Champagne Life
Champagne Garden
This is a series of images I wanted to share with my post entitled "How to Unwrap Christmas". They didn't quite fit with the colourful images of that blog post and I don't like overwhelming readers with bad images, so I thought I'd split them across two posts. As is typical with not blogging about images as soon as you're done importing and processing them, in my memory, scenes from the occasion seem to vanish which makes writing about them a challenge to put it mildly. This top image always makes me think of champagne and the styling is a deliberate attempt to hint at that, without shoving it in your face.
If Wishes Were Filthy Cars
So while viewing these images may well be the lowlight of your photography experience this week, I can at least point you to the highlight of mine. BBC 4 aired a documentary called "America in Pictures: The Story of Life Magazine" last night. It was hosted by Rankin and although I was skeptical before I started watching it, I was soon put at ease by the sight of a Leica camera. It was actually a very good documentary as Rankin tracked down some of the photographers who used to work for Life magazine and they were very candid and open about what it was like working in an era where getting a gig shooting film for Life magazine turned you into a celebrity. Some of the most iconic images of the 20th century were shot by photographers working for Life magazine, and I'd be lying if I said Life's black and white images of Marilyn Monroe weren't a strong influence in me picking up a camera and choosing to shoot black and white most of the time. There's something timeless about black and white. It removes some of the clues I guess.
Working Hard
Gramps
