Jonathan Gazeley

Some water gathered and froze in a canvas furniture cover. The block of ice was too heavy and too slippery to lift, so naturally my brother and I smashed it.

And here’s a close-up of the end result.

This is another portrait of Hana, along the same lines as many I’ve done before.

But this time, inspired by Stu’s recent challenge entry, I had a go at lighting the background with a coloured flash.

It’s OK, but the LCD on my camera isn’t very good and since looking at the photo on my PC, there are many things I’d change.

I was aiming for a half-lit face but I hadn’t expected the entire face and shoulders to come out so dimly. Unfortunately that’s as many photos as I’m allowed to take today.

Unless I come up with something better by Tuesday, this will be my entry into this week’s photo challenge – “pictures of people“.

I took this photo for this week’s Photo Challenge, on the theme of Light & Darkness.

It’s an unusually opaque bottle of wine (Fragolino, actually) backlit by a softbox. The camera was moved slightly to one side to pick up some of the reflection on the side of the bottle.

The annoying mark on the background is a wrinkle where the fabric of my softbox sags because the frame isn’t exactly square. Never mind. You could say it adds character.

Yes, it’s a boring shot of some felt tip pens in their packet. But I love how the rainbow colours line up!

It’s also a really fancy packet, where the lid folds round and clicks into place as a stand, to hold the pens in this position. This appeals to my geek side.

The other night, I saw a strange cloud formation at a weather front forming around sunset. I rushed to get my camera to capture it before it disappeared. The result of my haste is a pretty poor picture of a weather front, but I like it because of the way the fish eye lens curves the street.

Shame I also left it in automatic mode – the dark areas are quite noisy.

I took this photo for the Photo Challenge theme of Home. I’ve published it belatedly here.