ELF (16/07/11)

This is ‘Elf’ as in ‘Elfy Living’.

  A Banana full of orange for breakfast…………………this is Photoshoped and not too well. My orange fell down a bit too far. Nothing wrong with PS…..just me displaying my customary Muppetry. Click for the large version, as always.

Now all the images I post are processed, not as much as the one above………..sometimes more! This morning I posted this………………………..

     And this was what I took…………………………….

     Not too much difference but I prefer the first. I should also wait before banging stuff out. I see the tree on the right has grass growing out of it…..that’s because I was lying down and also because I didn’t notice it first time.

Then I posted this………………………………..

….This was what the camera saw…………………………………………….

       It was pouring with rain……………worse than that but as the synonym also begins with ‘P’ and ends ‘ING’ pouring will do. This was shot at 1/125th, f8, ISO400. Now I could have stopped down a couple of stops and got the foreground in focus but I would have had to bump ISO two stops and with a grey sky That would be asking for noise. I could also have gone back for a tripod and shot twice………..I would have had the corn been ripe. It was raining……………I was lazy………….I know I won’t dissolve so no excuse.

Whilst in the supermarket on Friday I picked up a copy of Digital Photo………….the photograph below is mine the textures are theirs……..I quite like this effect……..look good built into a Christmas card. Better than a duck with ‘Nav Lights’, which, if I remember, is what I offered last year. They did twinkle, even though I did get port and starboard transposed. Had a very red face over that. So did the duck but the wrong side of it’s face! I could work a twinkling light into this.

     Just like Tommy Cooper……………..”Hurrumph and ere is one I found in mi pocket! HA! HA! HA!

On my way back north last week I called to see a gay mate of mine in Sheffield. That’s gay as in ‘Queer as a two speed walking stick’. Not as in ‘Happy’ though he is. Glad I did, he was in his studio shooting ladies bums………that’s fannies to you lot west of me. You folk in the same time zone stick with bums………this was an ART SHOOT! Very interesting, (when I'd recovered my composure), the lighting set up was pretty good. Snoots, Soft boxes, Studio flash all went off at once. His camera is coupled to a lap top……..waste of time the image was blown to hell…………..Supposed to be you PORK! I think that’s what he said…….I definitely heard the ‘P’.

Have a good Sunday.