th...

I disappeared off into town this morning - came home for lunch and since the weather was so nice went off into town again. This time with the intention of stopping by the Millennium Bridge - which I call the Waitrose Bridge - to take a few pics. Perfect timing - 15 minutes later the blue sky a...