Early morning in Wales

Last week travelling to an assignment a beautiful morning surprised me.

A picture of me

I was out in Notting hill on a job last week when I spotted this scene:

I signalled to the girl who was drawing in the window to ask her if it was okay for me to photograph her. She nodded and started drawing something new underneath the design she had been working on:

Soon it became clear...

...that she was drawing me taking pictures of her.

Me with a camera instead of a face.:) A really lovely moment. Thanks Pip. (I went in and spoke to her)

Day of the Triffids

Last week I helped my friends Kila & Rusharc with a photoshoot in a greenhouse for Carnivorous plants. I drove them to Hampshire Carnivorous Plants near Southampton and while they did their elaborate still life set ups among the insect eaters I entertaine myself by taking some polaroids.  Most of these plants we were told originate from the southern United States and need heat and humidity. It's very hot and sticky in those greenhouses!

Kila & Rusharc at work.

California

Here are some of my photos from a recent trip to California.

 

 

After many many years: Downtown L.A. again.

 

Much has changed there in the nine years since I last was in L.A. but some thing, like this shop window are still much the same.

 

One morning in the hill on the way to Santa Barbara.

 

Castroville, just south of Santa Cruz is the world capital of artichokes apparently. The artichoke festival with floats and an Artichoke Queen is in May. I'd love to come back for that some time.

The Golden Gate Bridge in the San Francisco mist.

Thomas Braun

I just came accross this photograph of my father. He came to visit me and we took a one week trip to Cornwall last February; a sort of as a 70th birthday present to him. I took this picture of him on the beach in West Bay near Bridport in Dorset on the way down.

In Paddington

I was doing some location photography for a commission around Paddington yesterday. Here's my favourite of the day:

Lisboa

It had been too long since I had been in Lisbon...

Valerio Vidali http://vivavidali.blogspot.com/ made this drawing at Célia's place.

Caracois e um senhor no Cais do Sodré.