Random photographs

Photography has always been a part of my life.  I had a number of cameras when I was a child, my favorite being an old wind-up camera that allowed me to experiment with images.  I'd rewind the film to get double exposures and make notes on settings so when the film was developed I'd know what settings worked and what didn't.

Of course photography is a completely different animal today.  The instant nature of digital photography means that everyone is a potential photographer.  Or are they?  I'm constantly amazed at peoples inability to take even the simplest photograph with basic images not being suitably framed, motion blurred and out of focus.  Hmmm maybe I do have something after all...

Spring has sprung!

Ah after months and months of snow, ice, rain, wind and plummeting temperatures I think we can finally say that Spring has arrived.  It's my favorite time of year - a time when it's not too hot, yet warm an when the sun is shining and everything comes back to life.  As a contrast my wife prefers Autumn and the colors that the season brings (I say it's just the season when everything is dying, but hey...).

Apart from Reece's new found attitude and somewhat testing nature the kids seem to be going through a great stage.  It's so nice to say that too as everyone must think that all we do is moan about Lincoln's ailments.  But trust me, live a week in our life over the last 2 years and you'd start complaining too!  So yes, as the plants and animals come out of their winter hibernation so are the kids and it's lovely.

Reece currently goes to school at Sompting Abbotts.  It's a private school with fantastic grounds but we've been feeling for a while that as he gets older it's not going to be the right school for him, or indeed his brother.  So we took the opportunity of visiting Shoreham College on Friday with Reece and Lincoln.  Neither of them wanted to go until we arrived, then they both fell in love with the place.  It's a beautiful school with incredible facilities.  Our visit was certainly helped by the beautiful weather but you couldn't help feeling that we'd have still loved it even on the dreariest of days.  So now it's just a question of when to move...

Work trudges on.  My work at Spicer International seems a constant up hill battle.  The problem with that business is that there is never any let up.  Even if you've had a good month there's no time to celebrate as the new month is upon you with all the pressures that brings.  My business at RiE-Store is starting to gain momentum (you can read our latest news here) with the start of our restoration work on a 1941 Buick Woody.  It's a nervous excitement as there's a lot of money to find (personally) but an even greater reward at the end of the day.  I've also been finishing the design of the JRJ Custom Services website and designing a magazine advert which is due out this month.  Hopefully that will bring us in some money to help pay for the restoration work.  Or that's the plan anyway.