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Car boot sale and photography.


posted on 18th of october, 2010
Readers will think there is little connection between the car boot and photography but let me try to persuade you otherwise. There is a car boot sale every Sunday morning in our local football stadium often with 100 sellers offering their surplus goods some at knock down prices. If during the sale it begins to rain some sellers take any offer however small to get rid of the 'stock'.
Some of us at dreamstime use props for still life images and I will now give examples of what I have managed to pick up.

This mini easel only cost £1 but takes a magnetic board allowing me to make images using colorful magnetic letters. Examples include ' Happy Xmas ', an image about identity fraud on the internet and another ' Happy New Year 2011 '. These are only a few examples.
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Posted by Akulamatiau on September 01, 2011
Wow, simple but effective. Thanks David for sharing!
Posted by Wildmac on October 20, 2010
Great ideas! You're port is looking great too :)
Posted by Cmoulton on October 19, 2010
Thanks for the blog, Great ideas and inspiration!



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World wide government budget cuts.


posted on 20th of october, 2010
I normally wouldn't write two blogs in the same month but today the UK Government announced unprecedented cuts in spending. Riots have been going on this week in France about advancing the pension age and quite recently in Greece riots occurred because of austerity measures.
I had been trying to anticipate this situation and creating images to illustrate the situation now taking place.
I will give a few examples.




Among the measures announced to cut borrowing the pension age will increase............. so work longer and contribute more before your happy retirement !.

The banks will be subject to new taxes and bank bonuses cut;


Science has been largely protected from cuts because...

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Posted by Egomezta on October 20, 2010
Great images, I hope you do well with them...
Posted by Rebeccaosborn on October 20, 2010
nice new images, good luck with them!



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