Available Light - My Cottage

When I am doing a photoshoot for Ghost Furniture I always use the available light setting on the camera. It gives me dark, medium and light images to choose from.

Yesterday the sun was shining on a vase of multi-coloured tulips on my dining table so I photographed them wth the same format. I love the results.

Good Enough To Eat

I have always admired the work of the photographer Gemma Comas but these images are good enough to eat.

I Love BIG

The very first time I visited New York I came across a shop called BIG and I loved it. Giant toothbrushes, giant shoes, giant anything. I felt like a Borrower in that shop, sadly it is no longer there so I have to be satisfied with images such as these. Maybe I am just to big for this world. Found at LundLund

Amazing Kids Photography - Nina Say Cheese

Amazing photography indeed. The props are so well thought out in these kids portraits by Nina Say Cheese (what a great name). Totally out of the ordinary.

Fritz Hansen's Image Library

Go and make yourself a coffee and while away your time by visiting the image library of Fritz Hansen, a furniture store in Denmark that sells design classics. There are hundreds of inspirational photographs. I am off back there right now.

Learning New Tricks From Old Dogs

I include myself in this title but the person this post is written about is

Barbara Chandler. Now here is one woman that has her finger on the pulse of the design world in fact it's literally stuck to it. She, like me is no Spring chicken but we both believe, I know this as I have had telephone conversations with her on the subject, that we can impart a plethora of information because we have been there, done that and both of us have the tshirt.

God, we were both there when Biba first started.

I get so annoyed when people my age think it's clever to not embrace new technology, the term Luddite
springs to mind. Things have changed, it's the new industrial revolution and if you don't keep up you will
be left behind. OK so everything isn't perfect and technologies such as automated answer machines and
not speaking to a human being is BAD but unless we are involved and informed we will never have the tools
to try and put it right. It's like arguing with a gag on.

Barbara Chandler moves with the times, she changes direction because she recognises her own capabilities
and basis all her moves on the fact that she is deep down a journalist and always will be and she knows
which path to follow instinctively.

Take a look at the fabulous pieces that are being developed using her amazing pictures of London which she has been taking for many years.

She has also had a book published, Love London, containing 180 photographs from the collection.

Barbara did a fabulous interview over at PopArtRockGirl which is a must read especially for younger
designers who are looking for a direction in which to go. Barbara like myself has had knocks on the way but
we both got back up, dusted ourselves off and started all over again and what we both have in common is
that we are more than happy to share our lessons learned with others. One of the things that amazes me
about Barbara is how she makes every Tweet interesting even with the limited amount of characters
available, she has one up on me there. Is that the journalist in her?

As a footnote: we both agree that we also learn from the young!

Weird Westwood

How weird is this? I found it on Vivienne Westwood's Facebook page. I can't work out what begins where.

I Want Summer Back

Just when I was getting used to Autumn I found these beautiful images by Eva Kyland in Norway. I now want Summer back - WHAT SUMMER? Wasn't very good this year to be honest so I will make do with these pics.

7 Mixing Bowls, a Wooden Jug and Some Tin Books

It's all in the title. I love the way these simple items have been photographed. By the way the Tin Books are storage containers, how clever. All from Chez Zoe who photographs her pieces in her 1740s Captain's Cottage in Sagaponack, New York State.

I Didn't Realise Spilling Paint Could Be So Beautiful

Caught mid spill, fabulous effects. By Shinichi Maruyama

Lay With Me, I'll Lay With You

lay with me i'll lay with you

Could it ever be on earth as it is in heaven?

Apologies for all the samey samey posts. The last three were scheduled on Friday night because of a busy couple of days and a build up of images I wanted to post. I'll try to be more imaginative this week. Hope you're all enjoying the weekend! 

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