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In November, Eva had a party with her school class from Zutphen. Her mother Mieke was busy and her friend Emily wanted to stay over for the night, so that they could both come back late from the party. Eva asked me to come to the East of the country to bring them to the party and pick them up again at about midnight. So I did. It was strange to sleep in Mieke (my ex-wife)'s house.
The next day I went to Deventer with Eva, to visit Michael. He is one of my best friends. After visiting him and chatting most of the afternoon, we made a walk with our dog Zora along the river IJssel. A nature reserve has been made along the river, with wetlands and wild cows. The next day we made another nice autumn walk, in the forest between Brummen and Eerbeek. The colours of the trees were quite spectacular.
When I picked up the girls from the party in the middle of the night, I realized that Eva is becoming a beautiful girl. She is very self-confident and flirts with boys. She has good friends, both in Zutphen at her school and in The Hague. She knows more about fashion and contemporary music than me. Recently she spend half of the day downloading music for her i-pod. And she organized a meeting for her friends in The Hague, they met in a alcohol-free bar in the city centre and went shopping in town together.
Just taken delivery of a flash diffuser (I just can't stand the idea of a flash drowning out an image) and have been playing around with it a bit - this is one of my first photographs.
This one is done with the amber cone - you have to set your camera to tungsten; pretty neat if you ask me.
Buying this kit (it's called the Lambecy Flash Diffuser) from www.extremeshop.co.za was a quick and easy affair, and rang in at 1/3 of the price it would have cost me to bring it in via the likes of wantitall.co.za. I couldn't find these things in local shops.
Here's a pretty thorough write-up of how it all works if you're interested. Now to use it "in the field" as it were.
Pure stress - clear evidence that parental alienation syndrome had kicked in.
The poor guy.
Parental alienation is a set of strategies that a parent uses to foster a child's rejection of the other parent. Parental alienation syndrome develops in children who come to hate, fear, and reject the targeted parent as someone unworthy of having a relationship with them.
Many moons ago, I did some macro shots of Alex's cars..... he tended to look after his stuff. Wonder where they are now, since they are no longer "toys" - but collectibles. Really.