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Thanks for inviting us to your 1st Birthday party Chloe. We had a great time. x

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Hi. I am the money duck. Give me all your money!!

 

When you are saving up for your wedding, money seems to go into the strangest of things! This is our money duck...

 

Bit of an emergency 366 shot this - just got in from work, and the folks are arriving for dinner any minute so doubt I will get any time later for a shot. C'est la vie!

 

Emergency 366!

 

Light Painting

Single Long Exposure

 

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Babysitting duty tonight, but the munchkin sleeps....

 

So...basically house sitting then. DVD, pizza, sorted.

 

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Just back from what was an utterly magical Hneymoon with my beautiful wife, Mel. South Africa is such an amazing country.

 

We were lucky enough to spend 3 days on Safari at the Shamwari game reserve - they do some incredibly important work out there and it was a genuine pleasure to spend some time with all the staff and take in the breathtaking environment that they work in on a daily basis.

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More El fun......must be more patient though!

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5 days to go until the big reveal for the Guernsey Cow Parade. Cannot wait to see my very talented other half's beautiful piece of art work on show...

 

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"You'll break your cameras..."

 

Shook hands and had a chat with Camilla. T'was a bit of a surreal morning!

 

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Vale Castle

Neon Ribbons

  

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Viewed from the Bathing Pools, St. Peter Port, Guernsey.

 

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D'oh!!

 

A good Captain always goes down with his....cereal.

 

It's a Small World!

 

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Another macro shot from last week...flower power!

   

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WHY?

 

I have seen some really silly signs in my time, but this one takes the biscuit!

 

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This is the room that we live in day in, day out. I do love it, don't get me wrong, but things have to change pretty darn soon.

 

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Light Painting / Single Long Exposure

 

One of the 'new ideas' from earlier...you can probably just make out the faint red line that was following the purple line around. It did not work that well, but there's a lot of trial and error going on at the moment!

 

Onwards and upwards!

 

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Well, I had to start getting back in shape sooner or later! My wedding is now in only 4 months time and that is incentive enough to make me start this running lark once again.

 

Managed an 8k run tonight....and now collapsed on the sofa!

 

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Live on stage at East Brunswick Club, Melbourne, Feb 2007. Sepia effect generated by inbuilt camera mode.

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I went for a lovely walk with my sister and baby niece today. The weather was lovely and just as well we went out today as tomorrow looks extremely grim...

 

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HDR shed thingy! Not alot more I can say about it really :O)

 

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With the kind assistance of David Pikebubbles Gilliver as chief fire

starter, I was able to carry out a firey sky experiment with my KAP

gear.

 

More mileage in this for sure. Work in progress.

Thanks for inviting us to your 1st Birthday party Chloe. We had a great time. x

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As I celebrate 25 years of photographing miniatures, toys & figurines, I have turned my attention back to one of the subject matters I spent most of my time studying and photographing during my Degree at the Glasgow School of Art: Toy soldiers.

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For as long as I can remember toy soldiers have fascinated me, and when I discovered the incredible photographs captured by the artist David Levinthal I was blown away. This, in part, led to me documenting many of my childhood toys during my degree in the late 90’s.

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Playing with toy soldiers was one of my favourite pastimes as a youngster. Children learn so much about life through the act of play, albeit whilst possessing a limited ability to comprehend the real life consequences mirrored within the story lines that are played out.

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The theme of war is ever present in all of our lives. Whether we choose to acknowledge it or not (if we have that luxury) is another matter. It is a constant – an inevitability, like death and taxes.

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In late 2023 I spent a grand total of ~£30 sourcing hundreds of the cheapest and most generic toy soldiers I could find. I literally bought armies of them.

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During my degree, I became fascinated by the notion of what happens to a toy when it is entirely removed from its intended use and original context. Just like I did in the late 90’s, I have photographed the figurines individually with nothing but a blank backdrop for company, laying bear the imperfections of each character.

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I could count on one hand the number of times I have used a ‘filter’ in any of my photography, but for this series it felt somehow necessary. Perhaps because it adds to the sense of drama, perhaps because it helps to mask the fact they are merely toys, I am not entirely sure. But something interesting happened to each image when it was added.

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I have spent a lot of time carefully editing/refining the figurines that are depicted: perfecting their imperfections. I will upload one image per day from this new series throughout January.

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#war #stopwar #humannature #destruction #selfdestruct #inevitable #humans #toys #tolsoldiers #macro #macrophotography #filter #closeup #death

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Another long expo from yesterday morning

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The weather was so nice today - clear blue skies, and bright sunshine. I love Spring time!

I am absolutely shattered now though, so off to hit the hay. Night all!

 

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Some more snaps from the happiest day of my life.

 

Thanks again to the boys from:

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I was actually swimming outside on Saturday in the bright sunshine. And it was sunny again today. What is going on?! It's as if it is summer or something...

 

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Hopefully this photo will explain the slightly late upload!

 

Happy Birthday to my fantastic sister - Susan xx

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Just back from what was an utterly magical Hneymoon with my beautiful wife, Mel. South Africa is such an amazing country.

 

We were lucky enough to spend 3 days on Safari at the Shamwari game reserve - they do some incredibly important work out there and it was a genuine pleasure to spend some time with all the staff and take in the breathtaking environment that they work in on a daily basis.

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On the final night of our mimi-moon, there was the most incredible electrical storm. Sadly I did not have any of my proper gear with me as we were on holiday to get away from everything, but I managed to fire off a couple of long exposures using the side of the jacouzi to balance my camera on!

 

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Another long walk on the Isle of Skye. A truly magnificent island.

 

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