A few old shots (boystown)

 These were taken years back, some have been posted before but as we're still locked down and I'm running out of fresh stuff  I'll bung up a few of these.
 FYI this boystown near Aberthaw Power Station was used in the last series of doctor who.

Todays pics July 4th

 A few more for today.

Todays bonus flower pic (phone)

Shot on my iphone. Still not sure about the iphone, everything seems designed to be difficult or awkward. Buggered if I can find the camera image size/quality options on it.  So this is what you get. I think it's the default whatever that is, small files size anyway.

Todays pics (a few old ones) July 3rd

 Newquay in Wales. Taken a good few years ago.

Will wedding photography ever be the same again?

 I was checking through the various regulations for weddings.  It looks like they have changed forever.
 Gone are the big weddings we're used to, 150 people crammed into a reception, the slow smoochie dance at the end of the night and the best men snogging anything they can get hold of... including each other (it's ok I'm broadminded)
 Now it looks like small weddings with well spaced receptions when they are allowed.
 Couples will have to wash their hands before exchanging rings. Good luck with that, half the churches dont have running water, besides it makes no sense as the vast majority of couples tying the knot are already living together anyway.
 To be honset most of the rules and regulations regarding covid safety seem to have been dreamed up by bored advarks with no common sense or real world experience.
 Take hairdressing, you have to wash the hair before cutting it to remove any covid, but after cutting you cant dry the hair as that can blow the covid  around the room... thats the covid you already washed off before starting   Yes pure logic and government are strangers who have never met.
 Same with visiting grandparents, you can visit one set but not the other, yet you can shop with a 100 strangers...
 Back to weddings, as a wedding photographer with more years than I care to mention I cant really see weddings working too well for photographers in the near future.
 You see contary to most people belief smaller weddings are harder to do.  It's easy to get 500 nice pics from a 12 hour wedding with 200 people in a lovely location with gardens, much harder from a wedding with 25 people and just a 20 minute registry office service coming out into a council car park. Yet the couple still want a nice album.

Todays pics July 2nd

 A few for today. These are the last of this batch.

Weird stuff still happening.

 I was looking for my ground-sheet today, and it was bloody mising!
 Maybe I'd better explain.  For ages now I've carried a small ground-sheet in my camera bag.  This 3 x 6 foot piece of sturdy vinyl type material has really good insulating properties (I've laid on it on freezing concrete in november and been fine) it's also something dry to sit on if the grounds damp.
 The main important use though is to put on things for a bride to sit on to keep her dress clean, sometimes we'll pose a bride on an old tree, or bench, these can be dirty or wet.
 Anyway today I was swopping kit from bag to bag and the "half" piece I carry in my small camera bag had gone missing. I tried a few other bags I swop around depending on kit, no joy, then I started the search.  Eventually I find missing groundsheet in a gas mask bag (the gas mask I was wearing on my march 24th blog post).
 Now I know what your thinking.  The wally put it there while out taking the pics in march.  And a fine obvious answer except....  I've used it a good few times since then and haven't used the gas mask since the pics for the blog just before lockdown.  Now I know the worlds gone bonkers but even I wont walk around with the bloody gas mask on,  well not unless things get a lot worse. 
 So if I haven't used the gas mask since march, and I've used the ground-sheet recently... how the hell did it get in the bloody gas mask bag?
 Bloody poltergeist.