Posts Tagged ‘gizmo’

Anyone who knows me, knows that I have a long standing series of photographs staring a Gremlins ‘Gizmo’ plush toy, and a few (growing) number of friends. Looking out at the melting snow a few February’s ago, I thought “what I should have done is get Gizmo a Santa hat, take some pictures of him in the snow, and make it my custom Christmas card” for the coming Christmas. That single thought gradually built up through the year until I ended up finishing off with a full nativity scene of them and the following year wasn’t much more sensible when I had them as Santa & Reindeers.

Well I’m happy to say it doesn’t get any more sensible this year, because this year we had a huge snow fall in Feb, and, I already had Santa hats for them, and I had a day off to go up into the peaks to find some snow the kids hadn’t, so this years cards will be loosely based around…

Gizmo & Furby in the Show

Also like to make a special mention to Moo Printing at this point, as they’ve been through their printers twice trying to get the colours right on the cards, as I’d managed to select some text (the cards will have Merry Xmas on them) that CMYK printing really doesn’t like.

Fingers crossed the next batch will be bang on, and cards should be landing on some peoples door mats soon.

On Oct 14th 1066, King Harold was defeated during the Battle of Hastings by William the Conqueror. What’s that got to do do with the photoblog? Well it’s just a twist on how my mind works, back in January when out trialling the new macro lens I found some conkers

New Beginnings

nothing too unusual there, but then my mind puts the ‘twisted cousin’ together with William the Conqueror. Quick bit of research says this is months away, so pockets a handful of conkers and puts them into the props for later pile. Last night I finally got round to actually putting the shot together, which is lucky, as otherwise I’d have had to save them for another year again. So here we have

William the Conkeror