Turns out that Santa Claus lives in New England and his name is @nucleo

Genuinely still amazed at his generosity and the generosity that most people on the One More Stop server show eachother.

Once upon a time, I used to mooch around cemeteries more than I probably should and photograph the older graves.

Was going through some old stuff I hadn't really looked at properly and found this. Not sure about everywhere else but there is an abundance of run down and neglected graves even in active cemeteries.

And for some reason I've always been fascinated by them and by who the people may have been.

And if there is another thing that the Coolpix has taught me is to experiment with things I would have never considered.

Because of my very Dusseldorfian leanings when it comes to photography, motion blur is not something I would have ever wanted to use nor had any interest in. But turns out that sometimes it's what is needed for a given shot.

A while back, when I had the time to go out and shoot, I used to take out with me a Nikon Coolpix S7000. I would stick it in my pocket and bring it with me wherever I was going, even if it was to go and get some groceries.

I need to start doing it again because shooting with a digicam was one of the most liberating experiences when it comes to photography. It allowed me to just shoot whatever caught my attention and not care about perfect framing or composition.

As soon as I heard about Alys Tomlinson's project about costumes worn for folk and religious festivals in Italy, I knew I had to back the project.

And I'm very glad to have done so because this arrived today and the portraits (or anthropological studies?) are excellent. Portraits are not usually my thing but this is excellent so if you can, grab a copy!

Been lusting over Architecture of Density for a few years and now I finally have the reprint that came out earlier this year, I'm glad that the work absolutely lived up to my expectations. In some cases wildly exceeded them.

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