An ornate bottle stopper in the style of Victorian era.

Bent, weather beaten, but still hanging on in there.

Salt and Pepper pots with a difference.
You’re my best mate you are, I really love you etc.

A shot from last nights Southdowns Agility Club session.

Odd how this chunk of burned wood looks as though it has been ‘designed’ in some way, like a brick wall for example.

First bit of sun, longer than a couple of hours, after what seems like a month of rain and it’s time to get back into the greenhouse and catch up with some planting. Today Michael, I shall be planting Tommy Tomato. Probably the kiss of death for the weather but hey, nature doesn’t wait around.

I saw this seed head on a local European Plane tree, and it reminded me of a massage ball that I had in the bottom of a junk drawer. It never ceases to amaze me the rubbish that my brain retains whilst forgetting the important stuff!

Word to the wise, don’t try and heat up honey in a plastic container in a microwave. My wife has been suffering from a pretty horrendous cough and was trying all sorts of remedies. One of which involved adding pepper to some honey. It did actually help a little. The trouble was, as you can probably see from this picture, the container melted, probably in part due to the honey having such a low melting point. Anyway, not one to waste an opportunity I thought I would have a go at this shot. All done in one take, but with each item supported by fishing wire and removed in post production.

Yesterdays image used a lighting technique called ‘brightfield’. Today’s, with the same object, uses the technique which is called ‘darkfield’.  Here the aim is to photograph the decanter against a dark, or black background as opposed to white. The same rules apply, glass is only defined, visually, by what it reflects.

This time around the lighting takes the opposite approach. Instead of lighting the background, we light the areas that the glass can ‘see’ (reflect) but not the background. The camera lens doesn’t see the light from the source, only that which  is reflected from the decanter edges or facets angled towards it.