selfies are hard

 most days I will see someone taking selfies and Instagram is full of them. but how do you take selfies so casually and not have them come out awful, the list of things to keep in mind seems endless, I guess it is part practise and part a numbers game. 

this is the best I could do but the AI still turned it into some gold 

will my underuse photography equipment make me beautiful or hideous

 today I got out my underuse photography equipment to see what I could do. I have a Slave flash, a self-contained flash unit which responds to external triggers. so I set it up to add light to a doll behind me and it mostly worked.

for what was a thrown-together set-up I don't  think it looks too bad the doll is visible but not overlit

now here is what WOMBO's AI turns my photo into with the prompt beautiful than the prompt hideous

man in the mirror

 today just a quick snap in the mirror

and this is what ai did to it using the prompts 

ghost, spectre, phantom man in the mirror

the face of blogmas

 2018 was the last time I posted a blog 25 blogmas it is time to resurrect this tradition. 

this year I will be focusing on my face. I have never been one to focus too much on my appearance and so maybe it is time to push myself 25 self-portraits (mostly photographs) to add more fun I will use www.wombo.art to see what artificial intelligence can make of my face

return of the duck

in between the jobs that need doing i am still finding time to play with dolls. today i had a bit of a photo shoot with the duck head doll out in the garden, this photo is available on 26 products in my redbubble shop

funny looking bird

photographed this funny looking bird on the bird feeder today

bathroom window

yesterday i posted a drawing so today i have switched art forms to photography. so this is photo of my bathroom window

arrested for crime he didn't commit, i guess

is a picture is worth a thousand words?

This month I have been trying to up my word count in these here blog post of mine. it had been going OK well OK-ish up until last week

Tuesday's post was good hitting both my lower and upper target. But the rest of the week was a bit of a bust when it came to blogging. I just could not find anything to say. I did however get my camera out and take some photos and made my weekly video (it should be up tomorrow)

the first thing to catch my eye was this

a very urban chic industrial bedstead. Spotted under the M25 which I think makes it a desirable pad for the high rolling metropolitan elite

next up is some urban wildlife photography

OK urban wild death photography may be more accurate

this tragic photo was taken under a different bridge just down the canal from the industrial urban chic des res. This pigeon appears to be living (if you can call it living) in a  post apocalyptic wasteland where corpses are strung up as a warning to stay away.

Unless a picture is worth a thousand words I thing I am going to find it too hard to reach my goals. So from now on I think I will just track my word count and try not to backslide.

bug out bunny

here is a photo of a bunny i found in my mum's garden who i have named bug out bunny because he looks like he has been in a nuclear blast

smoking and weeds (new t-shirt)

i know i have not blog in bit because sometimes life happens but sometimes t-shirt design themselves so here is smoking and weeds just a quick photo that look great on a t-shirt. 

i will try my best not to leave it so long next time

dirty old chair

 found this dirty old chair under theM25 will have to do something with the photos but i don't know what yet

Byford house

bellamy road

here is a new print it's called bellamy road 

photo taken Ballamy road cheshunt

hello little guy

 when walking from waltham cross to tottenham hale i spotted this little guy and had to take a photo

view from university college hospital

my dad has just come out of hospital this is the view he had of london from the 10th floor

illuminati get ready for springwatch

bbc's springwatch start today i it looks like the illuminati may be tuning in because i spotted this eye of providence carving in a bird watching hide.

we did it (illuminati)

cheap flasher in Harlow

i have new (well new to me) flash of my camera (well it work on my camera) for the princely sum of £1. 50 which compared to over £200 of a proper olympus flash i think you will agree is some saving
ok it don't do every thing the new ones do but it flash and it's head pivots which are my primary needs and thats not bad for £1.50 from a Harlow charity shop!

ps. by now  you should  know i don't miss an opportunity to try and get you to  buy a t-shirt  so i'll just say
i think this t-shirt is a bargain too

10 green bottles 5

10 green bottles 5

i said we were going to be joined by an old face

and here is head 

who first appeared on my blog on the 17th October 2008

 and has her own sections in my redbubble and zazzle shops 

here are some of her best bits

first appearance

cool skateboard

modeled t-shirt 

appeared in a comic

take it for red

take it for red

make tea not war

make tea not war 2