Today, I wanted to create an abstract, moody forest effect using remote flash.
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I’ve recently started noticing limitations of my camera equipment. I resolved a while ago to not buy anything major, camera-wise because it was really difficult to justify. The distinct lack of funds made it substantially easier, but justification remained relevant. It’s quite cool that I’m now able to say that my skill/experience behind a camera means that I could now easily justify 2 new lenses – one wide, one long. Be it ironic or not, these are both of the lenses that I wanted before I decided not to buy!
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These guys come and try to convince us all we’re condemned. I’m sure they’re really nice people. This guy was so elated, he started singing. Pretty snazzy.

I spent just over £400 today. I did manage to get a load of stuff, including my wedding outfit (yes, I’m going to look awesome!) so it’s not all bad, but I could do with having spent no pounds.

I threw the filter from the hoover away – my timing couldn’t be better.

I don’t read the news. I don’t know anything about economics and I don’t know anything about US politics. I couldn’t pick out Joe Biden in a line-up and the only thing that frustrates me about the recession is that the media has turned it into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Until yesterday, I haven’t really been affected by the current financial crisis. Sure, I noticed the price of stuff going up, but we switched our energy supplier and petrol appears to have lost about 20p a litre so it’s been a relative plateau for me – my funds have just leaned more towards food shopping than energy/fuel. Yesterday, however, it seems that the pending recession (I don’t even know if we’re actually in a recession now – we could be!) took its toll on the awesome agency I work for. It wouldn’t be fair of me to go into details of the whys and wherefores (largely because it’d be mostly speculation), but the upshot is that in a month today, I’ll be jobless.
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