365/12 - Day 23 - Light refreshments

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I was given this bottle of Gold Cuvee, sparkling white wine with edible gold flakes, as a leaving present from a project with Royal Mail that I had been working on. The neat thing about this wine is that the 22 carat gold flakes float in the wine and take a good minute or so to settle.... You will see why that's useful in a second. Clearly the interesting thing for me, apart from the emotional sentiment, in all these photos was the lighting. I was modelling and creating a version of reality, shaping the world around with some very simple lighting techniques.

Where as this is still not "true reality", as the flash and umbrella have been placed there, this IS possible in terms of physics, this is not an imaginary PhotoShop world. Having said that I'm also not reporting the real world, I'm creating/visualising an idea or picture in my head in the real world. I'm Telling a story.

Before you read further, see if you can work out where the lights are.

365/12 - Day 10 - Music will save the world

Another out-of-the-ordinary photo, sometimes you just have to go with what you've got! This is from a live gig, so the lighting is also "live". I had the 580exII onboard, but on this shot its off. So this really is available light, albeit stage lighting.

Straying away from my normal self obsessed photos, this is from the last ever gig of "Vent" with their Guitarist Richard Ashworth taking the lime light here. Sometimes you need to put the flashes down and just enjoy yourself, it was a brilliant evening with good music and good friends.