Nice and UnNice . . . .

These two shots where taken later on in the day when the girls were getting restless and their attention span was beginning to fade, which made it a bit harder to get the right settings and the right actions / facial expressions from them.

In these photos I wanted to have the juxtaposition of the cute petty model with the tatty, rusty background.

Liu Bolin

35-year-old Liu Bolin, from Shandong, China, manages to camouflage himself in any surroundings, no matter how difficult they might be. He works on a single photo for up to ten hours!

He says his art is a protest against the actions of the Chinese Goverment, who shut his studio down in 2005, I say its flipping genius !!!!

Hollow Ponds

These photos where taken five minutes away from my house at a place called Hollow Ponds. Really I went over there to just mess around with a borrowed 450D and get some practice in an extremely sunny environment, it was a very hot and bright day. I played about a lot with shutter speed, aperture, iso's and focus settings ect. to try and get a good mix to create correctly light shots. It was actually quite difficult not to over expose certain areas whilst under exposing others.

Here we mostly have close ups of some foliage, I really like the photos of the due on the grass you get some interesting shapes and re-fractions of the light in the droplets.