Sunday Lunch

And the carafe with a white Croatian wine was put on the side on top of a supplement of 'The Independent' newspaper. 

The wine was rather good and the distortions were worth a photograph.

Concertina Book

I know that I take several hundred photographs every year - this last year about 1200. Every so often I wonder what to do with them. I am loath to delete very many because I know that not only can the initial love of a photograph wane with time, in retrospect one or two initial 'unconsidered trifles' have much greater merit than I first think.

Viewing photos on a monitor isn't always satisfactory because it restricts who can view. So I have a website. That's fine but I'm restricted in any description I want to add. I'm a member of Rangefinderforum which provides immediate viewing but there are obvious restrictions in that sort of medium.

What are the alternatives? 
One is the published book format. I use this through 'Blurb Books' when I have a considerable number of pictures, say 50 -60, I would like to have in a printed form. 
Somehow this isn't quite enough.

I have nearly 20 pictures on the theme of 'Boxes' that I would like to see presented together. My current idea is to display these in a concertina type book. These are available commercially mainly for artists using watercolour, crayon, pen and pencil. They tend to be a little pricey, not necessarily just the right size or allow for the inclusion of insertions within their construction - they just get too fat when you stick in pictures.

The answer then is for me to make my own book.

Pictured is the basis for the illustrated cover - flap, front, spine, back, and end flap. I am adding a small white panel on the left hand end to contain the title. 
Subject came from a pile of cardboard boxes stacked in the garage!

Construction continues despite lengthy interruptions!
I wonder if when I finish I will say 'Never Again'?
More to follow in another Blog?

Local Craft Fair

There are Craft Fairs and there are Craft Fairs!

Some are quite enormous with stall after stall offering a variety of goods that you could never have imagined in your wildest dreams!

Our local ones are in the hall of the now closed village school. Held two or three times a year the latest was an obvious precursor for Christmas. Many stall holders are regular attenders as is their stock. But this time a new-comer was offering these book like creations 

'IMAGINE' indeed.

I thought that the detail made an interesting photograph.

It certainly reveals a little more of the complexity of the folding of the paper - all done by hand, no helping jig here, I was assured.

I gather that stall sales were hardly encouraging so perhaps it's a case of once seen and then ' Never Again'.

At the diner table

The first part of dinner is eaten.

The serving pot needs to be cleared away.

Then you spot the 'dribbles' on the side!

The light isn't very good so you move the still warm pot to the worktop.

You grab your camera - focus, take a quick photo.

With a little inevitable cropping this is the result.

Certainly different!

Can this be repeated?

No - never again!