Tick tock tick tock the beauty of time

I haven't shot still life for a while so I grabbed the opportunity to get a hand on a beautiful Hilfiger watch (thank you Pascal !). I recently found a cute mini clock in the euro shop Tiger which is my new found treasure, all sorts of fun items with great designs, flashy colours and little prices.

You nearly wish your camera sensor & your lense weren't that good when you see all the spots & dust barely visible to the human eye you get in the pictures, from working with Trevor Hart on the Craft Council of Ireland product library, I learnt to polish and re polish products whether I could humanly see any dust, but unfortunately when the dust is inside the product, that's an extra bit of work for Photoshop !
I just love the precision required to light these small but subtle objects.

A landscape which made me cry

Surfing through websites & images, you get into this zone that doesn't have time or space, you're in there, jumping from link to link. How I came across these series of images called European Battlefields by Peter Hebeisen, where wars had been fought, I do not remember. But my eyes became watery when this particular image appeared, as if unearthing a deep old feeling in me. It's just such a delicate, sensitive, beautiful composition, in an understated magical moment of the day.
There's such a delicate balance in life, from tragedies to joy, beauty to horror. These series really give me the desire to go out there and enjoy & capture all the beauty around. Hopefully I ll get to see these prints one day !

Copyright Peter Hebeisen

Mireia

Actress Mireia came to my studio recently. We did a few set ups including an outdoor one. Best of luck to her in her career, she certainly has a vibrant personality and a lovely character that will bring her a long way !