This:

Just blows me away. And gives me ideas. Of course, I don't think I'm going to have access to Cate Blanchett or Lily Cole any time soon, but ideas nonetheless. The main thing it tells me though is that, next time I have a crazy idea, I shouldn't dismiss it.

A lolly, or a portal to another dimention?
Originally uploaded by zoetica

Via Warren "I am a plague wearing human skin" Ellis.

See that? That's the kind of stuff I want to do. Bring on 2010.

Aha, so the Starbucks opposite Richmond station does have wi-fi. It's just the one further down the road that is made entirely out of fail.

Stream-of-consciousness tumblogging again this morning as I'm about to head off for day two of Bert's workshop. Today we're going to be shooting in and around Richmond's parks, archways and alleyways, trying to put into practice what we learned yesterday (but possibly without Paris or the horse's head). Later on we might be headed to Canary Wharf, assuming that the bureaucratic gods have been placated.

I'm feeling astoundingly creative at the moment. I wrote a poem and two story outlines on the train back from Waterloo to Richmond last night (so much more comfortable than the tube). I wonder what it is about London that makes my brain work this way.

Anyway, caffeine has been consumed. I'm off to shoot some frames. Might upload some frames tonight (I've been shooting RAW, but I figured that RAW+basic would allow me to show off before doing any editing, which, let's face it, isn't exactly what a netbook screen was designed for).

Okay, so that wasn't as tumblr-ish as I expected. Must do better next time. 

I've been getting more and more serious about this photography lark for quite a while now, and one of the sites that I've been enjoying most is that of Belgian pro photographer Bert Stephani, particularly his video series Confessions of a Photographer.

Today, Bert and his friend Pieter Van Impe have announced their new project "by photographers, for photographers:" LIME, which stands for Learn, Inspire, Motivate and Experience. The site, www.squeezethelime.com, contains articles (well, just one at the moment), videos and links to photo sets on the LIME project's Flickr photostream. There's also details there about upcoming workshops that Pieter and Bert will be running in 2009. Whilst these seem a bit pricey (Bert's I've seen the light all day workshop has a special introductory price of €180 inc VAT, plus whatever the cost of travelling to the venue in Belgium) I'm sure they're worthwhile; I may even contemplate attending one of them myself.

Aspiring pro photographers (me included) might do well to take a look at LIME; I suspect it's going to produce some really cool stuff and I'm really looking forward to what comes out of it.