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[Advent Calendar] Day 1

I have this awesome advent calendar, purchased by my excellent wife.

Behind door number one is a pirate. I feel like I should be less surprised.

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6Sushi in the park.

You can get vegetarian sushi, which is pretty awesome. I never had sushi before; the idea of raw fish didn’t appeal. The idea of raw vegetables and sticky rice definitely does, though.

Lovely, quiet sit in the (now-funded!) St. James’ Park before walking to work with Charlotte.

Unused.

Our sushi.

Bench

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A-wanderin’ Worcester

Went for a cool little wander in Worcester this morning. It’s been ages since I took my camera out properly. I’ve been saving loads of inspiration to a photo collection on a new site I’m working on and I think it’s really doing me some good! I love the every-day subjects you get in those slightly washed-out film photos. There’s nothing monumental going on, it’s just every day and I like that!

Old-skool-bike (by jaspertandy)

Stained-glass (by jaspertandy)

Church (by jaspertandy)

Some building (by jaspertandy)

Charlotte is as tall as the flood was in 1948.

As tall as the flood in 1948 (by jaspertandy)

I found my first abandoned area. It’s pretty scary wandering round somewhere—especially when you hear someone leg it when you shout.

Urbex Virginity (by jaspertandy)

Urbex Virginity (by jaspertandy)

Urbex Virginity (by jaspertandy)

Urbex Virginity (by jaspertandy)

Urbex Virginity (by jaspertandy)

Urbex Virginity (by jaspertandy)

Urbex Virginity (by jaspertandy)

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An afternoon and an evening

Today, I discovered that I would heartily welcome a camera with better ISO-handling. I’m starting to think about switching up my shopping list order from 14-24, D700 to D700, 14-24. First, I need to buy a house.

Today, she also spent some time trying to get comfy enough to sleep on mortgage paperwork.

Cats sit on the funniest things (by jaspertandy)

The animal pose (by jaspertandy)

unimpressed by bright flash (by jaspertandy)

super impressed by bubbles! (by jaspertandy)

an unscheduled attack (by jaspertandy)

I took a few potentially really nice photos around the hospital, but the noise totally ruined what I was going for. This was the only one with enough ambient light to drown it out.

/need/ a D3 (by jaspertandy)

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2Steps to having the best wife:

Me: Sorry I didn’t help out with the housework this afternoon
Charlotte: That’s OK; you had something you needed to do
Me: What was that?
Charlotte: You wanted to watch the basketball
Me: PROFIT

So, there you have it. Somehow, I have managed to convince Charlotte that a game of the playoffs that’s like 2 weeks old is important enough that it takes precedence over housework.

Either I’m an evil genius, or she’s great.

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SC-29

If you’re wondering how I feel about my latest purchase, my SC-29 off-camera-flash-enabler, it looks a little like this:

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If you’re wondering how Charlotte feels about it (and, indeed any other photography-related purchase I make), it looks something like this:

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CLS is awesome, and and off-camera master gives you so much more freedom to experiment with shadows than using the built-in pop-up as the master. I am very pleased, and will be overusing this greatly in the near future. See more from this evening’s photoshoot at flickr.

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1331: birthday girl

331: birthday girl

It’s Charlotte’s birthday today! I’m marking it by sucking all the novelty out of these birdseye-view square crops.

365:365 birthday Charlotte

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326: my impression of Vincent

326: my impression of Vincent

I don’t think Charlotte is going to be pleased about my drawing a line between her and a Final Fantasy character.

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4323: disgusting habits

323: disgusting habits

We all have them. Some more than others.

365:365 Charlotte custard food gross

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314: easter bunny

314: easter bunny

She didn’t even take the wrapper off.

365:365 Charlotte chocolate easter

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