Spent an enjoyable afternoon at the Chinese New Year celebrations in Birmingham with friends and fellow photography enthusiasts Steve & Lisa. They were there shooting pictures for their college projects, Mel and I were there shooting pictures… just because.

Thats a fearsome dragon mask, kinda. Above image shot on the Lumix LX5, the rest (apart from the last one) were shot on a D80.

Focus! Focus, now if I can just keep this thing steady for a second longer.

Must have been a fashionable event as it drew a fine crowd.

I made various bad dragon related jokes, you know “careful not to ‘Enter the Dragon’, “I was just chasing the dragon”, “the dragons coming back, look it’s the Return of the Dragon”. You get the idea and no, I don’t have any excuses.

Lomo that dragon.

Rocking the square format shooting mode on the Lumix LX5.

An absolutely hectic few weeks with many hours worked over of an evening and weekend and the same amount of time spent on DIY. I didn’t find/make time to get out and take a picture for the third week, so hopefully better late than never I’m posting some pictures taken while on a New Years break in Wales.

4 days of travel including cars, walking, cycling and a steam train so it’s a travel theme. Above is the pick for this week, here’s some other shots of our NYE train journey, including one of an actual, you know, train!

Ran out of time this week, it has been hectic at work and I ended up working evenings and the weekend. Without much time left I tried some softbox lit shots of my guitar. Shot in the bedroom with the binds closed (still wasn’t quite dark enough) I shot a handful of positions with an SB900 firing through a softbox.

The light spilled a little too much on the background (our duvet) with the light  aimed to much at the guitar so I tried feathering the light in some shots. I quickly ran out of time and had to get back to work. Here are some variations using the same setup.