Woohooo! This week me and Robyn completed our first set of lego minifigs. The lego peeps have been selling these individual minifigs in unmarked packets for a month or two for people to try and collect a complete set. We started out quite strong but then started coming across lots of duplicates. Luckily by this point all the other geeks of geekwad corner at work had also been bitten by the lego bug and it wasn’t long before Dan had tracked down an online cheat sheet which when combined with the barcode scanner on my phone could ensure that me and Robyn could complete the set quite quickly (and cheaply)…..Genius! I love photographing these little lego doods and the diverse nature of some of these characters is gonna provide some comical setups I’m sure. I can’t wait for series 2 to come out as apparently it includes a lego disco~stu!!

We recorded this video with Robyn late last week shortly after her new camera arrived (ready for our holiday in a few months). It has already been up on facebook for a few days but have only just got chance to post it here. Apologies if you’re seeing it for the second time. As biased as I maybe…..damn she’s cute! lol.

stop and listen for a while

I’ve been wanting to try podcasting for a looong time. So here is the first attempt. I’m joined for this experiment by the totally awesome Simon Pollock of gtvone.com. We cover a huge range of topics from facebook, social networking, the iPad, SEO for photographers, Music, Gowalla, Openscreen.tv, Bands, The Panasonic DMC-TS2, The Nikon Coolpix s8000, Lecia Lenses blessed by kitten love and a whole host of other topics. We basically rattle on for an hour and a half for your listening pleasure. I hope you find the audio quality passable (considering its via skype and my first attempt). I’d love to have some feedback in the comments on either the topics covered, whether you found it useful/entertaining and more importantly if I should do more? Enjoy!

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Well Monday is my day to look after our daughter Robyn through the Summer Holidays. Today we were hoping to take some pictures outside because Robyn likes to pretend and practice to be a model and I obviously like any excuse to take pictures. Sadly the weather has been a  bit grey so we set up inside. We decided to build a set with a splash of colur and threw down some coloured card backgrounds I had in a random pattern. I then set up one flash and umbrella and we started having some fun! Robyn (who was mostly in charge) organised various costume changes whilst I got the camera ready!! I’ve put some highlights below.

If you want me to shoot your child (with a camera of course) then please just head to the contact form and get in touch. I’m happy to shoot whatever you wish from formal portraits to more fun and relaxed shots like these above and my rates and very reasonable.

I think these shots also highlight what great effects you can achieve in a small space, literally this whole setup was shot in a space less than 1 metre square (although it does help if your model is pint sized )