Lazy London Weekend

I think it's been 2 weeks since my last update, I did actually head to Borough Markets on the weekend before last and managed to get a few shots, but I think I'll save those for a rainy day and instead talk about the weekend just passed. On Saturday I headed out to Richmond Park on the weekend to take advantage of the sunshine. Armed only with my 18-200 super zoom (decided it was overkill taking my big boys along for a lazy picnic where there was no guarantee the camera would even find its way out of the bag) I set about seeing what what I could conjure up.

I thought this first photo summed the day up quite nicely. I tried to just go for a very simple shot with a dynamic composition, didn't include anything unnecessary (besides that distraction in the bottom right corner), and went for a bold crop to fill the frame.




Next up we have Josh and Emma, 2 of my favourite models. Josh in particular is always jumping off stuff, climbing things and generally getting himself into photographic situations, one of these day I'm going to make an album and call it Jumping Josh, you mark my words. In this shot Emma was impressing us all with her fleibility, so Josh, not to be outdone, decided to impress us with his athletecism by fly kicking over her. I, of course, was there to document it for the ages.




Seems I'm not the only one who likes taking photos of Josh




To finish things up I'll bring you a collection of tree related portraits. In our fruitless pursuit of deer we decided to take a rest on a log which happened to be lying on the ground. There was a hole in the log which I thought would make a nice frame for a portrait, after my first attempt I insisted everyone there line up and have their portrait done in the same style. People think I'm weird.




Josh in a tree. The lighting was a little tricky here as there were light patches and dark patches. I made Josh look directly in to the sun (no complaints, another reason he's a favourite model!) to make sure his face was well lit and snapped away.




And finally a double tree portrait. Em had had a few wines in the sunshine and was keen to climb as high up the tree as possible, Sensible Simon vetoed the idea on the grounds that he didn't want to have to call an ambulance. In the end it worked out Nicely with Em in the foreground and Josh a slightly blurred monkey in the background. Had 3 shots of this scene that I liked, tough to pick just one but I'll go with this one.



Finally let me experiment with this Picasa slideshow they're touting, let's see if it works......