In the past few days I have spend all my money on new equipment. I bought the lovely new Elinchrom D4 kit from Gunns. I am a big believer of ‘you have to spend money to make money’, as such I have spent everything I have in the hope that I will make millions within minutes…. – But seriously, I believe this saying but it doesn’t mean you have to spend hundreds. In my opinion it means, you have to be willing to put a bit of money in to make a bit. If you don’t take a chance and buy your first camera, how will you know if you’re going to be a photographer. Then as the years go on and you know this is what you want to do, fork out the money on equipment that’s been well researched, don’t just throw money around!!

Beans for life?!?

This brings me to the photo I took today. It’s what I’ll probably be living on for the next few weeks while I try recoup some money on my investment.

Picture this!

It’s a fine wintry February day, the ground and cars are frozen over in the morning. Then there’s me standing out the back garden with nothing but shorts on.
Some say Stupid, I say fun
Some say lunatic, I say adventurous
Some say brrr, it’s cold!! – I say it’s worth it

It’s all in the name of a great photo. This is the first shot from this batch, I hope to get out the back sometime this weekend to retake the shot, this time I won’t leave till I get the exact shot I have in my head!!! Water isn’t the easiest to work with, I tried tempting it with chocolate and sweets but it was having none of it.

Anybody have any suggestions on how to get water to play nice?

So here they are!

Glad I didn’t drop the camera while travelling 140 down the motorway!!!